Pits: Why Are We Hated?

[rickytan]

Hi all,

Last week I was given a nice canary yellow sticker on my windscreen for my blow off valve... This apparently was too loud. The police officers could only find the BOV to be out of place, and not being adjustable, gave me a sticker. Now I always thought they have to find 2 or more things to give your car a sticker? Anyway I accepted the sticker thinking, ill put the factory BOV on and take it thru the pits.

PIT DAY:

Arriving at Kelmscott pits (might be my mistake) I waited in queue. Behind me was a P plater in an older commodore. The inspector came out and looked at me and failed me before I had even got out the car, making sly comments at my car making sure the P plater could hear... Which I found unnecessary.

The car is lowered to 100mm, and has a pretty large body kit on it. A turbo timer and a boost controller and (had) a BOV. The car is in great nick. Things he found wrong with my car: Suspension to hard, Window wipers were silver and so was water nozzle. Overall I found this to be bullshit and unfair.

Anyone know a way I can get thru the pits with out trev inspectors giving me grief? 

[Woodys]

Hi all,

Last week I was given a nice canary yellow sticker on my windscreen for my blow off valve... This apparently was too loud. The police officers could only find the BOV to be out of place, and not being adjustable, gave me a sticker. Now I always thought they have to find 2 or more things to give your car a sticker? Anyway I accepted the sticker thinking, ill put the factory BOV on and take it thru the pits.

PIT DAY:

Arriving at Kelmscott pits (might be my mistake) I waited in queue. Behind me was a P plater in an older commodore. The inspector came out and looked at me and failed me before I had even got out the car, making sly comments at my car making sure the P plater could hear... Which I found unnecessary.

The car is lowered to 100mm, and has a pretty large body kit on it. A turbo timer and a boost controller and (had) a BOV. The car is in great nick. Things he found wrong with my car: Suspension to hard, Window wipers were silver and so was water nozzle. Overall I found this to be bullshit and unfair.

Anyone know a way I can get thru the pits with out trev inspectors giving me grief? 

Yeah goto another RTA place like myaree thats the one i recommend. Unscrew the turbo timmer and hide it somewhere so they cannot see it and make sure it is turned off. Is boost controller manual or electronic? Dunno why he pick on silver stuff that part sounds BS to me.What about cars with chrome bumpers? Ride height will be a problem. Must be within legal height limits. Think BOV has to be plummback to be accepted. So it sounds like you have abit off mucking about to do to get it passed...Boy dont we just love our men in blue(NOT) heheh. Good luck mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mitchy_]

Anyone know a way I can get thru the pits with out trev inspectors giving me grief? 

soften your suspension, and make the wipers black?

just a suggestion.

[Driver]

pits dont like cars with crap stuck all over it like body kits, wings and coloured wipers

[rickytan]

Wipers, and water squirters were painted black this evening..

The height i dont know how im going about.. i mean i like the height it is now.. i dont wanna have to make it a Nissan Highline just to get it past the pits tho. Riduculous it went in for a BOV and he never even looked twice at the thing.

With the suspension, should i buy some stock front springs or something? A mate suggested using someone else to take the car?

I have a mate's sister in mind

Thanks for feedback guys, i think i might try welshpool next time

Ta.

[Travis_morris]

i went over at whelspool 2 get my car rego'ed few weeks back not 2 much greif... the guy looked really hard at the Driftwa.com sticker n then shrugged it off he seemed pretty cool took the car for a drive n acctually enjoyed it said it drove better then most of the others he had driven... so maybe give them a go... get there about 7.30am tho cause it gets hell packed as of about 8am...

Cheers Trav

[Shayde]

I have factory springs you can borrow if required.

[Chi100188]

hmmm is the dude at kelmscott some old dude wiht like soughta skin disease? if so thats what he bascially said about my supsension too hehe but i had TEIN HR suspension so hmmm go to welshpool much better lol

Cheers

Chi

[Flash89]

i was about to to ask the same question about the old guy in kelmscott, hes not a happy chappy. anyways welshpool is my best friend got my car past there twice. also how low did they say the car was, have you messured it yourself

[Chi100188]

ahahah true flash89 mmm yeah the old guy was hell scary lol mmm bad luck hahah

[R32 Driver]

i recommend welshpool too!

i passed with turbo timer but ur gonna have to do something about the ride height, plum back bovs are accepted as long as its not overly loud

dun bother gettin someone else to take it over, same shit diff smell

all luck, unless she has a wikid rack

[HypeR33]

I would recommend welshpool too...and if you ride height is 100mm at the lowest point it's legal, as long as indicators are above a certain height (which I cant remember) and headlights are minimum 500mm

[mitchy_]

remember: the car has to remain above 100mm even with a full load, ie. 5 people in the car.

if they want to be pricks they will test that.

[Flash89]

they didnt test that with me but they did notice that i did raise my car but still didnt test it and the lowest part on my car was 98mm with no one in it

[Chi100188]

heheh hmmm i got my mom to take it through hehe so i guess next time its yellow for me ill get my parents ot take it through

[rickytan]

Yeah it was an old guy... He was horrible. Thanks for the offer of lending me your springs, but I’m going to buy some stock springs tomorrow from the wreckers incase I need to put the car over the pits again in the future. Once on ill try Welshpool, thanks for the heads up!

[33Spec2]

dont go to east perth either! i just failed also because my wipers were faded and silver and i dont have sum stupid child safety clips and my exhaust is 2 loud yet it passed over the pits with the same exhaust at welshpool a while back so annoying

[Rhianne]

i dont get it? how does having faded/silver windscreen wipers make your vehicle unroadworthy? thats the biggest load of shit ever :S

[Pulp]

I heard it's somthing to do with glare! freakin stupid!!

[Rhianne]

glare...? maybe if they were chrome or something but a dull/faded silver colour? ... that will cause f**kall glare