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well today was my court date and to put a quite long story short i still ahve my licence despite having 3 bald tyres on 2 seperate cars about 6 months apart. i wasent expecting it but they sympathised with me and gave me the minimum 5 pound per tyre fine and 40 pounds courts costs, to be payd 5 pound a week, lol i feel verry lucky and i WILL check my tyeres all the time now, beleive me i know how close i came to loosing my licence it is not a nice place to be, feeling great now tho:)

hear comes the mini!!

well done, so no points either?

NOW TAKES THIS AS A LESSON, AND LEARN FROM IT!!!!!!!!

well done again

(i got my license back today, I lost it last year,
- last time i saw it was castle comber, god knows where i left it)

no points:) the guy that decided (i am not sure of his title but he was a top bloke lol) admitted he has had bald tyres before he noticed and things, its an easy over sight. and i stated that i was legal and always have been in every other way, tax, mot insurance etc. legal advisor was on my side becouse i had no solicitor.

:)

yep u was very lucky, to be honest tho i had looked at your car loads of times and never noticed a low tyre either. i still have them pics...





They werent that bad at all it was the tracking out that made them go so fast i reckon

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

wow look at how mucky my car is! that was about a month ago and i stil havent washed it, i think it will need scraping off when i finally come to it. lol

You got ticketed for them???

That looks borderline enough for the copper just to give you a vehicle defect notice; not to actually ticket you...
Either the copper was an a-hole, or you pissed him off - or we're looking at the best tyre of the lot?
I thought i was going to be looking at slicks to be honest. Be interesting to see what MFT (myfirstturbo) will say!

a-hole Dave? you've been in Americashire to long.

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

well done, im pleased for you.
Now, like the others say learn from it (and sell the nova LOL)

For a start, well done I suppose, I agree with Dave that I think you were unlucky to be taken to task over the tyre shown in the picture, OK, it is low, but it is obvious that it has only just crossed the borderline, it is not as if you have been driving about on slicks for months.

My advice to you would be to consider what the worst case scenario could have been.....license lost, big fines. With that in mind, after you have finished paying off your fine and costs, keep putting that £5 a week away, as a fund for tyres, tax, insurance, MOT, all the other things you need to stay legal. Then, when an unexpected bill comes in for your daily driver, you will have a few quid put by to repair or buy whatever is needed. OK, you will be a bit down on spending money each week, but think of the position you COULD have been in this morning otherwise........

tom you make great sense i will try to stick to that.
i exepected to leave the court minus my licence and a lot lighter in the wallet(see other thread) so i feel ontop of the world right now.
that was the only tyre ont he corsa, 6 months preveus to that i was stopped with 2 bald tyres on my nova.
i think the only reason he leaned was becouse the court dident know i had already been done for having 1 bald tyre, so he was looking at it as my first offence, i felt cheeky tbh but what was i suposed to do.
the coppers at the time actually said i am the most polite person they have pulled in a verry long time. for that tyre i got a 60 pound fine and 3 points, fixed penalty.
for the 2 on the nova i got 5 pound per tyre and court costs.

and the nova will be scrapped soon

thats good advice tom il try to stick to that myself, as those unexpected bills do come now and again. your a lucky lad dan, hope you get the mini done as soon as you can now.

It happens to us all, I still try to keep a few quid aside in case one of my cars suddenly craps out, or needs say tyres or an exhaust suddenly.

Although having a bit of a fleet to choose from does alleviate the pressure somewhat it has to be said!

mini is well on its way and i know how lucky i am:) when you tell him you only had the nova cos it was diesel and you took your mini off the road for a rebuild i think they start to beleive your more respectablel than the avrg nova driver.

Dan

dave, no that was the worse tyre :)

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

lucky i recon the copper was out to bust you for whatever! reason
seen your a young lad
thats what they do

them tyres are like brand new compared to my slicks on the flying armchair mondao.