Paul_J
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Was reading this weeks driving section and there's something about some people called VOSA. Basically volunteers get police powers, to pull cars over, check them and issue fine's! Same way a police officer would, apart from these guys are there ONLY to do that, so will blatently be pulling over everyone.
Also, the sort of person who would be a VOSA person, is blatently just a power hungry loner, who would feel so big by giving out fines to others.
What's more in this article, the bloke said that his target would be tatty looking cars, and boy racers. In the article they showed them pull over a celica that had alloys and side skirts and they fined him for having the wrong shade of tint's. 
You have to get a new MOT and show it to them (that's £40 just there per time it happens) - most cars will be able to find something wrong.
It also said things like noise levels, ommissions, tyre tread, etc would be checked - so blatently they'll complain about clear lights etc. 
It's bad enough that police pull over people on trivial things, but people dedicated to doing it is going to be a pain in the ass - having a load of people waste their time and yours crawling over your car checking everything looking for something to fine you over 
Also - if you refuse to pull over when they're at the side of the road- you will be noted and fined
Paul J
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Mistamist
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 would love to see them try that round here, they would probably get shot or kidnapped or just beaten to a pulp.
are they just regular people or are they like them community support officers? they get fuck all respect round here either they have to walk round in groups of 3 or more cos they get attacked if they on their own.
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Mattb
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their not volunteers, VOSA (vehicle and operator services association) is the main body of vehicle inspectors they regulate mot testing stations etc.. basically they have more power than the police and are real harsh gits. they were in at work testing someone for their mot liscence and they decided while they were there that a motorbike on our property was not road legal and slapped him with a 30 quid fine and revoked his mot meaning he had to fix and re-test..
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Thoday
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tossers.. it wont work there will be a national outcry and many a roadrage incident..
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ed
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Shouldn't do illegal modifications to your car then... Simple as that.
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Paul_J
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quote:
Originally posted by Mattb
their not volunteers, VOSA (vehicle and operator services association) is the main body of vehicle inspectors they regulate mot testing stations etc.. basically they have more power than the police and are real harsh gits. they were in at work testing someone for their mot liscence and they decided while they were there that a motorbike on our property was not road legal and slapped him with a 30 quid fine and revoked his mot meaning he had to fix and re-test..
From what I was reading, they are letting normal people volunteer for the VOSA positions now though, like they gave some citizans the power to do people for speeding in some place.
Paul J
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Paul_J
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Originally posted by 1800ed
Shouldn't do illegal modifications to your car then... Simple as that.
Yeh but you know what police are like - complaining about how much a car is lowered etc. I'm sure these VOSA people would probably say 'having shower rails in your front bumper is unsafe and unlegal!'
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ed
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I would then ask them under what grounds, as they are radialized so there were no sharp edges on them - thats what the like... No sharp edges 
Anyway:
No chrome bars anymore.
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Paul_J
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they'd claim your sunstrip is stopping you being able to see properly... and the bad boy bonnet would be limiting the light on the road
who knows - just you know how arsy police are... just imaging these vosa people...
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ed
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I have no sunstrip  I think they would be a little nit more worried about my headlight alignment Shit, I think it needs an MOT this week
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Mattb
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ed
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Just checked and realised we drove it for a few months with no tax and no MOT so it doesn't need to be done 'til the end of January
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Matt_Pantz
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There was one of those check points on my way to college this morning, luckly they were only just setting up so didn't get me, i'm sure i'd be liable for a few things! they looked like a bunch of power crazed old giffers with nothing better to do on a tuesday morning!
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Paul_J
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that's the joke - even if you think your car is 100% legal and has a MOT, I'm sure if most are looked at closely, you'll be able to find something. Whether it's noise of exhaust or something. They'll probably say about the camber and lowering...
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richard_syko
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Would be fun being one though, imagine all the paxos you could pull over
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ed
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One thing, which newspaper did you read this is? If it was in the Sun or the Daily Mail (e.t.c...) You can count it as a load of bullshit. They print half the story to make everything look negative. I think this sort of thing is good - it is most like to be implemented to get tax/insurance evaders off of the road. If you think about it, the current system doesn't work. You drive your car with no tax, you get a fine and your car imponded. The people who do this 9 times out of 10 drive £50 bangers and don't give a shit. They buy a new car. The same applies for the people who don't have insurance because it would cost more than the car is worht to insure it in most cases. So these people who are driving about in un-road worthy bangers will have another problem to face if these people can force an MOT upon them. Sure it wont get everyone, but its another step...
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Matt_Pantz
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yeah, I bet they are really thoughour (sp!?) and picky with a modified car, just because they can be and seem to enjoy disrupting our lives!
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ed
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Na, the reason why the pick on people with modded cars is because of the ammount of idiots there are who do dangerous modifications. People who tint thier windows far too dark (and cause other vehicles to crash into them at night as they cannot see them), people who lower thier car by cutting the springs and stuff like having no reflectors in the lights e.t.c... If people didnt spend so much time making chav wagons then life would be a lot easier.
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Paul_J
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Was the Driving section of the Sunday Times
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Paul_J
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quote:
Originally posted by 1800ed
Na, the reason why the pick on people with modded cars is because of the ammount of idiots there are who do dangerous modifications. People who tint thier windows far too dark (and cause other vehicles to crash into them at night as they cannot see them), people who lower thier car by cutting the springs and stuff like having no reflectors in the lights e.t.c... If people didnt spend so much time making chav wagons then life would be a lot easier.
in the pic they showed the guys tints looked not that dark at all... you could see the guy behind it testing it very clearly...
It also quoted him saying 'One of our targets is modified cars'
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Mistamist
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I agree with your point ed, if people spent a little more time researching decent mods and the adverse effects and legalalities of certain mods, a lot of modifier's chariots will infringe less MOT laws and would eventually show that not all of us just slap on any springs/alloys/tons of ill fitted fibreglass and take pride in our cars.
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Ally
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We got pulled for having an illegal number plate, because the font wasnt standard UK, was slightly rounded
Police should be concentrating on catching murderers, rapists and pedos instead of pulling people for little things like tints
Fair enough if the person is driving like a cock then they deserve to be pull over but a purfectly good driver who has slightly darker then normal tints shouldnt be pulled over and fined because of it a slap on the wrist is enough
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Joff
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If you knew the plate wasn't legal.. then why did you choose it?
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Jambo
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THere should be a register, for the UK, where you can take your car to have an MMOT.
A Modified MOT basically, get all your mods checked over and approved and chavs just get a kick in the nuts, that way we could seperate ourselves from the minority that ruin it for everyone else!!
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James_DT
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quote:
Originally posted by Ally
Fair enough if the person is driving like a cock then they deserve to be pull over but a purfectly good driver who has slightly darker then normal tints shouldnt be pulled over and fined because of it a slap on the wrist is enough
If it's against the law, a fine is appropriate.
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