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| Thread ID: 59371 | 2005-06-30 07:17:00 | Just another kick in the guts for... | bartsdadhomer (80) | PC World Chat |
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| 368255 | 2005-06-30 07:17:00 | From next year WOF stations will be required to do a visual exhaust test on vehicles. If it smokes for 10secs no warrant. Just another kick in the guts for low income earners, no matter how well intentioned it is. It seems every time I turn around the boot is going in from somewhere. |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 368256 | 2005-06-30 08:13:00 | yes and no. we have had it easy all these years. car owners in aussie have far tougher rulles than what we have. as far as having a non-smoking car to pass WOf, its not a bad thing. it will save you from being fined by the cops as its illegal to have a car that displays smoke for more than 10 secs anyway. in most cases its cheaper to go buy another car than it is to repair one. edit: whats going to be more interesting is their anti tampering of emmisions controls. most NZ built vechiles don't have emmision controls and a lot of others have then removed has the emmision systems is what causes the smoking. add to that....a lot of jap imports have had the emmisions sytems knee capped back in japan. i wonder how closely they will follow aussie. over there its illegal the remove emmision systems so a lot people block them off but make it look like they still work. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 368257 | 2005-06-30 08:28:00 | No WOF in Queensland, all sorts of hunks of crap on the road and crash damaged cars. The truck I was driving for awhile smoked badly,had no mirrors,brakelights or indicators. Add in the fact it was a third too small for the bobcat I carted around and hitting the motorways was all fun and games....heh heh heh, Try crossing three lanes,completely blind to the suroundings and with no way of telling other traffic your intentions. She was a clencher. Besides that, the 700 to 1000 cost of registering a car kept most of the unworthy people off the road. as for smoking cars, isn't it the invisible emmisions that do the damage?, Besides, It will just be a case of dumping in a bottle of Selleys stop-smoke on the way to the testing station... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 368258 | 2005-06-30 09:09:00 | Selley's?? I thought those products were adhesives, they would stop the engine - and the smoke! Then whenever this is mentioned on TV, they always talk about having the engine 'tuned'. Tune away all they like, it won't cure worn valve guides, rings and bores :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 368259 | 2005-06-30 09:23:00 | Mind you if the price of oil continues to head north and the Kiwi dollar heads south this may become academic anyway you wont be able to afford the petrol to take the car for a warrent! | tutaenui (1724) | ||
| 368260 | 2005-06-30 09:25:00 | As far as I am aware, New South Wales is the only Australian state that stipulates regular vehicle testing (="WOF"). All other states only require a "WOF" when transferring the registration (i.e., selling a car). Even then, TAS, NT, WA, SA do not require a "WOF" at all, unless you a re-registering a car, or applying for a new registration. So you do see some rubbish on the roads, especially in the outback. But in the urban areas, the police stop a lot of cars and issue them with defect notices. | vinref (6194) | ||
| 368261 | 2005-06-30 09:38:00 | well i think being stuck behind a vechile thats putting up a smoke screen the US army would proud of is fairly damaging exspecially when you can't see the road and run into something. the old oil teatment works ok but to be honest i very rarly see stuffed petrol cars these days as its cheaper to dump it and go get yet another import. some coucils are having a big headache trying to get rid of alls these thorw out cars. deisels are often the biggest causes of smoke screens and a lot of that is simply due to lack of maintence. local mechanics have had ones where the oil has turned solid! another one the aircleaner was filled solid with dirt! people buy cheap deisels because they are cheap to run, which of course they are when you don't pay the millage or do any maintance. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 368262 | 2005-06-30 09:43:00 | Well my 1987 Toyota doesn't smoke. If it did I'd be throwing it away and getting another one. I did have a 1966 Rover that smoked when you first started it, however that was the choke. A drive around the block and it warmed up and it was fine. So when it went for warrants there never was any. Plus it was only when it had been sitting for months. My husband has a 1986 diesel. He does have its maintenance done. I followed him one day to see how it did, and the only time he got smoke was up a steep hill and it puffed as he started up and then it stopped. He said he floored it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 368263 | 2005-06-30 09:45:00 | Is it not a small price to pay for cleaner air for us and our kids to breathe???. Hopefully it will get rid of a few of these worn out import 4x4's that frantic mums insist on using for the school run. |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 368264 | 2005-06-30 09:48:00 | I used to treat my old cars with slick 50. They never smoked. The test came when after having a Triumph 2000 treated for 2 years and no smoke, i took the head off and did a valve grind, without thinking cleaned out the "gunk" in the cylinders, car smoked like a train afterwards. All that slick 50 had hidden heaps of wear. Not a bad rule, old bombs need to be fixed or removed, as a cyclist I find them annoying. |
netchicken (4843) | ||
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