HONDA JIZZ - NCT TIME (Expired 31/10/23, but I see the guards in the 24h garage most nights and they never bat an eyelid
Got up early doors to do something about the rear brakes on this.
NS outer pad toast
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Disc doesn't look fantastic and I wish we had rear drums like the NA-spec cars.
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Disc shield dissolving
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Found the inner part of it rubbing against the hub, so bent it out clear.
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OS similar with the outer pad being down to the backing.
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Much the same with regards to the disc.
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In between, I had a look at the NS bumper attachment that is missing a screw. I remember now that the corresponding hole in the bumper is undrilled (must have been replaced sometime in the past).
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A quick look under makes me think I ought to do some preventative work rather than end up with a Drum situation.
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OSR here just behind the rear door. A favourite mud trap.
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With a brief shower of rain at noon. I had a quick lunch and emptied the car out and gave it a quick hoover so it didn't look like too much of a shit tip inside.
Left later than planned and instantly ran into a big queue of traffic on the main road. Got to the NCT centre at 15:01. They appear to be doing some renovations, so a couple of containers plonked outside for office/waiting rooms - AND NO FUCKING VIEWING WINDOW ONTO THE TEST LANES. Still, it's diagonally opposite Screwfix and I've a click and collect dimmer switch to pick up.
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Eventually this wee Filipino lad comes out 25 mins later to start the test. So with Junior 1, I walk round to the exit side of the building to look from afar. Is that the exhaust probe he has in his hand as he goes to the nearside? (Doesn't make sense as the exhaust exits offside). Nope, I think he's got an airline to the tyres. Why? Not his job. I make a note to check them back at home.
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There's actually no photography allowed, but as there is nobody identifiable in my crap pictures, I say FUCK YOU APPLUS!
After lowering the lift, he had the various lights on too long without the engine on (throughout the test, even though that stuff is all meant to be checked at the start of the lane) as I saw a colleague of his lift the bonnet and start it from a jump pack because my battery is lame.
Anyway, I predicted a fail, but not this sort of fail.
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Let's pick this list apart:
NS headlamp lens cloudy - it's been like that the last test and passed. I'm going to change it anyway as it's shit on the inside surface of the plastic.
OS aim apparently too high. Last time I retested for it and set them up on the wall at work and passed the retest. This time I'll use the wall at the back of Joe's barn like I did for the Land Rover.
He's marked the three pipes that he's claiming are corroded, but it's debatable as no tester I've ever met has Ray Milland X-Ray eyes to know what the original wall thickness is to calculate a third of it. I'll have a poke around and see, but nothing I can't do as I've a roll of cupronickel pipe and shit loads of fittings he and a Sykes Pickavant Flaremaster 2 and not afraid to use it
The ball joint boot does have a hole in it as I made it and didn't get round to changing pre test. That's fair and square. Again, I've got a pair of new ones sitting here on the kitchen table (and two ball joints as well, just in case).
Things not picked up...
Both front wheel bearings have no play, so pass, but I'll be change them as I think it's the offside that is a right droney bastard (and been like that for a while).
Trailer socket has a switch that disabled the car fog light when a plug is inserted, except it was disabling it all the time. I got round this by unplugging the fog light feed from the trailer socket loom and back into the car fog light directly. So now my trailer socket has no fog light, but they only test the in tail, brake and indicators on that...
