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| Thread ID: 99926 | 2009-05-20 00:45:00 | Wofs, testing stations and tickets | globe (11482) | PC World Chat |
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| 775263 | 2009-05-20 03:56:00 | Firstly, why would you take it to VTNZ? And chances are your brake light has a faulty/loose connection where it'll sometimes work and sometimes won't. I somehow doubt they just failed it when it clearly worked. |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 775264 | 2009-05-20 04:26:00 | I always use a Local agarage, if its something minor, like the brake light they would normally fix it, ( but that time they never had one in stock) then let you know it had to be fixed to pass the warrant. - As I say to them - if its under $200 just do it. If its something more expensive then they will call and say this/That needs fixing will cost X amount. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 775265 | 2009-05-20 04:43:00 | And chances are your brake light has a faulty/loose connection where it'll sometimes work and sometimes won't. I somehow doubt they just failed it when it clearly worked. Nope. Always works always has. As i said it is a bit dim but thats all. Have followed this car alot over the years. It was a bad inspection, End of story. |
globe (11482) | ||
| 775266 | 2009-05-20 05:18:00 | I could understand that from a local garage but VTNZ? Hard to believe sorry. If it's a bit dim then maybe it's too dim. If that certain inspector thought it was too dim then what's to say a certain cop following you won't think the same? Can't fight everyone. | --Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 775267 | 2009-05-20 05:47:00 | I could understand that from a local garage but VTNZ? Hard to believe sorry. If it's a bit dim then maybe it's too dim. If that certain inspector thought it was too dim then what's to say a certain cop following you won't think the same? Can't fight everyone. you dont make sense my friend. first you question why VTNZ then you say they dont make mistakes ?? But more to the point if it is too dim why did another inspector at the same place pass it when it was the only item he had to check. Surely you'd have more of a chance of getting through on the main inspection when they are looking at lots rather than a single specific item...?? MAybe not.... |
globe (11482) | ||
| 775268 | 2009-05-20 05:53:00 | You have my sympathy.:angry Although my experience is different - it taught me a lot. I was failed on a minor point and when I had it repaired the mechanic advised me NOT to go to a testing station. "Take your car to a garage," he said. I was surprised to hear that mechanics at a testing station are almost non-existent and because they work from a manual - and know very little except what is written in the manual - they have little perception as to what is safe and what is not. I have taken my car to a garage ever since and have had no worries at all. I am certain that if my car fails a warrant now, it is because someone in the know - a qualified mechanic - says so. Perhaps if you had had a mechanic check the car, the results may have been different. My advice is to stay away from testing stations and take it to a garage where the people who check your car do not need a manual to do so.:) |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 775269 | 2009-05-20 05:57:00 | My advice is to stay away from testing stations and take it to a garage where the people who check your car do not need a manual to do so.:) x2 I went to VTNZ once, never going back. AA aren't so bad, but you can't beat your local mechanic, as long as he knows what he's doing. We're spoiled for choice in Mot, theres a lot of good mechanics here. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 775270 | 2009-05-20 06:25:00 | you dont make sense my friend. first you question why VTNZ then you say they dont make mistakes ?? But more to the point if it is too dim why did another inspector at the same place pass it when it was the only item he had to check. Surely you'd have more of a chance of getting through on the main inspection when they are looking at lots rather than a single specific item...?? MAybe not.... I would never go to VTNZ because they are expensive. In my experience they will almost always pass you 2nd time round unless you blatantly didn't do anything at all about what failed. 1st time round they like to fail you so they can repair it for you. After that they don't care if your car is safe or not. For example, it's easy if you fail on a tyre just to simply switch it with another one on your vehicle. When you take it back they only check the one that failed 1st time round. Same with other parts, they usually just check it's been replaced more than anything, they don't check it works etc. I got away once with simply giving a part under my car a polish, think it might've been a ball joint, can't remember, but it made it look new and the guy stuck his head under the car, looked at it for about a second and gave me a wof. |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 775271 | 2009-05-20 06:35:00 | I am thinking of taking them to small claims to get this money from them. What do you think stand a chance ?? Don't know where you are but send the council, or whoever it is, a letter with all the details explaining the circumstances. A family member recently got let off a fine - details here (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz). |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 775272 | 2009-05-20 06:35:00 | You not displaying a current WOF and driving without a current WOF has nothing to do with the tester trying his best on subjective items on the test. You could take them to the small claims court but will lose big time. Subjective means not black and white if they say hi stop lamp was dim it probably was you might have gone over a bump the next day and the contacts or earth might have moved and fixed it temporally. Subjective means they might say something has play. Unsubjective tests are like no seat belts fitted. COF and WOF testers have their bad hair days do what we do next COF/WOF go somewhere else and keep going somewhere else until you find someone who is a fair and never has a bad hair day. You can appeal to the LTSA who issue the licences to the inspectors and I have done that on a bus brake test and won. OK. You do realise that the person who inspects the vehicle and passes it has the responsibility for the vehicle being roadworthy at the time of inspection? It is not only an offence to fail to display a COF/WOF it is also an offence to drive a vehicle which is not up to standard even if the vehicle has a current sticker. I know a person in Tokoroa who lost the right to issue COFs because he issued these in spite of other inspectors failing the vehicles. Each inspection report gets back to the LTSA or rather the NZTA of which LTSA is a part www.nzta.govt.nz In my opinion it is probably not an option to take a vehicle to several different inspectors in the hope that you eventually get a COF. Some Inspectors will fail things just because they want the repair work which may result from the failure. |
Sweep (90) | ||
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