Reply to: Where's Your Motor Been

[Hobosapien]

If only there was a similar site for women. Might save a few divorces...

Facebook?

Depends if you dare see if a future prospect is or was a duck-facer. That is why the site is called what it is.

[BrilloPad]

If only there was a similar site for women. Might save a few divorces...

[Hobosapien]

The people who ended up with one of my old cars stopped MOTing it.

Ditto. Just checked what happened to my old Lotus Elise I should have kept, and it's not been MOTed since 2012. Looks like same owner for 6 years to then and they only put 3.5k miles on it over those 6 years.

If it's not dead it must be feeling neglected after I put around 23k on it in 18 months and took it all over the place for various trackdays.

[SueEllen]

Just used that site to track my old Alfa, which is 11. Still on the road, but now up near Aberdeen.

The people who ended up with one of my old cars stopped MOTing it.

[WTFH]

Just used that site to track my old Alfa, which is 11. Still on the road, but now up near Aberdeen.

[northernladyuk]

You might know, but MoT testing is only done by government run test centres. It's know to be a stiffer than the rest of the UK and it's pass or fail - there are no advisories.

Fermanagh is nice, but Down wins.

[The_Equalizer]

And with no available MOT check, just like the rest of Ireland and Germany.

Actually, I had a lovely drive through Fermanagh yesterday. Pity it was pissing down as it looked stunningly beautiful. Will have to return.

You might know, but MoT testing is only done by government run test centres. It's know to be a stiffer than the rest of the UK and it's pass or fail - there are no advisories.

Fermanagh is nice, but Down wins.

[northernladyuk]

which in turn is part of the British Isles

Which is in turn part of Europe.

[northernladyuk]

Geographically, yes, but it's a whole different world 'in the North'.

And with no available MOT check, just like the rest of Ireland and Germany.

Actually, I had a lovely drive through Fermanagh yesterday. Pity it was pissing down as it looked stunningly beautiful. Will have to return.

[SueEllen]

Slightly off topic. A couple of years ago I was going to buy a used car at a showroom. I asked if they could and new one year MOT on it. They agreed. I came back in the afternoon and magically they had got a new MOT from a garage five miles away without putting any extra mileage on the odometer. I did not buy it.

You know loads of dodgy people.

[The_Equalizer]

Glad you now recognise that Northern Ireland is a part of Ireland.

Geographically, yes, but it's a whole different world 'in the North'.

[The_Equalizer]

Times are hard with Brexit looming.

Or you have an aversion to eye-watering depreciation.

[stek]

which in turn is part of the British Isles

And the CTA, which is gonna drive a huge hole in the Brexit hard border talks cos it trumps the EU, even though it has no basis in law, it's part of the fabric, makes it even harder to get rid off...

[Paddy]

Slightly off topic. A couple of years ago I was going to buy a used car at a showroom. I asked if they could and new one year MOT on it. They agreed. I came back in the afternoon and magically they had got a new MOT from a garage five miles away without putting any extra mileage on the odometer. I did not buy it.

[stek]

Last time I was in Farnworth, it hadn't changed much.

Most Boltonians are actually Farnworthians, having been born in the (now Princess Anne) Maternity Unit at Townleys (now Bolton General), which is geographically in Farnworth not Bolton.

Both my brothers born there, whereas I was born at Heaton Grange Maternity home which was near Overdale Crem., off Chorley New Road.

Alan Ball, Hilda Baker, Frank Finlay all famous Farnworthians. My dad always told me Sir Frank Whittle was from Farnworth but it's not true. Another in the string of lies he told me when I was a nipper, like Spaghetti is made from worms (still can't eat it), and the long flower beds in the roads around the Town Hall are giant's graves (still can't walk on them or even step over them).