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hey guys

to cut a long story short, qld transport have fully gone over my car (R32) a month after buying it and have hit me up for these things so need some help

two mag wheels are damaged and welded and need replacing as i found out they are unrepairable. THey are a 17" 3 piece panasport mag so im guessing no one will have any for sale and i will pay a fortune to get them singley...so i need some sort of wheels that will fit an r32 gtst stock or not for as cheap as possible.

exhaust sitting too low and not 100mm off of ground.

not allowed to have any gauges on drivers A-pillar

aftermarket foot pedals do not have an antislip surface

not allowed to have switch for dual stage boost controller anywhere in cabin. illegal to be able to adjust boost from in cabin.

and they want me to get something from nissan to say that my exhaust meets specs coz they reckon because it is 3" all the way through with only one muffler that its not or something.

now guys i have only 13 days left to get everything fixed before i have to have it inspected.

i need all help possible

for things like the boost controller i think i can get away just removing the switch, the gauge i will just have to remove, the pedals does anyone have a stock set or anything?? the exhaust i am unsure about and i need some wheels.

sorry for the long post but as u may see i am pretty frustrated at the moment as i have not had the car long and found all this stuff wrong with it and it all passed road worthy so i dont know what to do and if i will ever get reimbursed.

Jason

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15" ford steelies fit on, same stud pattern, i jsut put some on mine :P 16" wouldnt fit.

pump up tyres more, or get bigger rims and pump tyres up so car is above 110mm ;P

pillar gauges, arent allowed. :P

um i would want anti-slip on pedals anyway... imagine if some oil got onto your brake foot...

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cracked rims are a bad idea anyhow.. while it might annoy you that you have to get them fixed/changed - if you were going 200km/hr and one decided to fall into little pieces it might be a bit important then.

Not everything is dumb they do defect people for.

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im not complaining they were defected for that...we bought that to there attention because it had only had rwc done not that much earlier and a tyre rolled off the rim on me...now lucky for me i was only going like 5-10km/h and then unfortunately went over my car and gave me my defect list and was told i had 14 days for repairs

i know it was unsafe to drive on, it is that it passed road worthy that has ticked me off. and now i am having to pay to get it all fixed in time and they said they cant make anyone pay if i want any compensation i have to seek legal advise and find out who to take to court either the old owner or the rw guy as it is very complicated as i wont go into it all.

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true.. sounds painful!

anyhow, good luck with it all..

with the pedals - much of time they bolt over the old ones, even if they look like they are one piece? may just want to have a close look. I always thought mine were full pedals, but when i checked more closely they were clip ons.

About all i have is an R33 airbox.. probably not much use for r32

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hey jaystar I have some tyres 4 sale if u want em 215/55/16 = to 225/50/16" 2 of for $180 send me a PM if ya want them (they are brand new thats why I want so much they have never been fitted to a set of wheels) & we can sort some thing out :)

oh & I am sure the size is right as sloo got the other 2 tyres 4 his 32

:)

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hey jaystar

just wondering whether the dot did the defects or was it a police officer??

because we were talking to a dot inspector one arvo (mates next door neighbour) and he was saying that a pillar guages are legal as long as the gauge is not the first point of impact incase of an accident, so as long as your guage is mounted on the other side of the steering wheel away from where you sit it should be legal. id just be questioning that one

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The DoT and the Police operate on two totally sperate sets of legislation, so what a policeman booked you for might not be a defect in the DoT eye's. For example underbody lighting, the legislation the Police operate under clearly states that this form of lighting is illeagal, yet the DoT engineering legistlation startes it is legal, although cant be Red, Blue, Yellow or White and cant flash.

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So many conflicting laws :)

i dont think its conflicting laws but more the way each individual police officer interpretes the law, that and when they hand out a defect notice 9 out of 10 ppl will just pay it to save the hassle's, either that or they just dont know.

my gf was tell me one of her friends got booked for brushing her hair at a set of traffic lights, apparently you need to have at least one hand on the wheel at all times. that seems a bit over the top to me.

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my gf was tell me one of her friends got booked for brushing her hair at a set of traffic lights, apparently you need to have at least one hand on the wheel at all times.  that seems a bit over the top to me.

I think having one hand on the wheel at all times is a perfectly reasonable and sensible law. What would happen if you were sitting at the lights with no hands on the wheel and someone ran up your arse.....you have absolutely no control over the car or what direction it's heading....

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does your boost controller have the vauccum lines coming into the cabin where the switch is? or does it just have electrical lines to a solenoid mouinted in the engine bay?

is it ILLEGAL to have a switchable boost controller with vaccum lines running into the cabin

it is LEGAL to have a switchable boost controller with electrical lines running into the cabin.

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Jaystar, I have a set of standard R33 GTS25t 16x7 (I think) wheels with 70+% tread 225/50VR16 Nexens on them.

They are only "compliance tyres" (retail about $129) and the wheels are used but in good condition.

If you are interested you can PM me and make an offer.

Don't want to give them away but would like to help out a fellow Skyliner.

P.S. I am in Brisbane, at Wellington Point.

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ok, i got defected also, i had the 15" rims on and was done for 70mm from ground to exhaust. it was ****ed too, because he pulled me up as I was entering the myer city car park, and blocked the enterance off :(

he said there as no point, but everyone is telling me that the $75 does have a point, no matter what. This means I will loose my license >=[. I put the rims on because the rear tyres I had not rotated and they were illegal. These were to do until I got new tyres for them.

Should I go with the suspension? Or should I fight it?

come on, height over tyres, I should win...

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