jont- wrote:If you want to get really arsey about it, I've been told by an ex-police driver you shouldn't belt up until /after/ the engine is running just in case the car catches fire as you turn it on.
Very good advice for TVR owners.
jont- wrote:If you want to get really arsey about it, I've been told by an ex-police driver you shouldn't belt up until /after/ the engine is running just in case the car catches fire as you turn it on.
Horse wrote:WhoseGeneration wrote:I was told for my IAM test, a long while ago, to make sure the Examiner had put his seatbelt on before I drove off.
Sure enough, when he got in the car he didn't fit his belt, some words from him and then I was told to start. I asked him to put his belt on before I started the engine.
Did you ask whether he had a medical exemption?
Smeeagain wrote:Horse wrote:WhoseGeneration wrote:I was told for my IAM test, a long while ago, to make sure the Examiner had put his seatbelt on before I drove off.
Sure enough, when he got in the car he didn't fit his belt, some words from him and then I was told to start. I asked him to put his belt on before I started the engine.
Did you ask whether he had a medical exemption?
Interesting. As it happens I cover off seatbelt in my cockpit drill. Having done the external of the car I start with left hand side of the interior of the vehicle. I start with passenger seatbelt and ask them to plug it in if they haven't yet done so. I then ask them to give the belt a short sharp tug to demonstrate that the inertia reel mechanism is working. That then becomes the prompt for me to do my seatbelt (although I note the 'after starting comment') and then do the cockpit drill from there
Smeeagain wrote:(although I note the 'after starting comment')
Smee
ratty wrote:(including a moving brake test done properly)
Silk wrote:ratty wrote:(including a moving brake test done properly)
Oh please. Who can be bothered with that?
Silk wrote:ratty wrote:(including a moving brake test done properly)
Oh please. Who can be bothered with that?
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