|
|
Post Reply 
|
Page 12> |
| Author | |
sleeper 
Really Senior Member II 
Original and STILL best Joined: 26-March-2004 Location: East Sussex/Kent border Status: Offline Points: 2098 |
 Post Options
 Thanks(0)
 Quote Reply
 Topic: IMPORTANT! DVLA up to no goodPosted: 06-April-2006 at 04:42 |
|
Check this out - this looks like it will affect most of us, especially all the track day boys...
Edited by sleeper |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Sponsored Links | |
|
|
|
Doive
Really Senior Member II
Joined: 09-February-2005 Location: Clinging to a turbine, Hexham Status: Offline Points: 1212 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 07:31 |
|
I don't modify my car at all, but seriously object to this abuse of our freedom. What is wrong with someone who fits an aftermarket steering wheel to their car? How much control does this system want?! I wonder is this a government directive which has been passed down the chain of command? I'll get my opposition off to the DVLA blitzkriegfuerhers as soon as I can.
|
|
|
1987 BMW 525e Lux Auto (sadly deceased)
Get Firefox - Ditch Hopeless Inertnet Exploder www.doive.co.uk 
|
|
|
|
|
NOISUFNOC
Really Senior Member II
Joined: 27-September-2004 Location: Sunny Greenock by the Sea Status: Offline Points: 1473 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 07:33 |
|
Doive relies on transit vans to modify his cars for him, wonder if car shortening will be covered.
|
|
|
528 for now
|
|
|
|
|
Doive
Really Senior Member II
Joined: 09-February-2005 Location: Clinging to a turbine, Hexham Status: Offline Points: 1212 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 07:37 |
|
It's a cheap way of getting a whole new look! Just think, the fire brigade could have made me a convertible.
|
|
|
1987 BMW 525e Lux Auto (sadly deceased)
Get Firefox - Ditch Hopeless Inertnet Exploder www.doive.co.uk
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Fenwick
Bavarian-Board Contributor 
Joined: 27-August-2003 Location: Lost somewhere in time... Status: Offline Points: 6484 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 07:38 |
|
The DVLA are a useless bunch of idiots and every single employee deserves to be taken out into the street and kicked to death. Every single one of my experiences with them has been bad. This si just typical of the kind of cr*p they come up with. I wonder how much this 'super' MOT test will cost? Possibley a new way of generating revenue. Taxing modifed cars . |
|
|
Entering an age of Austerity and now driving a Focus Diesel.
|
|
|
|
|
Doive
Really Senior Member II
Joined: 09-February-2005 Location: Clinging to a turbine, Hexham Status: Offline Points: 1212 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 07:48 |
|
Has anyone ever used their 'new' interactive phone line? It really is the most infuriating creation yet by mortal man. It says helpfully on the website 'you can use our phone line to renew x, y and z' but yet when you get on there it takes you around in a sequence of ever maddening recorded messages, when all you want to do is speak to someone.
It's just a big heap of government created buerocracy, and legislation like this is just yet another way of squeezing even more blood out of the motorists of this country. If they proposed this in America there would be a spectacular revolt. |
|
|
1987 BMW 525e Lux Auto (sadly deceased)
Get Firefox - Ditch Hopeless Inertnet Exploder www.doive.co.uk
|
|
|
|
|
sleeper
Really Senior Member II
Original and STILL best Joined: 26-March-2004 Location: East Sussex/Kent border Status: Offline Points: 2098 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 08:29 |
|
doive, can you post up how and where on thire website you can vent your spleen to them? I reckon between us, and PH'ers, and the rice rocket brigade we can crash out the site with complaints. Really angry!!!!! |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Fenwick
Bavarian-Board Contributor
Joined: 27-August-2003 Location: Lost somewhere in time... Status: Offline Points: 6484 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 10:00 |
|
I've had the misfortune to have to use it on more than one occasion and I agree. You go through about 50 different options only to end up with a repeating recorded message. To actually get through to a person I had to go through the disabled driver option. It really does take the pi$$. Like I said, kicked to death, the lot of them. |
|
|
Entering an age of Austerity and now driving a Focus Diesel.
|
|
|
|
|
nero
Moderator Group
Just call me Tripod Joined: 15-October-2002 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 3131 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 10:19 |
|
I maybe wrong, but wasn't this article first published on 1st April
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
bmwcrazy
Really Senior Member II
1995 M5,1995 318ISE,1997 325 Joined: 24-October-2005 Location: (glasgow the wee apple) big dazz Status: Offline Points: 661 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 11:09 |
|
big brother gone mad
|
|
   
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Fenwick
Bavarian-Board Contributor
Joined: 27-August-2003 Location: Lost somewhere in time... Status: Offline Points: 6484 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 11:58 |
|
I don't think it's an April fool although I could be wrong. I'd heard rumblings about this before. |
|
|
Entering an age of Austerity and now driving a Focus Diesel.
