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taking the MR2 through dickson pits this week, just wanted to ask a few questions

my car doesn't have the tyre placard, do i have to find one off another MR2 or...

also my spare tyre doesn't have the 80kmph limit on it...

any help?

oh, and whats the rule regarding high mount break lights?

mark?

i'm REALLY stressing about this, as rego ends 3 of march...thursday

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taking the MR2 through dickson pits this week, just wanted to ask a few questions

my car doesn't have the tyre placard, do i have to find one off another MR2 or...

also my spare tyre doesn't have the 80kmph limit on it...

any help?

oh, and whats the rule regarding high mount break lights?

mark?

i'm REALLY stressing about this, as rego ends 3 of march...thursday

You'll probably need a tyre placard. Someone I know printed one out on a sticker you use for mail or similar and stuck it on (you need to get a scan or something of an original one)

Your spare would have an 80kmp/h sticker on it if it's been engineered. Has this car been registered before?

High mount brake lights are required on post 86 cars (from memory) if you don't have one, you can buy one from clints/the warehouse and stick it on your rear window. Wire it into your exisiting brakes (not too hard at all).

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i've got a tyre placard, but it's in japanese, but i hope that'll do

the spare tyre doesn't have the 80kmph sticker anywhere, which is surprising.

car HAS been engineered to the ADR, and has been registered in sydney.

is the 80kmph sticker available from tyre stores?

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i've got a tyre placard, but it's in japanese, but i hope that'll do

the spare tyre doesn't have the 80kmph sticker anywhere, which is surprising.

car HAS been engineered to the ADR, and has been registered in sydney.

is the 80kmph sticker available from tyre stores?

A japanese tyre placard is not acceptable at Dickson. I got absolutely reamed for this. I got one off an aus delivered GTR (brand new from Nissan) and they still failed it saying it was JDM model and needed the appropriate placard from either the original compliancer (who is now out of business - was complianced back in 1999) or from an engineer. So in the end I had to get the wheels engineered (the engineer also gives you the spare tyre max speed sticker, although dickson didnt check mine).

Have you got the engineering certificate? It might have the appropriate modifications in place, but it -needs- to be engineered or Dickson wont even look at the car.

Good luck :(

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I think you might be able to avoid going to dickson.

if the car is more than 10 years old, you dont have to take it to dickson. i don't know why, but thats what happened with me. my car is a 93', and was registered in NSW. i just took it down to my friend who does rego checks and he passed it on the spot. changed over to ACT rego no problem. same with my last car too.

you should be able to just take it to anywhere that does inspections and it shouldn't be a problem.

or maybe i'm just lucky.......

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i needed the right placard and the 80kmh markings.

from memory, we used a permanent marker to write 80 kmh on both the rim and the tyre on both sides (nice and neat like).

correct tyre placard i had to get from the compliancer (ugh).

good luck mate!!!! :)

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the more stories i hear the more i think i had it easy despite getting annoyed with them. when i was their the only things they checked were my lights low and high beams. break lights., reverse light, they checked my engine bay numbers had a quick look underneath and did the hand brake test. they didnt evne look at the place car on the 80km thing.

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this is all strange....I got my car from nsw and it's an 89 model, all I did was get rego inspection from tez then went to a government shopfront and it was done. I do have the engineers certificate though so maybe that's all you need :confused:

i agree. same happened to me with a newer car! i'd try and avoid dickson if you can. its worth a shot anyway.

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Amaru

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My bad, I completely missed the part where its already registered.

If its already rego'd you can do as mentioned above (roadworthy and shopfront) if its not rego'd or only on temp rego, it will need to go over dickson.

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Yeah dude you dont need to go to dickson and nobody else will notice any of that!

HOWEVER!!! I went and had my rego done at a workshop and then realised I needed to go to dickson for a VID check (as the car was coming in from NSW) When I went in for the VID check they Defected me...

Try to avoid that! Do the VID check first, if you need one... I think you do.

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