You drive down a production line stopping at various stations while they check, lights, emissions from the exhaust, brakes and steering and then finally over an inspection pit where they check the chassis. The Beemer failed.
Not on anything they had checked on the production line but on the last bit of the inspection. The engineer looked inside and noticed that my airbag light was on. It was due to a voltage fault not the bags being inactive, but I had failed. Now I had 7 days to have the fault corrected.
Got the electrical engineer out to fix the voltage fault and took it back to the ITV station two days later. It was heaving, with about 30 cars waiting to go down the production line. Luckily the Lady of the Villa asked an engineer, who spoke some english, what we should do and he pointed us to another bay where our fault was examined.
The engineer got in switched off everything and put the ignition on to see all the warning lights “light up” then switched the engine on to see them all go out. This way you cannot just take the bulb out! We had passed. A ten minute wait, again in a queue while all the documentation was produced on a computer and we were off with our valid ITV certificate and a sticker on the screen to prove it. Total cost for the ITV was 35 Euros plus 30 Euros for the voltage correction.
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