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We went to take the car to Ziggy for a pre MOT check. He screwed the bumper back on a bit tighter and cleaned the engine so they could check the number and then told us that the Police testing centre now have a new toy/piece of equipment and they are failing everyone on brakes/hand brake/balancing. He suggested that we had the emissions test and then took it to be MOT’d, see what they threw up. So down to Mert Garaj for the emissions test, it wasn’t right, so he adjusted it free of charge! 24.50tl for the emissions test. Next to the tax office to pay for the MOT, 124tl. We then took our receipt to the Police MOT place. Very impressive their new piece of equipment. We waited while the fella before us was arguing with the policeman about the test paper from the new machine, obviously his had failed as well.
My turn, I drove the car towards the equipment and he told me to stop. Told me to turn the front lights on, yes, they all worked. He didn’t check the back ones! He then tried the hand brake, checked the engine number, walked round the car and told Mal there was a “problem” with a bit of rust at the rear. Mal denied the car was anything to do with him, said it was mine!!! So I told him Ziggy had checked the car this morning. With that he went into the office and wrote out my three year certificate!
We jumped in the car and sped away in case he changed his mind. Mal put 1,000tl aside thinking we would need work doing on it. I guess it pays to have it serviced regularly at Ziggys. These Renault 9’s just keep on going. It is now 19 years old.
Incidentally, for anyone who is taking their car, unlike the last test I had three years ago, when the most important things seemed to be two rear mud guards, a first aid box, red triangle and a torch, none of these things were checked!
Thought for the Day – “There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else. ” ~ Peyton Conway March