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Old 9th August 2016, 05:16 PM
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Default Another year, another MOT

The old girl passed again with flying colours, no observations.
To quote the tester (mate of mine) "Try as hard as I could I couldn't find anything even slightly wrong, very tidy".

He did however note (I had warned him) the odd gearbox/throttle behaviour driving it to/from his place of work, a couple of times. He had, when I described it to him beforehand, suspected the Throttle Position Sensor, but now doesn't. Said it was more like being in the wrong gear.
I think that's consistent (insofar as anything is!) with the F125 switch occasionally playing up and not reporting correctly the gearbox status.

So, that's the next job.
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Old 9th August 2016, 07:00 PM
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Good to hear! Well done.
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The old girl passed again with flying colours, no observations.
To quote the tester (mate of mine) "Try as hard as I could I couldn't find anything even slightly wrong, very tidy".

He did however note (I had warned him) the odd gearbox/throttle behaviour driving it to/from his place of work, a couple of times. He had, when I described it to him beforehand, suspected the Throttle Position Sensor, but now doesn't. Said it was more like being in the wrong gear.
I think that's consistent (insofar as anything is!) with the F125 switch occasionally playing up and not reporting correctly the gearbox status.

So, that's the next job.
always good to get another year on the MOT, mine is due soon too so fingers crossed.. my sons didn't pass the pre mot exam today, exhaust leak from flexi pipe
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