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DoE testing - The Last Word

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  • #852
    bugsntinas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭bugsntinas


    TURBO you really need to go to specsavers or a shrink as you can't see what i originally wrote.i never said i took the van for mid test and you are the only one that hasn't actually answered correctly.
    the rsa never issued a short test AS I HAVEN'T TESTED THE CAMPER YET.
    i think you need to do what you put in the last sentence "read more and complain less"


  • #853
    zambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭zambo


    bugstinas you might think someone with hymac in their name might know when to stop digging.


  • #854
    bugsntinas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭bugsntinas


    zambo wrote: »
    bugstinas you might think someone with hymac in their name might know when to stop digging.

    to true.probably been on the sherry all day


  • #855
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRsbCgNuj6v1wlQaIvgNRqGTWwypc34m9xduEVkSUhthvlfqlAM

    [Please refrain from character accusations in a technical discussion]


  • #856
    niloc1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭niloc1951


    Turbohymac wrote: »
    ........................... they were quite correct to only give him a short test.. ........................the rsa were correct to issue short test.. .............................

    Would Turbohymac, or anybody, please explain why this is necessary and what it has got to do with the road safety or lack of it of the tested vehicle.


  • #857
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    DOE today, and it passed with flying colours.

    Tester is still scratching his head at my 000 HCppm reading......again, two tests

    in the last 3 years, and with 3k+ miles up on last tests. I said his machine is fekked.

    he said its the most up to date available, and calibrated. I said it makes me the

    best T25 mechanic then that money can buy :D:D:P


  • #858
    autumnalcore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 838 ✭✭✭autumnalcore


    kadman wrote: »
    DOE today, and it passed with flying colours.

    Tester is still scratching his head at my 000 HCppm reading......again, two tests

    in the last 3 years, and with 3k+ miles up on last tests. I said his machine is fekked.

    he said its the most up to date available, and calibrated. I said it makes me the

    best T25 mechanic then that money can buy :D:D:P

    Did you fit a dummy exhaust 😠or maybe it was too high to be read 😜

    Was it running on lpg?


  • #859
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    All stock 1.9 petrol dg engine on Pierburg 2E3 carb.

    Its definitely too high to be read on startup, like them all:)

    After 2 minutes, clean as a whistle, but surely it has to show something

    on readout.

    Tester said he has never seen a 000 reading. Myself, I think there is something

    amiss with the equipment, but I am not one to complain:P


  • #860
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,875 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Anyone heard of a camper being refused on the Ferry (Irish Ferries - Dublin - Cherbourg) for an out of date CVRT?



  • #861
    SteelyDanJalapeno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,346 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    Can I remove the bulkhead from my van and still pass DOE?

    I don't use it as a work van, wouldn't ever be tools in it,



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  • #862
    Itineoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭Itineoman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120694802#Comment_120694802

    No. There’s no place for them to look for it. Check in counts the number of passengers, registration number and passports. That’s all. Can’t see why they would have any interest in anything else. But I think it would be very unwise to travel without one.



  • #863
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,875 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Thanks Itineoman, we had a cert but no window disc. All went well.



  • #864
    huddlejonny
    Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭huddlejonny


    So I was driving home from the CVRT test centre in my camper ( which failed on a brake pad issue ) and the Alcove window above the drivers side started rattling violently on the dual carriageway. As I was slowing down to pull into the hard shoulder the window cracked off completely, luckily there were no cars behind me.

    Insurance with Aviva covered the claim for a new window but had to get a specialist to measure the dimensions before ordering the correct window. The specialist also spotted a big crack in the oppposite window over the passenger side of the van which I had not seen before. I clean the van regularly and it was a very recent crack that appeared.

    I have two questions regarding the CVRT for Campervans:

    Do the CVRT testers check the inside of the campervans, like a habitation service to see if things like the windows are fully fucntional or is there anyway something could have happened in the test centre that would have compromised the integrity of both the Alcove windows?

    Up until that CVRT test, both windows were in good shape and would have been used regular enough. And they definitely did not have any cracks in either of them, the handles & extension arms were also in good nick.

    If anyone can shed some light on this I would be interested to hear, cheers!



  • #865
    niloc1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭niloc1951


    I've always harboured a concern about the shaking of motorhomes which is part of the CVRT to check balljoints etc. in particular if going through the heavy test lane designed to rattle HGV's of up to 40 tonnes.

    With metal bodied vehicles I'm sure it's perfectly OK, but with the screwed and glued timber bodies of motorhomes I do wonder.



  • #866
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122063249#Comment_122063249

    They'd get a lot more rattling than that on the roads.



  • #867
    Homesick Alien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭Homesick Alien


    Does anyone know a "friendly" CVRT test centre in the Dublin area? I failed in Bray last time out and my mechanic said something to effect of yeah they're really tough there, you should try another centre. Not really sure where to go though



  • #868
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,054 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122573138#Comment_122573138

    What did you fail on?

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • #869
    Homesick Alien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭Homesick Alien


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122583366#Comment_122583366

    Smoke/emissions



  • #870
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,054 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122590296#Comment_122590296

    I’m guessing the van is recently serviced so I’d put a bottle of redex or similiar in tank, and drive it for a week. This will clean up the engine. Make sure it’s driven for at least half an hour before the test so the engine and exhaust are good and hot for it.

    No ‘friendly’ centre will be able to cheat the emissions machine

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



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  • #871
    Homesick Alien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭Homesick Alien


    My van will be 40 years old next year and so will be exempt from testing. I had always thought that you needed to have a current CVRT cert to apply for the vintage exemption, but looking at the CVRT website it doesn't say this. It says you don't have to apply for an exemption as your vehicle doesn't have to be tested.

    Does anyone have any experience of this? I don't have a current CVRT (it expired a year ago and hasn't been used since) and I was going about getting it ready for testing but it now sounds like I can just wait it out?



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