Thread: Registering fozzy... yep, one of those days....

well today was fun... I very very nearly wasnt able to get fozzy registered.... wait, Ive gone to far forwards, its not going to have my normal rantish feel to it If i just tell you the outcome (que the wavy flashback video morph and rising harp strums as the picture disolves to me heading to work)

nothing went wrong... not one thing, till lunchtime... Coffee was good and hot and it was cold and I didnt spill a drop, every single thing right up till lunch time went perfectly... I didnt even have to deal with an idiot, moron or someone who couldnt find porn on the internet.....

Lunch time came and it was time for me to knock off and start doing the stuff for fozzy so I could get a road worthy so off I go new battery in start him up and wheel him in so I could do the lights check thing and just a tiny bit of tidy up work and.... coolant leak... so pull all that down and then replace the gaskets in the thermostat housing as well as the thermostat and snap one of the bolts... pull it off and I get lucky theres enough meat to rip the bolt out with vice grips and that works... replace it all and the gaskets leak...

new gaskets plenty of goo and I leave it to setup.... yeah ok Its getting rantish the short version I got it fixed....

while I was waitng for the goop to sort itself out I call for the CTP... only place that will do CTP over the phone and fax out the paperwork is.. NRMA.. and the branch that handles that is closed today because of the EKA show day public holiday... phone wife and get her to do the running around while I sort out the coolant system...

turn up to the place that does the roadworthy... pop the hood he took one look at me and one look at the VIN plate in on the radiator bulk head and mutters "76 huh?", "yeah why?" "Guess you know all the regs it doesnt have to comply with yeah" "urm no not really but I can do that off the top of my head for a 66 rover if you like".... Short version the inspection was cut short after the next questions of "you a mechanic" and "anything wrong with it?" (yes/no respectively) the paper work took longer than the inspection... when I was leaving he asked me to have a look at something out the back.... nice series III that wasnt running and did I know anything about them... 10 minutes later its running (dizzy out 180 degrees) so discounted inspection... Cool.

heres a tip... SIII LWB rovers get great right of way on the road... 2 lanes all to my self and EVERYONE let me in when I indicated that I was going to go that way... hell people even slowed down to let me through cross traffic when I had the lowest form of right of way possable... cool. new daily driver...

pull up at the rego place and park... paper work, easy... inspection.... youd think that I could drive 12Km from the inspection place to the rego place without having an accident so did I.

As part of the safety inspection over the pits I got pulled up for the angle strip on the back left of the vehicle being hanging off nope no pass... not happy I know it was on properly before I left, no one hit me when I was driving whats going on. nope no pass....

I get outside and theres a guy waiting at the pit for me to move the rover and he asks me if its mine and we eventually get to did I see the guy doing the test swipe the side of it reversing out... Urmm no... hang on what?

sure enough...


(yes I know the photo was taken in my yard and not at the pits, stop being picky)

he gives me the rego for the vehicle and its descrption, I thank him and he toddles off, he waves to me later from a very nice looking shed on wheels (county/deefer but not in original paint) so I wait.....

In the car park I lurk, in much the same way that an old oak tree might lurk in a shrubbery or that a pro wrestler might lurk at a midgets birthday party... my llatest victim eventually shows he parks and both parties are smiling.... Smiling in the same way that I do when I dont know that some little car is going to reverse into the front of me or just before any number of things is going to gang up on me to make my life more entertaining to others.... This does little to make me happy, If at least the driver was frowning because he knew he failed I might have been a tatch more sympathetic.. I wasnt...

I wont bore you with the transcript but needless to say when the words "no we didnt" came out of the testees mouth I invited them to come and look at their front right panel and explain the loverly scrape marks down the side of it that convieniently match a, the general shape of the back of a rover and b, have bits of my paint in them... then I showed them my rover and the fail on my paperwork...

This from the guy who seems to have neglected something important about vehicle accidents, is testing a guy for his driving ability "Oh well too late to do anything about that we're closed.... "

(for those unaware I have a problem with beurocrats that make my life harder than it needs to be and if they dont do the right thing when offered the oportunity to the first time around I like to bludgen them into doing it Id prefer with raw viking like barbarian violence but usually by either putting them in a position where not doing the right thing right now will obviosuly lead to people in a lot more significant positions making their life harder than theyd like, I digress)

Reahhly... mobile phone out... phone number punched hello ipswich police yes Id like to report a vehicle accident with the second vehicle leaving the site of the accident without reporting,, yes I have a witness, I can see the vehicle that caused the damage and am will be taking photos of it shortly Oh judging by where the accident happened there should be CCTV footage available can you send a car over to help me or do I need to come in and make a report....
I get interupted and apparently now we can do something,

Registration completed 15 minutes later to meet a very upset looking bloke without a liscence demanding to know how he was ment to get his car home now that he isnt allowed to drive....

"aww shucks mate Im sorry I dont care...."

to add insult to injury you know that horrible clingy whiteish pall of smoke that a series diesel emits when you start it from cold without glowing it....

Originally Posted by long stroke

Dave you need to write a book.....

TIM.

as I previously noted... in cartoon form please, so we can all understand it