|
|
|
|
|
Doive
Really Senior Member II
Joined: 09-February-2005 Location: Clinging to a turbine, Hexham Status: Offline Points: 1212 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 12:25 |
|
Nah, this has been in the planning for ages I think. I did indeed hear whispers of this one before, there was discussion on another website a few weeks ago, and was it not printed in Retro Cars or PPC or something like that? I'm fairly sure they released it a while ago, of course it's out for public consultation but they don't exactly announce stuff like this, if everyone actually heard it and realised the implications the place would get shouted down. And so it should, stupidity every last bit of it.
|
|
|
1987 BMW 525e Lux Auto (sadly deceased)
Get Firefox - Ditch Hopeless Inertnet Exploder www.doive.co.uk
|
|
|
|
|
Doive
Really Senior Member II
Joined: 09-February-2005 Location: Clinging to a turbine, Hexham Status: Offline Points: 1212 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 12:28 |
|
May I suggest we all write to Clive Bennett, who is the Chief Exec of DVLA. No point getting in touch with a faceless customer services system as the protests will just get 'misplaced'. Best to start at the top and stay there. He's trained as an engineer, so I'd like to think he has some modicum of common sense about him.
|
|
|
1987 BMW 525e Lux Auto (sadly deceased)
Get Firefox - Ditch Hopeless Inertnet Exploder www.doive.co.uk
|
|
|
|
|
bmwcrazy
Really Senior Member II
1995 M5,1995 318ISE,1997 325 Joined: 24-October-2005 Location: (glasgow the wee apple) big dazz Status: Offline Points: 661 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06-April-2006 at 12:32 |
|
if only Doive if only ,what are they going to hit us with next?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
spokey
Bavarian-Board Contributor
Offensive and obnoxious tub of lard Joined: 02-March-2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1948 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 07-April-2006 at 03:56 |
|
I had already started planning my departure from the UK. I'm glad to
see confirmation that I need to get out of here. This government will
not rest until it has interfered with every single aspect of our lives
and nannied us to death.
They are a bunch of ******* *****. |
|
|
Ciao,
Spokey 
|
|
|
|
|
Nigel
Moderator Group
Joined: 09-November-2002 Status: Offline Points: 6941 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 07-April-2006 at 04:57 |
|
The DVLA are awful, I have to deal with them often ! This "plan" isn't as stupid as it first seems, although it will of course catch some of you. When people modify cars that a company has spent millions of pounds developing, how do we know its safe ? Suspension changes, ride height, wheels etc etc, who has done the calculations on stresses etc ? How many people actually tell their insurance companies ? One of my neighbours kids was killed last year, and the mods he had done played a part ( although not all the problem), in the accident that led to his and his friends death. Think about "why" this is being considered, then come up with alternatives. |
|
|
Best Wishes
Nigel |
|
|
|
|
Peter Fenwick
Bavarian-Board Contributor
Joined: 27-August-2003 Location: Lost somewhere in time... Status: Offline Points: 6484 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 07-April-2006 at 05:14 |
|
How many deaths on the road are a result of modifications? Not that many I bet. It sounds more like some idiot has decided without any eveidence that if people modify ther cars it must be dangerous so we need to stop it. I will be that it is based on very little evidence that modifactions make cars more dangerous. |
|
|
Entering an age of Austerity and now driving a Focus Diesel.
|
|
|
|
|
Aidan316i
Really Senior Member II
Joined: 10-April-2005 Location: Derry, N.I Status: Offline Points: 606 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 07-April-2006 at 05:46 |
|
At this rate you'll need to write to the DVLA asking "is it ok if I put petrol in my car/change the tyres/ service it?"
|
|
|
www.ni-bmw.co.uk
E46 316i Saloon E36 323i Touring 
|
|
|
|
|
Nigel
Moderator Group
Joined: 09-November-2002 Status: Offline Points: 6941 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 07-April-2006 at 05:57 |
|
I can believe the "service it" could become a problem, rather like in Italy. I'm not supporting this stuff, but it does need to be looked at. You want your car and other cars to be safe. As for how many deaths due to modifcations I've no idea, I know it is thought to have contributed to my mates sons death ( wheels). I think if you modify your car it should at least be checked once, perhaps not every year, but how could you object to once ? |
|
|
Best Wishes
Nigel |
|
|
|
|
bmwcrazy
Really Senior Member II
1995 M5,1995 318ISE,1997 325 Joined: 24-October-2005 Location: (glasgow the wee apple) big dazz Status: Offline Points: 661 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 07-April-2006 at 06:22 |
|
well u cant use a mobile phone but u can fit dvd players use sat nav rules dont make any sense time too move back to canada what has become of this once great place we call the united kingdom? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post Reply
|
Page 12> |
|
| Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |
IMPORTANT! DVLA up to no good
Topic Options
Doive wrote: