Didnt make my SVA yesterday...

Engine troubles started the day off. Bearing in mind that this is a self made loom and a personally rebuilt engine that hasnt missed a beat since i got it running on the second press of the start button around four years ago. I got straight into determining the problem and it turned out to be a loose pin in a connector. The connector was fastened tight but I think a pin must have been slightly out. It was now starting to come down to the wire for making my test.

So about an hour and a half later I got on the road and the car was a dream, couple of niggles and of course stopping every 20mins or so for the first part to check things over. Anyway by the time I had got half way I came to the crashing realisation I wasnt going to make the test. Called through and the VOSA switchboard couldnt get through to the sva station.....

Just didnt leave enough time, though the engine trouble didnt help at all. All in all its a bit gutting but it was a great drive, managed to cover about 65 miles before realising I wasnt going to make it!!

absolutely gutted for you mate

oh no gutted for you mate. will you be able to re book?

rob

Gutted...

Before SVA



Before SVA 2




Before SVA 3




Ignore the crazy paint work, it will all be blue one day. Also note the deliberate SVA fail points..... Namely reflectors and centre mirror

[Edited on 24/4/09 by Findlay234]

bad luck..

nice private plate thou..

looking at the pics is the rear fog 90 degrees to the road

Well couldnt get through to them yesterday a few times but will try today....

yeah add vertical fog to the reflectors and centre mirror.

AR^E and F***K - that is a real shame.

a prime exampe of Sod's law.

I had same - I fitted a maplins ignition thingy that did not skip a beat.

come SVA day, engine was misfiring big time, got maybe 500 m so turned round,

no idea what is was but figured that it was bestto iundo the last thing I did so I refitted original condener and wired out the maplins and it ran ok. (I later replaced the maplins unit and it hasbeen fine since - WTF??? - could have been carbs)

real panic, sweat pouring out type stuff but I had allowed well over an hour extra - as it was, I arrived with about 5 mins spare.

I had allowed two hours extra on top of the 4 hours I had allowed myself to get to the station but I dont think that was enough in the first place. well it might have been had I not stopped to check things werent falling off. nothing did, it was just my bloody paranoia.!!!!


Managed to get through to them today and they are going to try and sort one out for me next which is very nice of them. Dont hold much hope but at least they are trying....

I had the oil warning light come up on my first attempt - tried all sorts of things to fix it, but eventually had to abandon the test.

Found out later that I could have fixed it easily - a stuck oil pressure relief valve! The pump is easy to get at on the side of the x-flow, so it would have been a 5-minute job.

i have also sufferd at the hands of sods law, set off in plenty of time for my test with the car on trailer, trailer tyre blew out on the motorway, it's a borrowed trailer, and the spare was also missing. pulling it with a pug, 108 pcd, trailer 100 pcd so couldn't even bodge on the car spare

Sorry to hear this fin, at least the car is running now and the 65 miles you covered is a good shakedown.

Where was your test.... Yeading or mitcham ?

wasnt either, had to get over to gillingham, hence I wouldnt have made it in the four hours I gave myself. Didnt want to hit the motorway for its first drive. May well do next time.

You need a grill as well to cover rthe contactable point inside..

Also nut covers on some of your front wishbones? not clear from the photo though so i might be wrong.

ive got the grill just wasnt on for the photo and it does have nut covers.

Talked to gillingham and theyve got no room for an sva so i either have to phone around for any cancelations or go through IVA.....

anyone know anyone whos cancelling on monday or tuesday?