need a road worthy certificate.

[offtap]

hey,

anyone know where i could get a road worthy certificate for my car. i have put the door handle back on, and door trim, and got some tyres with tread.

but dont think i will still be able to get one without an engineers certificate.

anyone know of a place in sth east suburbs of melb.

or any thoughts on what i should do.
not going to have timeto get it engineered, only have untill tuesday.

[mirage]

take it door to door to mechanics through springvale and have about $200 in hand.

Im thinking about something similar, I went for a legit RWC for my latest Z and got a quote of $1700 to get it up to scratch.

[karl_2ltGC]

What do you need a rw certificate for?

[offtap]

i got a defect, from not having a door handle on, door trim. and 1 of the strut tower bolts were off, cause the thread was stuffed.

i have fixed everything on the sheet that has been asked, but no one will give me a road worthy cause its not engineered.

they have given me till tuesday.....

after that car becomes un regoed

[karl_2ltGC]

Was it a major or minor defect?
If its minor then you just need to repair the probs, cruise through your local vic roads and your fine.

[offtap]

its a minor road worthy. But the cop ticked that i require a rwc.....


which basically is what is stuffing me up.

big time

[oldenholden64]

theres a guy in bayswater who does RWC and he isnt the most stringent of people..

[Warpspeed]

A little tip my friend about roadworthies............

When you take it for the first check, give them several obvious things to put on the fault list. It will make them happy.

If you take in a very roadworthy car, they will keep looking until they find something. They might want to argue that those little scratches require a whole new windscreen or something silly like that.

Then go home, and put the fuse back in the wipers, and the wire back on the horn, and so on.

[oldenholden64]

so true


i took in a car that there was not a thing wrong with and the fwits thought they would look over the whole car with a friggen fine tooth comb... but all the parts they listed i just repainted adn took back.. and they passed it.. dumb ass's

[CandyAppleVL]

does anyone know where is a good place to get a rwc in the western suburbs of melbourne?

gotta get 2 in the next month or so

one for my vl (to clear a canary)
and one to get my meteor registered

[mirage]

Originally posted by Warpspeed
A little tip my friend about roadworthies............

When you take it for the first check, give them several obvious things to put on the fault list. It will make them happy.

If you take in a very roadworthy car, they will keep looking until they find something. They might want to argue that those little scratches require a whole new windscreen or something silly like that.

Then go home, and put the fuse back in the wipers, and the wire back on the horn, and so on.

Question is, how tatty do you want the car to be before they write it off as a peice of shit and try and fail it hard.

I bought another car hopefuly for a daily driver and am wondering how much I should play with it before i go for RWC or should I take it as is and see what they say.

Interior is quite dirty and stinks like smoke, should probably clean that.

Bumper mounts are bent so the top of the bumper fouls the bonnet when opening, should probably fix that

Few cosmetic rust spots I could grind off and spray pack.

Some bushes are questionable but I could leave them to fail as they are a cheap easy fix.

Windscreens always fail in my experience.

Oil on the engine block, would you clean this up or not? Im curious to a mechanics opinion to where its coming from though coz i cant track it.

[Bob Saget]

Since when do you need door trims for a roadie ?

[Warpspeed]

My comments were directed to people that are taking a nice clean presentable (but old) car in for a roadworthy. Give the buggers something really obvious to find on the first inspection.

They can fail you on rust in structural parts of the car. And it may not be fixable, depending on how bad it is. I would try to hide rust before a first inspection if possible.

They can also fail you on oil leaks. Dripping oil creates a road hazard (that is the reason). But a dirty engine block is not an oil leak. I would leave it dirty unless it is obviously raining oil.

They cannot fail you on body dings, or missing trim, but they can if there are any sharp edges sticking out (pedestrians).

That is my understanding of it anyhow.