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regardless it's a daily or a "collectible", 6 monthly wof is no big deal if you got your car in tip top shape, as it should be. if you can't manage your dozen-car fleet to be roadworthy and wof'd, i think you got your hands too full.

and i don't see why responsible daily driver owners who keep their cars fully roadworthy treated any different to responsible "collectible" owners, if wof is to be exempted.

I wonder if LTNZ (or whoever is in charge) did the numbers in terms of accidents caused by mechanical faults (or WOF inspection fail) vs vehicle age for vehicle less than 3 years old, vs 2000~, vs pre-2000 vs 40 year old + (as per rego  reduction threshold)? also vs total mileage.

i assume the former would give roughly bell curve, the latter exponential.

or whichever comes first.

EDIT. yes i concur.

mitsuoka with the usual factory options

a couple of crappy photos of mk2

and some sort of mitsi

who writes VIRM? having an interesting (but very trivial, to be honest) discussion with NZTA at the moment but they should ve been sent back to school first...

im sure you can casually turn up, do some k11 barry sharn and some wheeling and dealing.lol

it's on mt albert rd, between pah rd and hillsborough rd, opposite marcellin college ish.

someone s keen on k11 out of aftermarket ding options.

that your new acquisition direct import from japan?

For installation of monsoon shields (and a whole bunch of others, quite often) VIRM says

"In-service requirements for condition and performance must be met."

What does it actually mean?

The specific question I have though is, if there are any transparency requirements, can it be opaque (I think I've seen ones made out of metal, for older cars) for monsoon shields,

If the area of the side glass where monsoon shield overlap needs to meet 35% VLT combined etc.

what about the horse shit

is it legal to ride horse in the city?

im curious to read about this sort of discussion 100 years back re: ICE powered cars in its infancy. no. seriously. Letters to editor type deal or maybe early version of talkbalk.

I think it pops the windscreen end so the head doesn't smash so hard.

You can do when you go thru diagnosis mode and change a whole bunch of settings. 

4 minutes ago, Vintage Grumble said:

Was interesting to hear that it cant be sold in many countries outside of the US, due to it not meeting the pedestrian impact laws that most countries have.

i thought the US was the nanny state when it comes to cars? like fuel economy, 5 mph bumber, emission etc etc.

speaking of which, a lot of citroen c6 owners disabled the bonnet impact pyro thing which makes it peds friendly when ped-car collision, because it pretty much writes the car off.

im pretty sure the rebate kicked the price up by about the same amount when it was introduced, at least the cars i was looking at

we get ripped off for brand new EV here compared to overseas like anything else, i presume?

On 27/11/2023 at 12:10, locost_bryan said:

Nissan to invest US$1.4b to make EV versions of its best-selling cars | Stuff.co.nz

oh i'm so disappointed that it's not k11.

2 hours ago, DoBro Jesus said:

Yeah so I bitched out and bought this CantBeFucked250. Purely cause it was cheap as. 1k with a brand new wof. Couple scratches and shit here and there but meh I'm probably gonna dump it a couple times anyway. 

Runs well and rides sweet as. Not a powerhouse by any stretch but it'll do to wham me through the licenses. Is a cunt to get into neutral while the engine is running and it's stopped so hoping an oil change and a clutch cable adjustment fixes it. Overall I'm happy for what I paid, figure ya can't go too wrong at that price.

more importantly it has a matching-ish colour with multipla.