we've been suffering from this for ages now in ipswich shire. i got given a notice to appear for my steering wheel months ago cause there wasnt anything else. i was following 2 cars behind the patrol car doing 40 in a 50 zone which pulls over lets all cars go past then stings me. calls it a random licence check then blatently states "we didnt pull you over cause you were hooning but because you're driving the kind of car that is driven by hoons." they took 15 min to do the 'licence check" then gives me back my licence and says the steering wheel isnt adr approved. the car at that point had been through 3 rwc in 2 statesas well as compliance. its an r32 so no air bags or anything to worry about, still standard size etc they just HAD to get the skyline for something. when i tried telling them it had been through the pits at qld transport and compliance and rwc he started saying maybe he'd write me another notice for the wheels.....16' rims, said he believed they were bald....the tires had just been put on the day before. took another 15 min to write notice for court.
so i went to court and gave them all the documentation including a stat dec saying it was the same steering wheel as when the inspections were done and the prosecuting officer at the courthouse was like "WTF????? dont worry about it ill take care of it." so all sorted with no fine but still had to miss a day of work to go to court as well as being pulled over for half an hour with everyone shaking their heads and pointing fingers when id done nothing.