And now I've seen it all ...

I changed the dip pair car recently. H7. They were old and not as bright as new.

Quite.

It's possible to cross thread a nut too.

And you'd leave it like that till the next MOT?

You can't. You have to remove a trim panel inside the car and undo a nut about a thousand turns through a tiny and very sharp-edged aperture in the internal bodywork. The design sucks donkey dick.

I have a spare flashgun. :o)

The HIDs on the Disco III are *brilliant*. In both senses. Best headlights I've ever had on a car. Wouldn't go back to the dim brown pools we used to have to use.

Actually, two nuts. On really long bolts, so you can't use a nut runner.

If you stay longer than the permitted time, you are in breach of the implied contract with the land owner, and the DVLA are permitted to sell your details to the owner of the parking area for billing purposes.

So you admit that you park in a disabled space without displaying the required badge or a parent and child bay without the required number of children, in breach of the conditions posted in the car park. (In small print on a grubby notice hidden in the corner behind a shrubbery.)

As an organisation with a legitimate reason to have the information, (They want to chase you for a bill) the car park operator just has to ask the DVLA for the details. They will be charged a fee for it, which is passed on to you as part of the parking charge.

You heard no more about it because it wouldn't be economically viable for them to chase you any further.

The breach of the DPA, if any, is by the DVLA who are the registered holders of that data, but as they passed on the information to a third party for a legally approved use, you'd not get far chasing them.

As you say, their loss.

D-O-G ?

MBQ

No, the DPA does not apply to data used for law enforcement purposes, especially if a court grant a warrant for seizure and/or use of said data. Nor does it apply to data used for a specified, legal purpose, in this case, the apprehension of an alleged offender.

I have the iPhone on a window mount for sat nav. It's also useful because it lets me flick the iPhone to "torch/strobe" for those prats on bicycles with strobing headlights.

Sounds like they copied the Ford Exploder.

That's the primary reason, not an "also includes". If they can catch someone with outstanding markers for failing to appear in court it's a bonus.

You don't really have to be taking the piss. I was stopped about a decade ago by two plod who told me that I had been speeding but they hadn't managed to start their Vascar in time and when the speed limit changed from

Only someone who has never worked on a car would think it was a stupid remark.

Remember to buy several since halfrauds bulbs only last a couple of weeks.

They shouldn't need to, all new cars have to have a warning when a bulb fails. Like most warning lights in cars people ignore them.

That was fine when most cars had three digits. These days they seem to be changing the kit to accept full reg.

Chris

Come clean, then. You have actually fitted a headlight bulb 'upside down' which was only discovered at MOT time?

Surely, as per usual practice these days, they would just put it in the hands of debt collectors?

Perhaps the car park company were trying to do it 'on the cheap' and not paying the DVLA, so that's why they dropped it?

Also, whence does your information come? Although as I say IANAL, I'm yet to be convinced that, where no crime has been committed, the DVLA can sell on your details as you suggest.

I've got a choice of Morrisons, Aldi, Asda, and Tesco. So if one pisses= me off in any way they lose custom (after being told loudly that they'r= e about to).

Long box spanners are cheap, once you find the correct size.

You can even use them with a drill driver by putting a bolt in the chuck to drive the other end.