Vehicle brake test weights!!!!

I tested a corsa with 0 entered as btw luckily I use an atl so it doesn't matter to much to me, but it is another leap back

Like a lot of us I haven't updated my charts for a couple of years but it looks as though I'm going to have to now. I've had a couple with no or obviously incorrect brake test weights. One I got lock ups on all footbrake and parking brake measurements so that wasn't a problem. The other one I used the Tapley on so there are ways round the issue. Whether we should have to look for ways round it is another question!

this point makes you wonder who was on the board when they decided how the new system would work, who decided what information came with a vehicle registration for test, who decided what was needed and what was not needed, some so called bunch of idiots who think they are the bees knees because they are on the board of DVSA advisors came up with the requirements now to test vehicles, this bit about information needed is available elsewhere is crap, nobody has as much info about any motor as DVSA or, as it was known DVLA when anything was first registered, all this is about cutting their costs as much as they can get away with and shoving the consequences on us poor saps at the end of the line, and we have to cope with it somehow because without testing most would go out of business, the sh1t we have been dealt with stinks, no matter how much perfume you spray over it, it still stinks, untested, ill thought, and poorly implemented, I realise that some of the ones that run this site have links to DVSA and may not like this stance but i`m at the sharp end putting up with this crap, not party to the ones saying we`ll get there eventually, there should not be an eventually, it should have been more bloody use from the start

I can't say I have ever seen brake test weights on a V5?

The thing is for anyone who is thinking of collecting and publishing all of the data it would be a significant job involving a lot of time &effort , I am sure that most people would want some form of payment and there is also the issue of certified accuracy

Just one point, DVSA and DVLA are two entirely separate entities, DVSA is the amalgamation of VOSA and the Driving Standards Agency.

All we've ever need to carry out MOT Test are VRM (if available) & VIN. Possibly proof of year of manufacture too but not needed as we can use defaults if year not known...

Going to disagree with that David it doesn't matter to me as I use an atl, but you now have no way of knowing the btw, if any, till you come to enter results & if you don't have enough lock outs it's back out to the decelerometer, not really any easier I'd say.

Okay you got me on that, but I see plenty with only the front brakes lock & unless thing's have changed you need MORE THAN 50% to not require a measured brake test