re-registering a vehicle

[Crispy]

5 hours ago, dmulally said:

I'll be taking mine through LVV. So how did you know you needed a repair cert? Did the VIN tag Barry see your speed holes and make a note on your file or something? 

I asked if I needed a rust/body permission slip and the VIN tag guy said LVV would pick it up if it were a problem but for my car it wont be. 

I just front footed it.

The whole car is rusty as fk so just accepted it was needed 

[cletus]

i often suggest to customers, if the car has had any rust repair or stuff covered up, to get a repair certifier to have a look at it before /while any lvv repairs are done

this way, if the repair certifier wants anything fixed at the same time it can make things easier.

ie if the engine and box has to come out to fix up some shitty engine mounts

and the repair certifier wants a part of the chassis rail replaced

then it can all be done and painted in one go

also, if the repair cert guy looks at it and says it doesnt need a repair cert, then at least he has seen it and can supply documentation to prove that

 

i had a customer with a really nice HQ ute i certed once, it passed lvv cert, then went thru compliance, they wanted a repair cert, repair certifier wouldnt pass it without seeing all the repairs, it had to have most of the paint removed, cost the guy 13k to get it back to where it was before he drove it in the door at the compliance shop

[anglia4]

When I was getting ready to take my Galaxie through, I knew it needed a rust repair.

So I took it to my panel beater who said "No, talk to the repair certifier first".

Talked to the repair certifier and he said "No, take it to the compliance check first".

The justification was that then the compliance guys can flag ALL the things they want the repair certifier to check, and the repair certifier can oversee the repairs as they happen, and no one needs to do any re-work.

Repair cert guy said the only time to start with him, would be if it was going to be a big lengthy, full resto kind of project, where taking it to the compliance center first is a waste of time and money. (i.e my Austin 7 - Although I will still need to start there for the VIN tag assignment)

[cletus]

1 hour ago, anglia4 said:

 

The justification was that then the compliance guys can flag ALL the things they want the repair certifier to check

 

ah yes

i call this, the game of 'responsibility hacky sack'

i never rely 100% on what the compliance or wof guy says needs cert, as i know when they see a car with mods, they basically stop looking and just write things like "lvv cert required for all mods" to cover their ass in case they miss one thing

to me it should be up to the specialist in their area to pick up everything that needs to be covered by them, ie i should be able to figure out myself whats changed, not rely on ol mate jim at the testing station to tell me 

just had a car leave that needed a cert for efi conversion only, as thats what it failed wof on, but it turned out to have seat belts fitted front and rear that were not oem, so that needs cert as well, but its never been picked up by the wof guy.

then theres a whole discussion with the customer 'why are you checking the seat belts its just efi mods the wof guy didnt fail it for that'

[cletus]

also the pain in the bum there, is you get 28 days to fix it once its been through compliance, and that can be challenging to get a car through repairs/cert/ready for compliance recheck within that time, otherwise you have to pay again, unless they quarantine it but then theres other issues to deal with around that