Leon

I guess because people would buy "replica" Chinesium seats, made out of wobble and bend, bolted up badly, to shoddily welded together seat mounts, with the seatbelt anchorage held on with seagull droppings. So while it is unlikely to make the car crash, it will have a negative outcome on safety if the car drove into something* *worst case scenario presented because it's more entertaining, while also containing elements of facts.

Yup, I was trying to avoid answering that For a really by the words WOF person, they'd be able to fail the car at WOF. So if you want to be 100% argumentproof, keep it matching your plate. In reality, it's likely you'd keep on getting WOF's anyway.

Watch for seats where the seatbelt anchorage is on the seat rails rather than directly seatbelt base to floor ... change to seatbelt anchorage = cert, and there's some severely dodgy aftermarket seat rails with seatbelt anchorage points vaguely welded onto the runners, mostly holding together with hopes and prayers.

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/resources/factsheets/27/docs/27-exempt.pdf Using an unregistered vehicle on any other road Using an unregistered vehicle on any road other than a private road is illegal. However, if you’re fined, you may have a defence. It’s your responsibility to prove that you’re entitled to use an unregistered vehicle in that situation. You’ll have a defence if the vehicle is: edit snip • a motor vehicle normally propelled by mechanical power that is being temporarily towed (one time, not regularly) without the use of its own power

I engraved it on the back of the plate. MOOAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I thought it was mandatory, all vans be converted to rotary, in Hamilton.

Whups didn't see that it was already answered. Nothing to see here.

Nope. Those presented for inspection all failed welding test.

Nope. It *needs* a cert, because there is no clause in the WOF rules that allows for it without cert. As per Cletus' post below, a lot of them cause trouble because of issues like balljoint bind.

Strut spacers need a cert. Unless it's listed here, as not needing a cert, it needs a cert. See linky link, tables and images tab https://vehicleinspection.nzta.govt.nz/virms/in-service-wof-and-cof/general/steering-and-suspension/steering-and-suspension-systems

You're not imagining it. Vehicles where there is a separate chassis with its own identifier on it, you go to VTNZ / VINZ etc (compliance place) with the vehicle, and proof that you own both identities. They then link your body / chassis mismatch together. They select one identity (I don't know if they use body or chassis identity) which becomes The Vehicle. They then make behind the scenes computer notes, to ensure that the same vehicle doesn't get registered twice (so if you're using the body, they then ensure that the chassis identity isn't re-registered by somebody else using that same chassis/vin number. I don't know how every scenario works, as I don't know everything about it. For the Escort question which sparked the discussion: no, you can't legally pull the identifiers off another shell. Identifiers, plates, and chunk of metal with wheels all need to be from the same vehicle. Otherwise stolen and re-identified cars would be even more common than they currently are.