MOT special notice 3-19: changes to MOT inspection manuals

quite interesting that they can send us an sn telling the less gifted amongst us that sub 50 % is less than half but all the other stuff on the blog isd missing.only real world problem I can see is losing tpms as an advise(sorry meant minor)and cant help thinking that an appeal has bit em in the arse somewhere cos its mostly boiler plate

we aint required to do either,cant see it being any more than a p+a with no longer having an a!cant see how reiterating the smoke info in the manual is any help either,if the guy aint spotted that they removed the "whichevers lower"bit post 08 then he aint gonna notice it by it being repeated.whats wrong with going"OUR BAD"and telling us/them precisely that or would folks then ask "what about our smoke meter then you bunch of fookwits?"or similar embarrassing questions.simple plain English with an explanation of the changes and their real life applications/limitations cant be that difficult can it?they managed to type all this guff out in a special notice after all.why not make sure it and its implications are clearly understood?

Thing is does anybody really give a flying fcuk what sh1te they put in a special notice.
They obviously don't proof read them or are not intelligent enough to notice the fcuk ups if they do.
Sorting the manual out should be an absolute priority but over a year on and we are still having to cope with things that were wrong from the start.

been like it since the update in may or june I think,seem to recall someone on a blog asking when it was getting sorted as well.makes you chuckle tho,right up to the point when you start wondering WHAT they actually changed on axles cos the description aint exactly helpful now is it?

its merely the end result of years of "whats second best?"as the best solution always involves expenditure.keep doing that often enuff and you end up with mcstaff al la the first year gophers doing the "servicing"at main dealers with perhaps one senior tech in the whole building or "rationalisation"as per the lack of bank branches or similar with the added downward trend provided by people that aren't accountable as opposed to private sector who generally find emselves outta a job when the standards drop too low.the old sayings still true,pay peanuts,get monkeys.

the trade off when working for the public sector be it as a binman or a benefits clerk was always that you accepted poor wages in return for good conditions/pensions etc along with a fairly early retirement.thats all been now removed and the sorta staff youre likely to attract/retain(certainly at front line level)on civil service wages after all the above benefits have been fooked with isn't likely to be high.its why your local council has outsourced everything.when they started all this crap the above mentioned binmen etc took retirement/redundancy resulting in most of the services concerned(house maintenance,plumbers/trades or in the case of dvsa ves/technical staff)losing most of the folks they were relying on to actually do the job or indeed train replacements.its a skills problem as much as anything,we in the garage trade are also suffering from similar problems.the difference in our trade being that if a trainee is useless you get rid as opposed to giving him a time/grade related payrise.you don't however keep mcstaff while laying off your mastertechs,thats plain stupid tho it doesn't appear to have stopped a lotta the national chains attempting it!the downside is that when these skills are gone then they tend to stay gone for a long time and replacing em is expensive and takes time.the gvmnt as well as a lotta private sector companies think they can do it quick and cheap.you cant.

axle lights remind me of the seventies when the escort back end was jacked up with lights shining on the freshly painted orange back axle!

Nothing to be proud of!