KKtrips

14 minutes ago, kws said:

I'm curious, what tipped you off they aren't real?

I checked their Facebook account and it had one photo and the account was created the day before they started the petition.

On 26/02/2024 at 19:30, morkster said:

One year wofs for everything.

 

Thank you/

This.

On 17/02/2024 at 11:49, EForrest said:

The new Minister of Regulation, the Hon David Seymour, is an engineer petrol head. I've created a petition for him at https://www.change.org/De-RegNZTA asking to change the rules for collectible cars.

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Why? The NZTA first-import rules since used car dealers imported flood-damaged Japanese write offs are not written for collectible cars. The VIN inspectors have little experience in collectible cars, the barriers and costs are unreasonable. The same with lapsed registration.

Likewise, WOF every six months for collectible cars (cars of historic interest over 30 years of age) is unreasonable but supported by lobbying by the likes of the Motor Trade Association, AA, approved entry certifiers, LVV certifiers and others who argue safety when even the LTSA admits there is no evidence 6 month WOF's save lives or prevent injury to people or property.

 

The UK is way over-regulated but they allow import of collectible cars with far fewer barriers. Their MOT (WOF equivalent) is annual not every six months, and when a car reached 40 years there is no MOT (WOF), no road tax, exempt from ULEZ and new imports pay 5% GST (or zero) and only have to pass the MOT, not a strip-down and show zero repairs or pay a certifier to approve

 

The best comment from those who signed the petition is this one from

 

Tony Flay·6 days ago

I have been a vehicle inspector for 30 years including working in vehicle compliance. I have seen and helped many people trying to bring in good classic and collectible cars. In my opinion the industry has become over regulated and often staffed by people with no understanding of classic cars, and many cars have been failed for not meeting standards that didn't exist when the cars were manufactured. I have also seen cars repeatedly fail on a moving list of items that have no bearing on safety, which is a money grabbing exercise for the inspection organizations.

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If you agree we need to stand up to the insiders who have pressed these laws not because our collectibles are dangerous, but because they are a meal ticket for them, please sign the petition, post it on forums, email it to your friends and take the link to meetups and get everyone to sign the petition.

 

SIGN THE PETITION at https://www.change.org/De-RegNZTA AND SPREAD THE WORD. If the custom link does not work, use https://chng.it/HXCJ8rjTZN

If you have to create a fake persona to start a petition, I wonder how serious you are.

3 hours ago, Nominal said:

Yeah nah, they don't need to be on the bumper but you need front facing lamps

Thats class LE - a trike.

10 hours ago, Truenotch said:

Yeah, I can reset your password @Hogibear

You can also combine the accounts. (or I can)

17 minutes ago, yoeddynz said:

I want to re-do the imp dash in the future and like that style. How much did that lot cost? (guessing I will probably need to sit down) 

Including freight from the USA was US$750. The surround was AU$250 (actually the surround was double that, but I ordered the first one when I was buying other gauges and I changed my mind so I had to get a second one made)

19 hours ago, oldrx said:

Yeah just a plain hole for a banjo bolt I assume, if I cut this down I would need to remove material to the point it cuts approx 1mm off the diameter of the circular recessed section leaving the wall around 3.6mm thick on that side, would think that would be plenty?

Looks like the hose needs to be rotated 1/4 of a turn anticlockwise (on the square), are the hoses routed correctly? Are they the correct hoses for the vehicle?

You don't want to be taking any meat off the calliper, it could be tricky to prove that it has not affected the stength of the calliper, even though a finger in the air test says it will be fine, I wouldn't.

2 hours ago, kws said:

https://vehicleinspection.nzta.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/98575/In-service-WoF-and-CoF-VIRM-March-2024-amendment-preview.pdf

so a sticker plate now fails a WOF.

See Note 4 (or 5, I can't remember which - I looked at it earlier today), I have a stick on plate on the front of my Prius and I will be using that as an out if I get poked by my WoF inspector.

7 minutes ago, Nominal said:

@KKtrips

Do you still want this? I'm decluttering

 

I would love it, but nah, I'm also decluttering at the moment.

5 minutes ago, RXFORD said:

Another issue I see, is how can it be proven the bullbar is non-oem or a not factory fitted option?

I'd be surprised if cops/wof inspectors had an approved list with pics and info, and then to go a step furthur are police/wof inspectors going to have issues with pre '99 non-frontal impact vehicles because they don't fully know the rules?

Don't get me wrong, I think a bunch of shiny mall crawler 2wd utes with winch bars that are only held on by a few 10mm fasteners is pretty lame, but seems like it may not have been thought out too well and unfortunatly Lvvta will probably bare the brunt of it. 

They have to have an ADR compliant label on the bullbar.

A dealer would only sell factory bulbars etc which will be airbag compliant.

I need to do a Facebook post on LVVTA page about he Bullbars thing but I put off doing it on a Friday because I wasn't mentally prepared for the pushback over the weekend.  

31 minutes ago, ajg193 said:

What is defined as a recognised spring manufacturer? Any ltd company that advertises spring manufacturing?

Last time Alex did a write up on his spring modification adventures for the Viva he showed that he heated the ends, bent them down and then ground them to look OEM. I guess this would be illegal if detected by cert inspection?

Yes

9 minutes ago, Vk304 said:

 

 

Sweet, they definitely did not do them when I was looking a couple years ago. Crane did them but they were well over a thousand bucks just for the cam.

I wrote this response before you posted above but it might be worth saying for others knowledge, if its a cam designed for a flat tappet and you use it with roller lifters, it will fuck the roller wheel, a flat tappet cam has a very slight side to side slope on the lobe to rotate a flat tappet lifter and a roller lifter on a flat tappet profile will mean all of the valve spring pressure will be concentrated on one side of the roller wheel. It might be OK, but I would be not wanting to risk it.

@Vk304, I did not know Mace made a roller cam for the Iron Lion? When I was researching for mine, all of their 304 stuff was for flat tappet cams.

Stupid question, does it need an exciter wire?

Yeah of course you can dump at mine. Suffficient room permitting, or chuck it in my spot at @Unclejakes lockup, again, room permitting. I'll move whatever is mine to make room for you.

21 minutes ago, GARDRB said:

This feels like a dumb question and I'm almost embarrassed to ask. 

If a car is certified it has to be within a certain camber range. If I'm just on lowering springs and the camber is achieved through factory adjustment can I run say 3-4 degrees camber for a WOF? Is there anything in the VIRM about alignment?

Technically no but excessive wheel alignment can cause handling issues. This means that if the vehicle veers significantly to one side, or the vehicle requires unreasonable force to steer, or the steering is unreasonably stiff, rough or light, or the vehicle does not handle safely under normal conditions of road use, eg the suspension is excessively hard or soft, or there is excessive body roll, or the vehicle does not self-centre, then it fails.

On 11/10/2023 at 20:45, cletus said:

cut the carpet out if it's got modified seats 

A round bit of pipe sharpened like a gasket punch, then made hot with a propane torch melts the carpet edge so it doesn't fray and makes a neat hole 

I put a nail through the carpet to mark the bolt hole in the floor. Then used a 12mm socket on an extension, heated the socket till it had a cherry red ring at the leading edge and the nail was a great target to lower the socket around, it burnt through the carpet and insulation leaving a perfectly round hole, plus it had the benefit of a nice cauterized the edge of the carpet so it wouldn't unravel (good old el-cheapo synthetic carpet material). Definitely far better than the old drill through the carpet jobby I used to do which just ended in multiple holes and with frayed carpet sticking out.  

17 hours ago, Nominal said:

Probably applies to LVVTA staff too.

Fuck no.