Only one EV charger at home?!

Elfin safety that gets to the point where people take the trouble to circumvent or sabotage it routinely is simply pointless.

Yep. A velcro strap took care of that one.

I can't recall what my husband did to defeat "stop mowing while the lawn tractor is backing up". Maybe a jumper; maybe he had to solder some wires together.

Oh. On mine its a button you push. So he probably just wired it permanently shorted

I liked the way one riding mower did. There is a psition on the stsrting switch that allows backing up with the blades moving. I defeated three others by putting a jumper around a switch. Some of the mowers were not mine.

I never bothered. If I have to stop to move furniture or hoses it's only one pull to get it running again. It's like one of those stupid cars where the engine turns off at stoplights. It has never happened but there's a drop off in the lawn that is quite steep. If I lost control and the mower rolled down it I'd rather it was running.

Not a problem with my Troy-Bilt.

I think mine would be 11 miles with a walk-behind. One of my nerdier colleagues calculated it.

The tractor is also useful for pulling a trailer around the property. It can go places my SUV can't.

Takes me almost three hours with a 48" riding mower. It would probably take 12 hours to use my old 21" self-propelled walk-behind Toro.

Yes, although I find the loader on my 27hp Kubota to make a fine wheelbarrow :-).

It probably does, to somebody whose grasp of reality is a weak as Sewage Sweepers.

In reality Joseph Goebbels was propagating nonsensical Nazi racism, and anthropogenic global warming is a well-established scientific fact, which Sewage Sweeper has repeatedly demonstrated that he doesn't know anything about at all, except that he doesn't want to believe that it is going on.

There's nothing racial about Sewage Sweeper's intellectual inferiority - he's clearly simply stupid, possibly due to senile dementia. He does claim to have made it through university, which he couldn't have done if he'd been as stupid back then as he clearly is now, but he might just be lying, re-interpreting a career as a university toilet cleaner in a way that presents him in a better light.

High time we grew out of governmental control. We just don't need a set of morons in charge.

What is a clot shot?

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I think. They had an A ship and a B ship. One of them contained all the useless bureaucrats and was programmed to never turn up at the new planet.

Not here in the UK. You get told to fix them within 2 weeks. I once had a faulty handbrake, 3 faulty tyres, and a missing exhaust. I got told I had to get them all done within two weeks. When I told him he should have checked the records to see I had an annual test in 1 week, he was not amused, but he forgot about the 95 in a 70 zone.

Does that mean twice a year? That would be absurd, they must have a lot of mechanics.

I don't believe cars become unsafe when things don't work. They just fail to move.

Mine decided recently I had to park it level or downhill, or there'd be no petrol to run it the next day. Now it's started doing it any way up. A 1 week queue at the only decent garage near me.

No insurace, that would be cool.

Why on earth would you get insurance if you didn't have to?

Or one in a thousand. They'd still put it in there.

Over here it's a rip off. Say we collide, and it was my fault. Everybody agreed it was my fault. Your premium goes up and average of £110 a year and mine goes up an average of £130 a year. Why is that fair? Why does yours go up at all? Of course you can fiddle it by changing insurer and not telling them about the accident. Or if it's a minor bump, it's best coming to a private agreement and I hand you money to fix your car, then never tell the insurance.

They are usually a 'fix-it' ticket with no fine if you correct the problem. I got one for not having a working emergency brake. I'd replaced an automatic transmission with a manual. The AT had a brake drum on the tail which was the emergency brake; the MT didn't. That meant replacing the rear axle with one that had the emergency brake actuator and fabricating linkage. Pain in the ass.

However the cop only confiscated my Italian switchblade rather than making a big deal of it. He seemed to want a new toy.

The penalties for driving with illegal tyres can be severe. If you are stopped by the police and your tyres are found to be below the legal tyre tread depth limit, you can receive 3 penalty points on your driving license and be fined up to £2,500 per illegal tyre.

