Developing a relationship with the tester is never a bad thing. I just had Freddy in for his annual "sticker" as we call it in Maine - I go to a local Sears store with an auto department. They always give my cars to the same guy, as he is the only one old enough to actually know how to operate the lights and horn on old British and French cars. ;-) Anyway, this time he took me aside and told me that I had a slight exhaust leak at the last clamp on the new system, but that he would pass me anyway as he knew what good care I take of my cars. So I drove home and tightened things up.
Kevin Rhodes Westbrook, Maine Freddy the Spitfire of many model years At 10:44 04/17/2002 +0100, T. .R. Dafforn wrote: >I'm pretty sure these guys are not in it for making money on rectifying >faults. >I take the car to a place that just does MOTs for all the other garages around >here (for that very reason.) >Its really just the 'billy the kid' attitude. The car is usually tested by an >older guy who knows the car, and makes good comments on the bits of work I >have >done to the car each year. In fact at one point he asked how much I wanted for >it!! >Maybe I should book it in for MOT by him! >Cheers >Tim /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
