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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

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mansaxel:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 13, 2022, 04:37:27 pm --- The MOT is, if done properly, quite extensive and takes an absolute minimum of half an hour, ties up a rolling road brake tester, an actual exhaust gas analyser (none of this "what does the ODBII port say" rubbish), light alignment analyser and lift while it's being done.
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Same here.

mansaxel:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 04:39:28 pm ---You may well be right, istr the last stuff made here was the Vivaro van, and they maybe did announce its imminent demise/offshoring. Bloody scandalous is the murder of our car manufacturing industry.

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Most of it actually deserved it.

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: mansaxel on July 13, 2022, 08:31:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 04:39:28 pm ---You may well be right, istr the last stuff made here was the Vivaro van, and they maybe did announce its imminent demise/offshoring. Bloody scandalous is the murder of our car manufacturing industry.

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Most of it actually deserved it.

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Ouch, that hurts. We did at one time have an industry that was highly prized, but we got complacent and let the world overtake us instead of making them play catchup.

bd139:
Being complacent, incompetent, bureaucratic sell outs is our national pastime.

May have been using Mullard smartphones if we weren’t so good at that!

I have this world in my head of a British dystopian parallel 2022 where we had stuff like that with some 1960s anachronistic technology and impracticality applied to it. For example drunk chavs tumbling out of a brown Vauxhall Chevette limousine.

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: mansaxel on July 13, 2022, 08:31:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 04:39:28 pm ---You may well be right, istr the last stuff made here was the Vivaro van, and they maybe did announce its imminent demise/offshoring. Bloody scandalous is the murder of our car manufacturing industry.

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Most of it actually deserved it.

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Most. I had a Corsa for a couple of weeks as a loaner from the garage a few years back. Horrible car; if you tried to pivot between the accelerator and brake, as recommended by most driving instructors, your foot crashed into the side of the brake and you had to lift another 4-6 inches to get onto the brake - potentially lethal in my opinion. On the other hand I had a Cavalier 2.0 SRi as a company car back in the middle of the 80s and that wasn't bad at all, no real vices, reliable, decent handling compared to most other rep-mobiles, comfortable, nothing special but nothing to really moan about.

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