Reply With QuoteSo are you gonna do it?
ChatterBox
So, innocently, I think, "Maybe I'll just take out the automatic from my 1983 Range Rover and put in the manual option for that year, the LT95. Just using factory parts, so the car isn't any different from what the factory did."
It's not like it would be unusual.
So, innocently, I call the Department of Transport, and wait for twenty minutes, and then a young man listens, goes off for help, and then listens, and goes off for help, and this goes on for about another twenty minutes.
And this is how it works:
You print the application form from their website and send it in. But there's an eight-week wait at the moment.
Then, when you get approval, you do the job. (He seemed highly confused that I would be doing the work myself.)
Then you take it to an approved engineer to spend money getting him to say that it is indeed done properly - which I'm sure the Land Rover factory would be glad to know.
Then the car goes over the pits and they say that it's alright.
Then you take the whole lot of papers to the Department and they change your rego from "automatic" to "manual".
BUT - where do you find an engineer? Ah . . . they have a list.
BUT - their list is not complete. Even though they're a government department. So if you're not in Perth, which is where their list covers, you have to go fossicking for your own engineer, and send in his details with the application. Then, if they approve him, he can sign it off.
So that means that your first step is to send in your application form for approval, and also send in your engineer's details so that if they give approval for your modification they can also approve him to approve your modification.
BUT - the only engineer I can think of is in Broome, 400km away. But they say it's okay to drive my modified car there for him to look at.
So I can drive my modified, uninspected car along a major highway to be inspected and approved to drive back home along a major highway.
It's that last bit I really liked!
At any given point in time, somewhere in the world someone is working on a Land-Rover.
Master
So are you gonna do it?
Wizard
They are really on top of what's going on in life. Pumas are still listed as having 5 cylinders on the rego and license documents...
TopicToaster
They actually detail the trans type on your rego? Sounds like it would be easier to buy a new vehicle (if not cheaper too).
ChatterBox
Ah, it gets better now. I called the guy in Broome who signed off the baby seat anchor point in the back of the aforementioned Rangie, thinking he could do this as well, but he's not an engineer and couldn't think of anyone who is.
So, as far as I can tell, I could get the approval, as long as I don't mind waiting two months for them to tell me that it would be okay to replicate what the factory did, and then drive 2500km down to Perth for an engineer to tell me that my replication of what the factory did is okay, and then . . . I think I would drive it back up here for our local garage to inspect it, so that he could say that my replication of what the factory did is okay, and then I could wait for one of the fortnightly visits that The Department of Transport makes to town, and then bury them with paperwork and, when they've dug themselves out, they could process the change.
So far, this seems to be what the department would approve.
Though I'll have to wait until I've got some more spare time and call them again. I should go ahead with the change, just to see what actually happens.
But I really think this would be worth writing a few letters about, so we shall see . . .
At any given point in time, somewhere in the world someone is working on a Land-Rover.
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Master
Back in '93 I converted my Rover SD1 from the C65 slush box to wait for it....that beautiful LT77 that was a factory option. I never even considered the rego. All I noticed was it was then a beautiful car to drive with that sweet liitle 3.5V8 and economy went from about 22mpg to over 30mpg on a long run.
regards Gordo
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SubscriberAnd you sandgropers wonder why we on the east coast think you're a breed apart over there...
stupid gun laws, many of which defy logic
stupid vehicle mod laws, ditto.
and many others I'm sure.
Your enemy is the state government. Not just the one you have at the moment (though they are) but any type of state government at all.
Still if you want a change we'll send you Anna.
I don;t think we'll be needing her after Saturday.
It's not broken. It's "Carbon Neutral".
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1994 Defender 130 HCPU "Rolly"
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Have we needed her since September 07?Originally Posted by VladTepes
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
wash your mouth out with soap sunshine, there aint nothing wrong with our laws if your stupid enough to tell your right hand what your left hand is doing
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