Brakes that fail to apply (car doesn't stop and hits the car/person in front), or apply on one side only (car veers to one side and hits people on pavement or oncoming cars).

Defective steering - car fails to turn when the driver turns the wheel, or goes completely out of control if front wheels fail to remain "parallel" (*).

Throttle cable jams wide open - car goes out of control if driver doesn't turn the engine off immediately. (**)

I'm sure people and think of other ways in which a car can fail dangerously, as opposed to failing safe and simply not moving.

The biggest dangers are those which are not noticed. My car failed MOT with a broken coil spring, but there was no sign prior to that - car did not lean to one side or try to veer to one side. No idea how long it had been like that, other than that it was less than a year otherwise it would have been picked up at the previous MOT. Interestingly, to the best of my knowledge, the car is still on its original shock absorbers after 190,000 miles: and I've asked the garage to check them at each service on the grounds that "surely after all this time they are starting to fail". Likewise for clutch - still original.

(*) I know that normal steering requires a small amount of toe-in or toe-out.

(**) This happened to me when I was learning to drive. I was going up a steep hill so was in low gear with fast engine. Changed up into third - engine raced a bit and car surged a bit, but I thought I'd cocked up clutch/throttle coordination. Changed into fourth on the level - car surged forwards and accelerator pedal felt spongy. Turned off ignition very quickly and pressed hard on footbrake, having worked out that pressing clutch would remove all mechanical load and would let engine overspeed (no rev-limiter on that car - it was too old). Cable had frayed and jammed in outer sheath, having behaved perfectly until then, no no warning sign.

Commander Kinsey is stupid ignorant and aggresssive.

KF him

Brakes wear out between tests, so the above can still happen.

You notice them becoming s*it, and get them fixed to avoid costing money and inconvenience when you damage your own car.

As above, replacing brakes with steering.

As above, replacing brakes with throttle.

But not without prior warning.

If it's not affecting the handling of the car, it won't cause a problem.

Utter bullshit. An MOT is random what they spot.

The last one I had, it failed because a rear "passenger" door (with no seats in the back) couldn't be opened from the outside to let out the fictitious occupant. It's been like that for the previous 2 MOTs and they ignored it.

Yet this last MOT, they failed to bother with a completely non-functional windscreen washer, and wiper blades which don't wipe much off at all because half the rubber's falling off.

The rules are also daft. Your bonnet is designed with two catches incase one fails, but they don't have to both work. My car only has the front one, the cable stretched or something so I just disabled it with a crowbar. I just open the bonnet from the front. This passes every time because "the bonnet can be secured shut".

Why would you ask them to check something which is working?

I thought it was supposed to be zero. It seems there are advantages and disadvantages to both:

See, you were a learner and still managed to sort it, no harm done.

I had an old Range Rover with a permanently slightly on throttle. I had to stand on the brake to stop it moving at a junction (it was an automatic - if I selected neutral, it would sit there revving like hell). I did that if I was stopping for a while, and it really annoyed the person in front who thought I was being impatient. I almost destroyed a small car driven by an idiot mechanic driving it across the road to the garage he worked at. He pulled out in front of me and I had to brake hard. Considering the throttle was still on, I didn't slow down very much, and missed him by an inch. I wish I hadn't braked at all. A Range Rover hitting the driver's side of a tiny car would have been funny. Watching the mechanic explain what happened to the owner of the car would also have been funny.

Depends on the suspension setup and tyre combination. I have set up many cars where the *factory* toe setting was zero +/- tolerance factor.

Had the same thing happen when a throttle return spring on the carb broke.

Lots of items break without prior warning and a lot of warnings go unrecognised.

It *has* to be having an effect but the driver won't notice it on most roads. It will have an effect on potholed roads.

All exits have to operate as designed.

Car servicing these days involves mostly *checking* things so they

And cooking up the trans fluid! Well done fool!

You knew your car was defective, you didn't get it fixed. Fool!

Aggression makes life more fun, especially when the other guy is a sissy like you.

Why don't you do it yourself?