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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? 

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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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

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

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

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

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! :(

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