And now I've seen it all ...

[tim.....]

Because the fining company's MO is to bank the money that comes in from the dumb and forget about the rest.

tim

[tim.....]

I thought it was all warning lights "as fitted".

So whilst some are optional, if they are fitted they have to work

[John Williamson]

Whether they get a badge will depend on their doctor in many cases, and on the council in most. Generally, being able to only walk a few yards without stopping for a rest will get you a badge.

Possibly, he would need to check with the local council and his doctor.

One council's rules are here:-

others are similar.

[usenet2012]

Yup. Standard eating knife. I even asked him and he laughed. Maybe the ones here are worn - the trolleys are quite old.

[usenet2012]

In message , tim..... writes

Our Tesco locks the wheels as you go up/down their travelators. Damned annoying when in a hurry though the alternative is probably too amusing a prospect to be allowed.

[polygonum]

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Correct.

My partner has plenty of reason to have one but, somehow, cannot get herself to ask her doctor. I sympathise with that - it feels like a final admission that she will never get better. She does not, and possibly could not, use a wheelchair.

[John Williamson]

Not an uncommon problem. People don't want to admit to themselves that they are now badly enough disabled to need help.

[The Other Mike]

But not all trailer connectors, just the 'new' 13 pin ones

[The Other Mike]

Windscreen washer bottle low level light.

No self test facility, the only way to prove it is to turn the washers on for 30 mins or unbolt the reservoir and tip the contents out.

[djc]

Some are activated by a sort of 'cattle grid' type mat. The wheels have a metal disk beside the tyre wich drops into the slots in the mat and causes the wheel to brake. More effective on a full trolly which is harder to lift. Another type has a large plasic lump beside the wheel, not sure how that works but may be activated magnetically

[Nightjar]

I live in an area that has mixed rural and urban roads and I don't see people using main beams a great deal, even when they should, much less leaving them on to the inconvenience of oncoming traffic.

Colin Bignell

[Tim Lamb]

I've noticed that.

They seem to prefer driving slowly on dip. Makes it difficult to overtake politely as you can't see any more road than they can.

While we are being critical, there is the dirty windscreen/poor eyesight brigade who slow down every time a vehicle approaches.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , The Other Mike writes

Are you sure?

I was warned during the last MOT and the tester had a whinge about having to buy the test kit.

[SteveW]

7-pin ones are not required to work, but they are required to be undamaged and firmly attached.

SteveW

[SteveW]

No. The list of newly testable items is as follows:

- Headlamp levelling and cleaning devices when fitted for HID or LED headlamps

- Main beam ?tell-tale?

- Battery (including batteries for electric or hybrid vehicles)

- Electrical wiring and connectors

- Trailer electrical socket security and damage

- Operation of 13-pin trailer electrical sockets using an approved trailer socket tester

- Operation of the steering lock (where fitted) including that malfunction warning is not displayed for an electronic steering lock

- Electronic power steering malfunction warning indicating a fault

- Electronic parking brake control and malfunction indicator lamp

- Electronic Stability Control (ESC) components, including the switch (if fitted) and malfunction warning

- Brake fluid warning lamp illuminated or inoperative

- Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS)

- SRS components including airbags, seat belt pre-tensioners, seat belt load limiters and SRS malfunction warning lamp

- Engine mountings

- Speedometer

- Indirect vision devices (where they replace obligatory mirrors)

SteveW

[Tim Watts]

Round here, you really have to slow down at night if there is an oncoming car - reason, no pavements on many of the roads, so if you do see a pedestrian in your path, you cannot swerve out, so you really have to be prepared to stop on a penny.

[ARW]

Only if it is cost productive.

One of the fired appentices is claiming on Facebook that he his now earning £12 an hour stacking shelves at Lidl.

[ARW]

So are you suggesting "colostrsomy bag about to explode" bays should be next to a "mad person" on board parking bay?

[Mark]

Unlikely. Shelf stackers in Waitrose only earn just above minimum wage.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I'd agree with that too on my visits to unlighted roads. Although you have to go quite far from here given pretty well all main roads and motorways have lighting near London.

What I do notice is that 4X4 and vans with high mounted headlights seem to cause more dazzle when you get close to them than cars with a more normal height. Especially when parked on the 'wrong' side of the road which is so common round here - if I have to do that I switch off the headlights immediately.