vic roads suprize inspections

[Mick]

Hey this may be nothing but i thought i would ask if anyone knows anything about it.

A woman my mum works with owns an imported car, a mazda or mitsubishi anyways she got a letter from vic roads telling her that she has to take her car an rta or something inspector to inspect the car and make sure its up to australian standards, she has had the car for ages so i dont know what is goin on ...

Anyone heard of anything goin on.

[R31Nismoid]

? news to me.

you dont just get em in the mail... EPA... yes, but not a RWC

[Ant97GTR]

As far as I know over the past couple of years vicroads and eqiv. have been trying cracking down on dodgy importers who don't complete the car compliance properly. I think if they find one they send out letters to a random selection of cars that have gone thru the workshop to ensure the compliance has been done correctly.

If anyone with some authority can confirm this it would be great.......

[ylwgtr2]

if anyone gets one of those letters take that letter and throw it straight in the bin....if they threaten to cancel the reg call them and tell them if they require the car to bring a hire car to your place of employment and collect you car from there and thats the last you will hear about it

[THE CHIEF]

It would have to do with being imported as mentioned by ant95GTR. I have a friend who was asked to bring his Prelude in because the place who imported where doing dodgys and using the same compliance details for several cars

[INASNT]

if anyone gets one of those letters take that letter and throw it straight in the bin....if they threaten to cancel the reg call them and tell them if they require the car to bring a hire car to your place of employment and collect you car from there and thats the last you will hear about it

hehe nice.

Noted down

[INASNT]

It would have to do with being imported as mentioned by ant95GTR. I have a friend who was asked to bring his Prelude in because the place who imported where doing dodgys and using the same compliance details for several cars

btw what happened to that thread with your claimed 1000Nm of torque at the back wheels??? :flamed:

[THE CHIEF]

Did I say it was at the back wheels? And I have a dyno graph here to show it so stfu

[INASNT]

For the 10th time its tractive effort not torque, unless you have a 8 litre turbo diesel truck engine hidden under your bonnet!!!!

[inark]

lol sly.. theres a huge difference

the bugati puts out 1000nm of torque... it has a huge engine with 4 turbos

[NismoR34]

...just to clarify a minor detail - the RTA has NOT existed in victoria for over 10 years, they have been called Vic Roads since about 1991 I think, RTA still exists interstate but not here [Road Traffic Authority] I dont understand why people still call them that :confused:

[ylwgtr2]

...just to claarify a minor detail - the RTA has NOT existed in victoria for over 10 years, they have been called Vic Roads since about 1991 I think, RTA still exists interstate but not here [Road Traffic Authority] I dont understand why people still call them that :confused:

being a bit anal there...i still call telstra telecom

[NismoR34]

being a bit anal there...i still call telstra telecom

yes perhaps. I think its a sign of ageing when you can't keep up with the times

My dad worked at Telecom for 18 years, up until about 1989/90 but left before it became telstra - so its always been easy for me to remember...

[PIMP_DAT]

if anyone gets one of those letters take that letter and throw it straight in the bin....if they threaten to cancel the reg call them and tell them if they require the car to bring a hire car to your place of employment and collect you car from there and thats the last you will hear about it

did you actually do that or is that your advise.

[KamikazeR33]

in nsw they do random checks

from memory im sure Prank got one

would just be the same in vic, more so to do with dodgy importers, but checks just to irritate u into selling ur import