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Al Grand Master

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Allan, your question is on the money.

VIV are responsible for checking the quality of work/parts used to repair a written off vehicle. Due to the extent of the damage it is understandable that the Victorian government would not like "patched-up" cars hitting the market. Thus every aspect of the vehicle's measurements have to be within factory tolarance and i believe only certain panel shops can approve/complete the work.

Asking for invoices of parts purchased should not be a big deal. Any w/shop can state they replaced blah, blah, blah........... but VIV wants proof of the replaced parts.

Pablo: You asking for "someone that knows people at VIV" raises a few questions of the legitamisy of the job :( .

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why dont u ask the people the questions, if your friendly to them and are genuinly curious, they will explain it to you in as detailed description as u want.

Then you will see what al is saying is true, anyone can say i replaced x part it cost this much on a invoice, but where is the tax receipt for the actual purchase of the car.

How many of us have heard about mechanics not changing things but actually still charging for them.

VIV just want to make sure this thing does not happen when the safety of the owner and every other person on the road may be at jeopardy because of some cost cutting.

Get the invoices, do everything by the book, and there is never anything to worry about

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OK VIV's suck balls!!!!

I had to get one done myself and it was a ball breaker.... you have to pay 300 bucks for jack shit...

But in the same sense it is also a good thing... they check to make sure u legal purchase all of your parts and that the repairs on the car are not dodgy...

If you have to get a VIV you have had a BIG hit and their were alot of repairs...

Just make sure you have original receipts and that you give them all the jig measurements and you should be fine...

And in all honesty if someone told me that there was a problem with my steering id be ripping it out and putting new shit in that was correct... last thing u want is to go through a corner and something snap.....

Good luck hope everything gets sorted out!!!!

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Allan, your question is on the money.

VIV are responsible for checking the quality of work/parts used to repair a written off vehicle. Due to the extent of the damage it is understandable that the Victorian government would not like "patched-up" cars hitting the market. Thus every aspect of the vehicle's measurements have to be within factory tolarance and i believe only certain panel shops can approve/complete the work.

Asking for invoices of parts purchased should not be a big deal. Any w/shop can state they replaced blah, blah, blah........... but VIV wants proof of the replaced parts.

Pablo: You asking for "someone that knows people at VIV" raises a few questions of the legitamisy of the job :( .

Same damn name and you still can't spell it! LOL! Don't worry most people can't spell it :ninja:

Al you have written what I was going to put anyway r.e list of work done, components used, total charges etc to ensure a safe and legal standard is adhered to. :laugh:

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Same damn name and you still can't spell it! LOL! Don't worry most people can't spell it :)

Al you have written what I was going to put anyway r.e list of work done, components used, total charges etc to ensure a safe and legal standard is adhered to. :miner:

Damn it!! Thought you were two L's ;) . Only now did i bother to look at your "Real name:" under the avatar

Don't understand the second part of that Alan :P

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Damn it!! Thought you were two L's :sick: . Only now did i bother to look at your "Real name:" under the avatar

Don't understand the second part of that Alan :)

LOL! second part, most people spell it the way you do with 2 ll's. Rarely I get Allen too :laugh:

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Meh I thought VIV would be hard too, but you just need to go to the right one and it's easy. Also make sure you have a couple of receipts for parts. They don't know how many parts needed to be replaced.

They sure do....they get whats called a WOVR Writen off vehicle report sent to them by the assessor.....however VIV's Are the biggest crock of shit known to man....I mean if there concerned about a job being repaired correctly why dont they issue panel beaters the ticket to be able to issue viv's????Ask them and they believe its a conflict of interest.......would you ask a panel beater to make sure that perspective vicroads employee's have had the mandatory labotomy before being employed????No you would ask a doctor to verify that

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Yeh I know I had the same greif, it's really stupid. I've seen the vehicle report. The VIV guy showed me. It's the most vague piece of crap. All it pretty much had written was damage to side and roof, with the crosses showing the location on a picture. I could have dinted the roof or snapped the B pillar and the VIV guy would have been none the wiser. Also when it says side damage how do they know if I just replaced the rear quarter or if I had the replace the whole rear suspension, door, etc... They don't. That's why it's so easy. Not worth the hassle though, when they knock you back for stupid crap. Congratulations on passing though.

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Yeh I know I had the same greif, it's really stupid. I've seen the vehicle report. The VIV guy showed me. It's the most vague piece of crap. All it pretty much had written was damage to side and roof, with the crosses showing the location on a picture. I could have dinted the roof or snapped the B pillar and the VIV guy would have been none the wiser. Also when it says side damage how do they know if I just replaced the rear quarter or if I had the replace the whole rear suspension, door, etc... They don't. That's why it's so easy. Not worth the hassle though, when they knock you back for stupid crap. Congratulations on passing though.

thank you :)

the one i went to had no idea what damage had been caused, i just gave him the reciepts for work done and he checked that it was done properly, they really had no idea what damage was caused in the accident

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