Chassis painting

[Tins]

This is just a story that I thought might affect some. It is third hand, but I trust the guy who told me.

Bloke took his OKA for a RWC. He'd done heaps to it, and it looks great. Got his RWC ( different RWC for light trucks in Vic ). Had to take it to Vicroads for inspection prior to registration. This is usually a formality to check numbers etc., and engineering plates. Not this time. Inspector crawled all over it, and found ONE chassis rivet that had "insufficient material" on the rivet head. Corrosion had caused this, and had been addressed pretty well, most people thought. The owner had applied a kind of Raptor bedliner paint to the entire chassis. The inspector basically accused him of trying to hide defects. TheRWC was cancelled, the RWC tester who approved it initially had his licence suspended for three months, and the owner was forced to strip the entire chassis back to basically bare metal.

Reason I'm relating this is, the tester quite reasonably now refuses to test vehicles with Raptor style coatings on ladder chassis, and I imagine that word has got around. So, if you're rebuilding, maybe check. You never know when Mr Anal will be coming.

[Slunnie]

Far out, that is rediculously harsh and unreasonable.

The other option, is they could have just said to replace the bolt and carried on with their day.

I suspect there was some other agenda going on there!

[Tins]

Far out, that is rediculously harsh and unreasonable.

The other option, is they could have just said to replace the bolt and carried on with their day.

I suspect there was some other agenda going on there!
That’s how I see it. But VicRoads. [bighmmm][bighmmm]

Who knows what the agenda might be in this day and age? Personally I’d rather not have to strip off $hundreds of paint because of a bureaucrat. I would fully understand if the thing was a rustbucket, but he had basically rebuilt it.
here I was thinking of painting my OKA and my 109 chassis with the stuff. You know, rust prevention and all that.

[Don 130]

Some of those inspectors let the power go to their heads. A few years ago, a local inspector declared the turntable on our prime mover to be F---ked and needed to be replaced. We took the truck to a different station where it passed and has done every time since with the same turntable.
Perhaps your friend needs to get an engineer to make a report on it.
Don.

[V8Ian]

I have felt your pain, Don.