Bling Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Best idea to send all that through. I had to do some welding for recheck and sent through photos for checking. Got the ok to paint and final check was done with it all finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 8 hours ago, zep said: Ok, sweet. I guess I just don't want to have it all nice and neat only to find that I need to do something major that requires repainting things. With the painted suspension/chassis/etc, you still want to see unpainted pics of welds and stuff right? If it's just got a coat of black on it, usually ok and don't need to see it in the nude If it was getting filler or powdercoat then need to see it first You can usually see if a weld is OK thru regular paint 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 https://vehicleinspection.nzta.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/98575/In-service-WoF-and-CoF-VIRM-March-2024-amendment-preview.pdf This was sent around work today. From March 24 you can new fail a WOF on your licence plates not being up to spec, and that includes the plates not being official (with the correct markings) and even goes as far as to indicate date and letter ranges for the types of plates. So if you had an aftermarket supplier convert your plates that are newer than MX#### to black, they have grounds to fail them since they know they are too modern, and don't have the reflective NZ logo of modern black plates. It also straight up says that plates have to me aluminium, so a sticker plate now fails a WOF. Plates too dirty, fail. Plates worn or faded, fail. Gonna be a lot of people caught by this. 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 It's for safety, we swear. Guess that means they want to be able to read the plates... so... lets see what comes next. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Pre-86 plates are the ones to have! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsspeed Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 15 minutes ago, Bling said: hey want to be able to read the plates unlike the new reflective black plates at night you mean, lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Yeah I wonder if that loop hole has been closed yet. You know what I mean though, *puts on tinfoil hat*. Zero interest in decal plates or homemade plates forever, then all of a sudden they care. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKtrips Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 7 hours ago, KKtrips said: 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. Good spotting, but I'd wager that unless you've somehow removed the factory fittings, they'll fail it until you refit it as standard. I guess it depends how much of a dick you wof man is though. Regarding the black plates, I'm surprised they haven't pulled them yet or done some sort of swap out recall to fix the ones you can't read in the dark. All in the interests of safety, no doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VintageSpecial Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 I've always wondered what the story is for vintage cars like mine with a long, pointy tail. Traditionally the number was painted on the tail side. Can't do that now. I can mount the rear plate to one side or the other but the tail means it is only visible from one side. You can't really put it under the tail. Might have to do like they did on Austin 7 Speedy cars where it's on a board sitting on top of the tail (with stop lamps either side)? The front is easy at least, it fits between the front dumb irons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 May as well scrap my dies now 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 5 minutes ago, ajg193 said: May as well scrap my dies now No security features on those plates, so you should be good to go on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 The Barries at VTNZ didn't specify that AA-DPish use square edged letters and 2.5mm thick plates. Up until something like IA they then used chamfered letters and after that they moved to 2mm thick plates with chamfered letters. They ain't gonna be able to catch 'em all 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 3 hours ago, Nominal said: No security features on those plates, so you should be good to go on. As long as the plates made arent more modern than MX#### I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Hold up one dirty darned second. You need to have a WoF to issue a car with plates/register it. You need to have plates to get a WoF. New WoF rules state you can't use a trade plate for WoF How are they going to work around this inconsistency? 1 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ul9601 Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXFORD Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Makes sense as trade plates are not registered to a specific vehicle, they are registered to a business. At entry/first reg you don't need plates for registration, you need a vin/chassis number and the temp paperwork states a wof inspection has been carried out to allow you to reg and get plates assigned. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 34 minutes ago, RXFORD said: Makes sense as trade plates are not registered to a specific vehicle, they are registered to a business. At entry/first reg you don't need plates for registration, you need a vin/chassis number and the temp paperwork states a wof inspection has been carried out to allow you to reg and get plates assigned. Who attaches the WOF sticker? More running around I suppose. I just bought an un-plated import. It had a WOF and when I arrived we ran it around to VTNZ and had the plates issued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Early jap nuter Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Years ago when I was importing cars the warrants were issued at the compliance place and if they weren’t registered within a certain time they de reged and had to go back to compliance,think it was a year not sure but that was back 2008ish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 4 hours ago, Nominal said: I just bought an un-plated import. It had a WOF and when I arrived we ran it around to VTNZ and had the plates issued. Same with my Alto, seller ran it through compliance, it got a WOF, and I just took the MR2A to VTNZ and they exchanged money for plates. They didn't even need to see the car. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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