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  1. 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

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

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  2. 8 minutes ago, Ned said:

    Lol, I am packed and ready to roll tomorrow after work, but don't wanna step on Al's toes if that's his special alone time night and can just come early Saturday

    Roll in whenever you are ready, I don't think there are specific nights set aside for Allan. If there is, then park in the corner and you can watch him from afar.

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  3. 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)

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  4. 30 minutes ago, Mourning Cupcake said:

    Huh, turns out I probably do have time. Just trolled through heaps of old wagnats threads, but most of the good photos are watermarked 'photobucket' or dont exist anymore.

     

    If anyone has any good pics from pre 2018 flick em through!

    I got a bunch at home. Perhaps start a coffee table book thread for pictures?

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  5. 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?

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    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.

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  6. 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.

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