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I just got an EPA notice on my 32, apparently the cop reported me for having open air BOV! I don't have that and I never have had it. Any way to fight it? Or do I have to pay for my innocence. The only place I can get the cert is across town on a work day and costs 80 bucks. Hardly fair.

I just got an EPA notice on my 32, apparently the cop reported me for having open air BOV! I don't have that and I never have had it. Any way to fight it? Or do I have to pay for my innocence. The only place I can get the cert is across town on a work day and costs 80 bucks. Hardly fair.

Under freedom of information laws you can find out who the officer was, and take them to court over it.

Lot of stuffing around, but it can be done.

Unfortunately there is no "clear" way to dispute an EPA notice.

I just got an EPA notice on my 32, apparently the cop reported me for having open air BOV! I don't have that and I never have had it. Any way to fight it? Or do I have to pay for my innocence. The only place I can get the cert is across town on a work day and costs 80 bucks. Hardly fair.

Some of the issues are:

1. Can you prove that you didn't have an open air BOV? Perhaps if you have some reasonable evidence, then no problem.

2. If you went to court, would they believe you or the cop?

Unfortunately the law is an a$ and we pay for it. :turned:

You could sign a stat dec saying so.

Then once the case comes to court, ask the officer to prove he inspected the car - of which he did not, so he cannot say it was your car 100% or that he even knew the car had one. He is going of an assumption, which means diddle when dealing in court. Again this will come down to having a good lawyer talking the talk of course.

I'm yet to challenge an EPA myself, however I've challenged numerous defects over the years and have won in every instance.

I say fight it, but be warned it won't be a 1-week thing, it'll drag on for months.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Hey guys,

Just wanted to put this in here as a warning, as a lot of you probably already know.

2 months ago i was on stud road and got pulled past a .05 truck to go into Knox underground car park, where there was upwards of 10cops and 3 EPA vans (operation Killerwat )

anyway, i knew i would fail the test as the exhaust on the car i bought with was duel 3 inch fair loud, it did 97db.

2 weeks later had the old EPA letter and a nice $611 fine. my main gripe was I asked the EPA officer will I get a fine they said no just a notice to fix the db.

so yeah they cared more about the car they didn't even breathalyse me

from what i've found on Holden forums also is whenever EPA tested and failed straight 611 fine and fines for defects and whatever else they find.

keep in mind they also took pictures under my car and drew full diagrams of my exhaust for if they caught again with the same exhaust back on

Hey guys,

Just wanted to put this in here as a warning, as a lot of you probably already know.

2 months ago i was on stud road and got pulled past a .05 truck to go into Knox underground car park, where there was upwards of 10cops and 3 EPA vans (operation Killerwat )

anyway, i knew i would fail the test as the exhaust on the car i bought with was duel 3 inch fair loud, it did 97db.

2 weeks later had the old EPA letter and a nice $611 fine. my main gripe was I asked the EPA officer will I get a fine they said no just a notice to fix the db.

so yeah they cared more about the car they didn't even breathalyse me

from what i've found on Holden forums also is whenever EPA tested and failed straight 611 fine and fines for defects and whatever else they find.

keep in mind they also took pictures under my car and drew full diagrams of my exhaust for if they caught again with the same exhaust back on

That's bullsh!t

If you get pinned by a EPA Mobile test station, then you also get the fine.

If you get a letter of 'suspicion' in the mail, then there is no fine as there is no actual proof.

Been going on for years how. This 'operation' is just a formal name for what the police & EPA have been doing for 2 years now.

End of the day people don't give a fk, and what they are trying to 'achieve' will never be realised. It's just revenue raising essentially.

That's bullsh!t

Yes, and by the way, welcome XR8TD to Skylines Australia..... :rolleyes:

I think what GTRRKT meant to say was "Thanks for sharing with us your experience and letting us know what's going on out there". :worship:

ahahah yeah cheers,

it seems stupid to me how a car can pass a full roadworthy and can still be fined, I thought there would be some kind of test must be undertaken if a car is louder than stock to pass a roadworthy.

as on my roadworthy sheet states exhaust/emissions control ticked so I dunno

how are we gents, i have a r33 gtr and i need to transfer it into my girlfriends mums name because im a p plater, im going to need a rwc, my only mods are hks coilovers and twin poddys and id like to avoid the drama of changing the coilovers to stock struts the poddys im not to stressed about. my question is will there be anyone who can/will pass a gtr with atleast coilovers if anyone can please give me the name of a shop or a number of and rwc testers who might pass coilovers it would help me out alot. im not really fussed about who does it i just need it passed with little drama. thanks in advance for the help p.s. why are coilover illigal?

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