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Hey guys,

long story short, got defected at the RTA defect station while i was in newy on sat night...

1) Tyre... rear driver's side tyre is shit house (has a slow leak, all other tyres are plenty fine) that's fine and valid so i'm gettin a new set of wheels and tyres.

Says i gotta get a blue slip though even though i have (and showed them) an engineers certificate for the car.

The problem on the night was they had no idea what they where doing and couldn't identify the year of the vehicle 'cause it's a 15yr rule import (no green plate). so they said "we don't have time to read through the whole engineers certificate so just go and get a blue slip done."

I rang on monday and spoke to the manager (was a bit pissed that i had a certificate and they didn't know what to do with it) and he chased around for me then rang back later and told me the certificate is not on file so i gotta get a blue slip and get it all on file.

No idea why it's not on file, gave it all to the RTA when i got the car but that's kool...

Ok so, where i'm at now:

Gotta get a blue slip (either tomorrow or saturday mornin ideally). Which according to the bloke i just phoned up means i gotta box in the pod filters?

is that right, do i have to spend more money on doing that? if so, how much and where is the cheapest simplest solution or does anyone have a template to make my own?

If not, who would you advise for a blue slip? Somewhere close(ish) to Hornsby if ya can please :P

All help appreciated greatly.

Cheers guys and gals.

Dave.

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I just got a blue slip for my BMW about 10 minutes ago.

I asked him about the air filter vs. boxed air filter thing and he rang up the RTA for me... He came back and said that NO/NADA/NOTHING is allowed to be changed in respect to the standard air box. No pod filter, no foam filters, no panel filters, no dirty socks... Boxed or unboxed.

But I got my GTR pink slipped just fine with exposed APEXi pod filters by another mechanic so who knows.

It obviously depends on which mechanic you take your car to, and which RTA genius answers your phone call :rofl:

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yeah, i went to the RTA yesty to do my rego... they won't let me rego the car because the defect is outsanding so i gotta sort that crap out on sat mornin... i asked the chick at the RTA if they are shown as on file etc and she said NO!.... just me getting screwed outta more money by the government i guess...

fair enough that the tyre is no good... that's rectified now :D but enough of all the other bullsh*%t just cause they didn't know what they where doing in the first place :)

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yeah they are stupid. I had the same prob with airfilter just the other week. I talked to engineers, blue slip guys and the rta. (rta guys were knobs!!)

Anyway you have to have your pod filter boxed in a good solid box, then get it engineered. The engineer i talked to said he can't really engineer it without a box. Dunno how u got engineers cert without it enclosed.

Might be easier (as i did) to borrow/purchase original airbox assy to get through blue slip. Then just put yours straight back in (could be a pain if you get defected again any time soon)

Anyway just thought i'd let ya know what i've been told. Good luck man

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ok, an update for anyone interested...

as i said above, the rta at the defect station in newcastle had no idea what they where doin... i had the engineers certificate, import approval sheets, my licence, they had the rego to cross check for details...

here's the bit where that all becomes somewhat relevent

Had the blue slip done sat... NO WUCKERS AT ALL :) - still gonna get a custome heat shield made up though, just havn't gotten round to it yet :D

The guy who did the blue slip (M & C ZEC Automotive - EXCELLENT service there!!!); rang the guys in newcastle to see why he was doin it and they said they wanted to make sure the car wasn't stolen!!! LOL!!! dumb arses...

they could've just looked at the paperwork then looked at the fact that it's registered in my name to see that!!! LOL!!!!

so all is good... just gotta pay the defect for myself being stupid enough to drive around with 1 really bad tyre.

Thanks for all the help everyone ! :)

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