Yellow Stickers

[wytefx]

Hi all,

I was pulled over on a local road last week while doing 40km/h. The cop pulled me over specifically to inspect my window tinting. It measured 15% so i was understandably yellow stickered and given a week to correct the defect. I went to Tint a Car and opted to go for the "midnight express' tinting which was the "darkest legal" apparently.

I went over the pits yesterday and the inspector was a total jerk, he asked me if i had paid for the inspection.

While I was rummaging for my receipt he insisted that i had not paid, with no justification whats so ever. After showing him the receipt he grudgingly accepted it and started too inspect the car. It annoyed me how the guy seemed to be hell bent on proving that I was some sort of "street punk' and how he immediately assumed the worst about me.

I am proud to say that despite his best efforts he could not find any faults. When he got in for a test drive he even checked the interior rear plastic panels to see if they were loose! Then he was a massive prick and told me i had to remove my gauges since the top one was within the head imact zone.

Oh and by the way, apparently normal car tinting is illegal for anyone interested in getting it, since his test machine read 27.6% and the lowest acceptable is 30%. So now i have to get my gauges removed and my tinting removed again! This time I will get it inspected prior to tinting the car.

I have been reading the ADRs

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/wa/cons...eg/rtsr2002308/

and I cant find any regulation concerning the head impact zone.

I was wondering if anyone has had a similar problem with their gauges and what they did to solve it.

[R33TOM]

well i know in nsw the gauges cant be mounted higher than the highest point of the instrument cluster, so it looks like hes willing to let you keep the bottom 2 and take the top one off,

what do you need all those gauges for anyway? from your photo, i find it hard to even be able to read what the top gauge is showing

[ctjet]

only thing you can do about guages is to remove them until you pass the inpection, and then just put them back in or mount them in your dash somewhere

and tint a car should be paying all your remove and refit costs btw

[R33TOM]

yeah definately if tint a car is saying its legal and they sold it to you knowing you need to get the car checked than they should re-tint it with some "legal" tints

[wytefx]

Yeah tint a car is being pretty cool about it, they are covering the costs of re-tinting. I am probably just gonna take the gauges off for the inspection, but I havent decided if i want to remount them after

[Kennedy]

Mount your gauges in the din slot (if they are 52mm). RTA had no issues with mine there

[koleka]

mate dont worry, its nothing to do with street punks.

My dads a cop and had to get a Vehicle Inspection Verificaition (VIV) the guy who he had to goto was a prick, and an absolute wank.

VicRoads pick these pricks on purpose, because there all tight arses.

[wytefx]

Maybe I caught them on a bad day, athough I remember when i went in to pay for the inspection (you have to pre-pay), the guy at the counter asked if this was my first inspection. I asked him if people usually have to bring their car in for more than one inspection, he just laughed and dodged the question.

Then during the inspection I asked the inspector what he should suggest I should do since I like the gauges on my pillar and he even said 'just take it off for the inspection, you can do what you like after", so all that shit about being concerned for our safety is a load of BS, its just a revenue generating scam. The guy was encouraging me to remount the gauges in the hope that I will get stickered again.

[ctjet]

^^^ ha thats fantastic!!

if some guy at Vicroads ever said that to me i would hav reported the prick immedietly to his boss. let these people know that they're full of crap