Thread: Wiper self park - road worthy necessity ?

Hi John,

I have heard the same - unfortunately I am not sure when that particular ADR came into play. Sorry - no real help.

If it never had self park from new then it does not need it for a roadworthy.

Thanks !! The problem is, I have no idea if it had it from new. The current single speed motor has it, but it's not working. I can't be 100% sure it's the original wiper motor.

Cheers,
John

Which means pre-1967.

Problem is that you need to find a tester that understands that they need to test to the ADR's at the time the vehicle was produced not the current ADR's (unless something was fully retrospective like child restraints).

I had an 'interesting' discussion with a tester recently regarding brakes. His attitude was if he didn't feel safe with the brakes he wouldn't pass the vehicle despite them being as good as when the vehicle was new. I mentioned taking that up with VicRoads and he said he'd just not charge me but refuse to do the roadworthy.


Colin

Originally Posted by gromit

Problem is that you need to find a tester that understands that they need to test to the ADR's at the time the vehicle was produced not the current ADR's (unless something was fully retrospective like child restraints).

I had an 'interesting' discussion with a tester recently regarding brakes. His attitude was if he didn't feel safe with the brakes he wouldn't pass the vehicle despite them being as good as when the vehicle was new. I mentioned taking that up with VicRoads and he said he'd just not charge me but refuse to do the roadworthy.


Colin

Anyone under 50 would most likely never have driven any distance in cars of the 50's and earlier. Drum brakes were still standard fitment of many makes up to the early 70's. Most would be appalled by the brakes or lack thereof by the standards of modern power boosted braking systems. But this is what we drove and most people drove to the capacity of the systems. We were taught to keep the foot off the brake pedal when descending steep hills and ranges to avoid brake fade and to use throttle and gearbox to control speed before resorting to the brakes. I wonder what your inspector would think of cars from the 20's with two wheel contracting brakes or those English abominations with hydraulic front and mechanical rear brakes which no-one ever seemed to be able to adjust so both systems worked in sync. I well remember the heavy trucks of the time that had frighteningly poor brakes.

Not going to help you in Qld, and regards a D1 not series, but up here my inspector said self park not really an issue as long as you have some wiper action, You can just about get the correct park position with judicious use of the stalk switch. And if it were down to one speed, he would prefer it to be the fastest. Nice fellow, and I've cultivated him over a long period of time . But putting inspection leniency aside you try to get it fixed in the long run to keep faith. Not sure up here much longer we can resist the urge to push commonsense aside for the nanny state.