Nominal Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Why won’t the cops recover it? 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motu Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Buggered if I know...he's probably got it around the back of the house, and they need a reason to search. I'll have to hope for the next Meth bust. I've put it back in my name twice now, so he's probably got a heads up that somethings wrong. If that's the case he'll get a new plate for it,easy enough. I wasn't putting WoFs on it anymore, but had put a new axle in it 15 years ago - all I really want is the axle so I can build a new trailer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Do any of you wof guys know when the virm rules for general trailers brakes changed? In that now they have to be 20% balance and 50% efficiency. There's a few trailers I know that are probably going to get their brakes removed because of this. They aren't required to have them, but it's too difficult and expensive to make them pass. More safe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowzer Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 How the hell do you test that? Most workshops don't have brake rollers. Mine included. Even with a brake roller, how would you test that? The dinky little handbrake lever puts on nowhere near the pressure as the tow hitch does 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Exactly Fail 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Wof guy backed the car up with the trailer on the rollers. Gave me a fail, 25% efficiency. I took the trailer back to the workshop wasting the customers money stripping and inspecting and finding brakes faultless. Went back, guy backed it up again, fail. Had to ask him if I could pull the lever (remember I'm not a general public, or I'd never be allowed in the lane) braced on the front of the trailer and managed to get 52% with my foot on the handle. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 I've got another today that's an old axle made by BPW a commercial axle manufacturer. It's cable brakes, same tow hitch arrangement as a hydraulic override. Works fucking amazing.... 35% imbalance. No parts available because too old. I think I'm going to cut the cables and weld the hitch solid. Trailer weighs 940kg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 20 minutes ago, Mof said: Wof guy backed the car up with the trailer on the rollers. Gave me a fail, 25% efficiency. I took the trailer back to the workshop wasting the customers money stripping and inspecting and finding brakes faultless. Went back, guy backed it up again, fail. Had to ask him if I could pull the lever (remember I'm not a general public, or I'd never be allowed in the lane) braced on the front of the trailer and managed to get 52% with my foot on the handle. It sounds more to me like something that is targeting electric trailer brakes? Maybe? Otherwise the variables on that are way too fucking wild to even attempt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustHarry Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Sounds like a bit of a have Usually trailer brakes are just sorta like yeah they arnt dragging and they stop a free wheeling wheel so the do something Good to go 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustHarry Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 @Mof i guess its in there but most places cant enforce it easily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowzer Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 We'll make the roads safer by encouraging people to remove their trailer brakes to pass a wof and then massively exceed their unbraked tow rating... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 All I'm hearing is, avoid all testing stations. Which is what I've done religiously for for the last twenty five years. (You should have seen how ling the fail sheet was last time too) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valiant Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 @Mof Take it in loaded. That often helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 It's a compressor trailer E.g: More loaded means more braking needed to get efficiency %. I went somewhere else. They drove it up the lane, heavy braked a couple times, pass. Gah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 5 hours ago, RUNAMUCK said: All I'm hearing is, avoid all testing stations. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 5 hours ago, RUNAMUCK said: All I'm hearing is, avoid all testing stations. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 5 hours ago, RUNAMUCK said: All I'm hearing is, avoid all testing stations. 3/3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustHarry Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Mof said: It's a compressor trailer E.g: More loaded means more braking needed to get efficiency %. I went somewhere else. They drove it up the lane, heavy braked a couple times, pass. Gah Whats it weigh? Wouldn't be very heavvy. If its an issue just put an unbraked coupling on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 I've mentioned this in another thread but I'll put it here as well Now is your chance to have your say here https://lvvta.org.nz/documents.html#consultation on the wheels and tyres chapter of the CCM which is being updated Theres a couple of issues but the big one in my opinion, is the mudguard requirements, which will be the same as the wof requirements. The problem is nobody enforces the wof rules so theres literally thousands of vehicles that dont comply, even brand new ones. The problem is once it's in the book, a car going through cert will need mudflaps fitted to pass... I dont think it has been considered how many vehicles this will affect 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 I had a couple of cars in today so put cardboard on them where a flap would be required under the proposed rule 5 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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