Making the move to digital for training logs
Making the move to digital for training logs
Chris Price discusses the move to digital for training logs and how testers need to record their annual training going forwards.
How insecure does a battery have to be before it should be failed?
The battery must be so insecure such that it is unrestrained and likely to fall from its vertical position when the vehicle is in its presented condition (i.e. bonnet / access panels closed).
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency – does the name change affect your business?
Many of you may already have heard that VOSA and DSA are now merging and will be replaced with the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency – DVSA. There will be a gradual introduction of the new agency name ahead of the formal launch in April.
Horror story: New shoes
This is one for the motorcyclists out there – sent in by Daren Butler of Jim Aim Motorcycles, North Essex. Daren told us ”When testing this Kawasaki ER-5, the rear drum brake did not feel right and it locked on …
Horror story: An extra spring
Notice anything different about the rear of this Ford Fiesta Courier? Surely this vehicle usually has a torsion bar suspension. Andy Black of ABs MOTs in Penrith sent us this photo of a courier they had in for test. Apparently …
Diesel particulate filter check now required as part of MOT test
Tests for diesel cars and heavy vehicles are to be tightened up to ensure vehicles have a critical exhaust filter if one had originally been fitted as standard, Roads Minister Robert Goodwill has announced. Garages and testing stations will check …
Changes made to brake imbalance calculation
The brake imbalance calculation on MOT Computerisation will be amended from 15 December 2013. It will then be calculated using the maximum service brake efforts, unless lowest effort locks the wheel.
Video: How to carry out a brake performance test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFpGwZMoIuYA number of changes have been made in 2013 to the brake performance test. Here we have provided a detailed video and a supporting set of instructions on how to correctly carry out the brake performance test.
Help your customers prepare their vehicles for winter
A Highways Agency survey has found that almost half of motorists in England don’t even carry out the most basic of checks on their vehicle before winter sets in. The Highways Agency have produced a poster for you to promote these services to your customers.
Video series: MOT site assessments
The MOT site assessment is one of the MOT scheme tools to make sure that the vehicles on our roads are safe. This series of videos covers all the areas that a garage needs to know about the MOT site assessment.
A day in the life of a Vehicle Examiner
Martin Garlick has been a Vehicle Examiner (VE) in the Manchester area for 11 years. He served his time performing truck and bus maintenance and repair, has driven both types of vehicle professionally and fitted tachographs and speed limiters before …