Scottish MOTs

[scruffygit]

The 'Bird is due its first MOT on 1st March. I cannot get it done here in NI because its registered in England and can't be arsed taking it all the way back home in Northampton to get it done there 8ree! .

Can any of the Scots reps recommend a MOT centre in West Scotland - I take the Larne - Cairnryan ferry.

Many thanks as always :bow: :bow:

 

[marcella]

The 'Bird is due its first MOT on 1st March. I cannot get it done here in NI because its registered in England and can't be arsed taking it all the way back home in Northampton to get it done there 8ree! .

Can any of the Scots reps recommend a MOT centre in West Scotland - I take the Larne - Cairnryan ferry.

Many thanks as always :bow: :bow:

just tell me when scruffy , i'll get you booked in mate

 

[scruffygit]

Thanks mate :bow: :bow:

I'll PM you when I have some idea of when I can get time off work and sort out the ferry.

 

[marcella]

no probs scruffy

 

[NoBBy]

why cant you get an MOT in NI?? it's the United Kingdom for god sake. Thought we were all the same country?

 

[scruffygit]

why cant you get an MOT in NI?? it's the United Kingdom for god sake. Thought we were all the same country?

Read your passport:

United kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland


Two reasons:

1. NI has a seperate registration system, hence the different No Plates. Not registered in NI, no NI MOT or tax. That also applies to NI cars that have been re-registered on the mainland but still have the NI plates. The plus side is you don't have to get a MOT until the vehicle is 4 years old.
They also have a different driving test and licensing system, you used to be able to get a NI driving licence as well as your UK one (got one ), so depending who you got stopped by you flashed the opposite licence, because mainland points did not go on NI licences and vice versa. A friend of mine got done for drink driving on the mainland and was banned on her English licence but carried on driving, quite legally, on her NI one. It was cases like that that caused that particular loophole to be closed. You now cannot hold both licences, one has to be surrendered, and points/bans apply to both.

2. The test over here is an absolute bitch. None of the friendly mechanic in the local garage stuff, oohhh noooo. All govt approved test centres that have the power to impound your vehicle, if its a bad failure, until you can arrange to have it taken to repair - not driven - and they charge you storage until you collect it :cry:. Another friend was told by one of the test centre inspectors that if your vehicle is kept in NI then a mainland MOT is invalid :xm but whos going to notice (kiss of death there).

 

[NoBBy]

Thanks for that. But still can't see any reason why it should be diffrent in the first place

 

[Smix]

Thanks for that. But still can't see any reason why it should be diffrent in the first place

IoM and Channel Islands are all different too - guess the N Irish wanted to join in? :neenaw:

 

[marcella]

IoM and Channel Islands are all different too - guess the N Irish wanted to join in? :neenaw:

its a fookin outrage smix :rant: just ask scruffy how much insurance is for a vehicle in the north it doesnt matter if your 18 or 80 jew, protestant, muslim or catholic! its normally at least 3 times what we pay and maybe more.
my cousin who's 23 pays 2500 a year, and thats with 5 years nc and he drives a normal family hatch (wtftaa):dunno:

 

[ianrobbo1]

I suppose it goes back to the time the bomb chuckers blew everything in sight up!!! :dunno: or "yoofs" played chicken in stolen cars with the army!! :bang:

 

[marcella]

I suppose it goes back to the time the bomb chuckers blew everything in sight up!!! :dunno: or "yoofs" played chicken in stolen cars with the army!! :bang:

i dare say your quite correct ian! and 4-5 years ago none of them could complain, but i reckon insurance company's along with the vehicular law agencies (and many more) are just ripping the arse out of anyone north of dundalk, you cant say they're right in trying to recoup any monies lost because a great deal of the bother and its monetery cost was subsidised. its done just because they can do it.
but hey! thats why im herefl4g71 and thinking about moving to street near you cos i hear bread is cheap down your way, and sick pay is so easy to achieve that you can claim care allowance for a sick cat?
where do i signd34l

 

[Smix]

its a fookin outrage smix just ask scruffy how much insurance is for a vehicle in the north it doesnt matter if your 18 or 80 jew, protestant, muslim or catholic! its normally at least 3 times what we pay and maybe more.
my cousin who's 23 pays 2500 a year, and thats with 5 years nc and he drives a normal family hatch (wtftaa)

like Ian said - the insurance is cos of history (and prob current) issues. :bang: Years ago someone i knew in the RAF couldn't afford to take his car there cos of insurance. When he eventually did, some tosser nicked and burnt it!!!!!!:bang: It was a nice car too - back when I was young and impressionable !!!!!

I'm convinced the tax/mot thing is just cos there is water between them and us!!!!! :dunno: I'm waiting for someone to say the IoW is joining the gang!!!!!:neenaw:

 

[ianrobbo1]

all of these "company's" when cornered about how they structure their costs come up with the statement, "we charge what the market will pay" ie what all the rest of the company's we collude with to jack up our profits come up with!! and put "MP's" on the "board" as directors just to ensure the "laws" go in their favour!!
or then again I "may" be being just a "tad" sceptical

 

[marcella]

all of these "company's" when cornered about how they structure their costs come up with the statement, "we charge what the market will pay" ie what all the rest of the company's we collude with to jack up our profits come up with!! and put "MP's" on the "board" as directors just to ensure the "laws" go in their favour!!
or then again I "may" be being just a "tad" sceptical

:bow: :bow: nope you speak sense,,,,well here at least

 

[ianrobbo1]

:bow: :bow: nope you speak sense,,,,well here at least

:xm :bang: done it again!! :bang: sorry all,!! :blush:

 

[marcella]

:xm :bang: done it again!! :bang: sorry all,!! :blush:

im impressed tho! must admit all that time off work has done you good

 

[derek kelly]

I have a theory as to why insurance in Ireland is dearer, when we lived in Gawthorpe our next door neighbour was a lady called Agnes, she was from a place called Portavogie, Agnes was from quite a large family [about 7 brothers and 4 sisters if I remember correctly] she used to go back to Ireland at least once a year and one year when she returned she brought two of her brothers with her, one evening we were round at Agnes's chatting away with her & Doug [her husband] and her two brothers, they kept mentioning getting drunk in the Saab inn, naturally I thought the saab inn was a local pub, how wrong could I be, it was actually a Saab belonging to Agnes's eldest brother that they would all pile into with a crate of beer and drive round getting drunk.

 

[marcella]

I have a theory as to why insurance in Ireland is dearer, when we lived in Gawthorpe our next door neighbour was a lady called Agnes, she was from a place called Portavogie, Agnes was from quite a large family [about 7 brothers and 4 sisters if I remember correctly] she used to go back to Ireland at least once a year and one year when she returned she brought two of her brothers with her, one evening we were round at Agnes's chatting away with her & Doug [her husband] and her two brothers, they kept mentioning getting drunk in the Saab inn, naturally I thought the saab inn was a local pub, how wrong could I be, it was actually a Saab belonging to Agnes's eldest brother that they would all pile into with a crate of beer and drive round getting drunk.

you make me wish i was back home derek:cry: it wasn't a saab,, it was a ford fiesta filled with wife beater (stella) ahhhhhh! those heady days