Stupid questions about motorised conveyances

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A quick scan though & I can't see anything about the handbrake warning light.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mot-inspect ... tion-1-1-6
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Hooli wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 1:47 pm A quick scan though & I can't see anything about the handbrake warning light.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mot-inspect ... tion-1-1-6
There isn't.

The only issue that might arise is if said warning lamp doubles up for something else, but even a fluid level light is only a minor.
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Eddie Honda wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 2:00 pm
Hooli wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 1:47 pm A quick scan though & I can't see anything about the handbrake warning light.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mot-inspect ... tion-1-1-6
There isn't.

The only issue that might arise is if said warning lamp doubles up for something else, but even a fluid level light is only a minor.
On an E36 it doubles-up as a brake fluid warning light.

I know this from when one of the rear cylinders on my 316i burst. :lol:
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Handbrake warning is also the circuit imbalance warning (one of those balance valves that makes contact of one of the two brake circuits loses pressure) on my 1968 AMC :)
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Does anyone know where the OVERDRIVE sticker in the middle of the tailgate came from? It almost looks factory and seems like a BLARG font but I've never seen one before or since, and can't think of another car from the period that A: had an overdrive and B: advertised it quite so fucking loudly.
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captain_cal wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:22 pm Does anyone know where the OVERDRIVE sticker in the middle of the tailgate came from? It almost looks factory and seems like a BLARG font but I've never seen one before or since, and can't think of another car from the period that A: had an overdrive and B: advertised it quite so fucking loudly.
Quite a lot os Series Landy's came fitted with overdrive. Most had a metal badge proudly saying "Overdrive By Fairey".

I think Fairey Engineering were a Northern England firm as their brass band won the Granada TV Look North Brass Band Of The Year contest that was plugged on TV here back in 1978.
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IIRC Fairey winches (a subsidiary of the Manchester-based Fairey aviation company, and later spun off to Superwinch) were always based in Tavistock. You can see the "overdrive by Fairey" sticker on the top right, with a helpful "overdrive by Superwinch" one below..

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Funnily enough, I sold this one today
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If you zoom in and stand on your head, you'll see it's Fairly Winches Ltd, Tavistock, Devon
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Drum wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 1:32 am Funnily enough, I sold this one today

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If you zoom in and stand on your head, you'll see it's Fairly Winches Ltd, Tavistock, Devon
No it doesn't, it says FAIREY you AUTO-CORRECT CRIPPLE!

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Fucking phone
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