Roadworthy pain

I bought a 130 in Queensland before Christmas and took it in for a blue slip here in NSW, thoroughly prepped before hand, should be a doddle.

Yep everything OK except you have to get a weighbridge ticket (just in case it's too heavy or too light???) and the long range tank needs an engineers certificate, and here's the card of someone who can do it.

The tank has a Queenlsand compliance plate complete with reference numbers, inspectors number etc but that's not good enough for NSW apparantly.

Weighbridge not a problem ($25.00) managed to get an appointment for the engineers certificate same day. The bloke has a look at the bull bar and says I need to get the indicators working, then looks at the rear tank and says suspiciously, "that's plastic". I point out that the plastic tank is the original and show him the long range tank under the right hand side of the cab. He literally tapped it with a finger and say's "that looks OK!" 10 minutes and I'm all done ($350!!!!!!)

I then take it back to get the blue slip man to sign off, that's another $60 to review the engineers report!

On the bright side only took 5 minutes at the RTA and the standard plates finish with my initials, bonus!

I'm thinking one Government might be a good idea.

Anyway, good luck with the rego.

Snapper

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Originally Posted by Snapper.VTR

He literally tapped it with a finger and say's "that looks OK!" 10 minutes and I'm all done ($350!!!!!!)

I then take it back to get the blue slip man to sign off, that's another $60 to review the engineers report!

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$410 for that? I'd have wanted a number plate with my full name in flashing letters!

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Originally Posted by Snapper.VTR

I'm thinking one Government might be a good idea.

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You're not bloody wrong! I used to moan about the annual MOT in the UK, but that made a lot of sense compared to this ... IMHO :)

I would go to another garage and get it a second opion on the roadworthy. My 110 has a second tank but and has been though 2 roadworthys that i know of with no problem

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Originally Posted by Reads90

I would go to another garage and get it a second opion on the roadworthy. My 110 has a second tank but and has been though 2 roadworthys that i know of with no problem

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As I understand it in QLD if the first garage have done a safety cert and knocked the vehicle back on the above points, then you cannot take it elsewhere, as the first garage is required to submit details of the faults to QT.

I've paid for the tests for the safety and gas certificates already through the original tester, so I might as well go back to him anyway.

Most of the 'leaks' are probably spillovers from clumsy fill-ups/drains I hope so one i've polished the hell out of the underside of the car the leaks should be 'fixed.'

I hope when they see the brand new steering box it will impress them anyway :D

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

As I understand it in QLD if the first garage have done a safety cert and knocked the vehicle back on the above points, then you cannot take it elsewhere, as the first garage is required to submit details of the faults to QT.

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Thats exactly right, I was talking to my RWC bloke yesterday and he was showing me the sheet that he sends into QT. He even has to mark if it was a Major or Minor fault. If after 2 weeks of the initial fail the customer returns back they have to pay the RWC inspection fee again. If after 6-7 weeks the failed customer doesn't show up thier details are sent of to QLD Transport. QT then check to see if the car has been re-registered with a RWC from another inspection station... if It has they deregister your car and won't re-register it untill you send it over "the pits" at a QT inspection station (the hardest to pass)

QT officers are getting around too, my RWC bloke has just been audited and told to clean himself up a bit, lazy with paperwork etc, he knows a couple of other places that have lost their licences for doing 'dodgy' RWCs

I've just had my 110 pas the local green slip and it has a Loneranger long range rear and two belly tanks. Never asked for any certification. First i knew of it in NSW?

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Originally Posted by scott oz

I've just had my 110 pas the local green slip and it has a Loneranger long range rear and two belly tanks. Never asked for any certification. First i knew of it in NSW?

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In NSW greenslip is an insurance certificate. I think you mean pink slip (no longer pink), which is the routine roadworthiness. This is much less rigorous than the blue slip, required for first NSW registration.

Similar to you, my 110 has a belly tank (fitted from new in NT in 1986) which has never been documented, and interestingly required no documentation when I moved from Victoria in 1995, although that was before the current blue slip existed - I had to go "over the pits" at the RTA, which gave no problems except that they got the number of seats wrong and got one digit wrong on the chassis number. (They probably did not realise there was a second tank!)

Reminds me a bit of when I moved to Victoria in 1971 - had to get a roadworthy on my Citroen. One of the inspection points was to remove a front wheel to inspect the brakes - which he insisted on doing. The Citroen DS has inboard front brakes, and removing the front wheel gives you a good view of a hub and front suspension arms and half axle - but no sign of any brakes. Opening the bonnet gives a clear view of the discs and pads! (If you know where to look)

John

So i fit the new steering box... after receiving a Disco 2 one first and having to send it back for a new one (dealt with very nicely as it happens)


And ... there's a bloody leak from one the return pipe where it joins to the box. Inspection suggests that there's a little o-ring on that pipe which I should probably have replaced before fitting it to the new box :twisted:

What a SOAB. Do I have any o-rings? No. Is there anywhere open to buy o-rings on sundays? No. Do I have it booked in for its retest at 8am on Monday.

YES! Looks like they'll have to fit an o-ring for me. And I so wanted to get it all done myself :(

Sulk time.

Sulk over.

Refitted the return pipe and it didn't leak.

Interestingly, the LPG tank fitted in VIC was not acceptable because a dirt shield covered the tap. This had to be modified for a safety certificate to be issued.

Otherwise it seems that I fixed up everything else well enough to pass.

One point worth another sulk, though.
Rego for 12 months was almost $200 more in Qld than in Vic :mad: