Passing suspension defect with blocks/spacers in suspension?

[shane_3800]

How do they prevent the likelihood of someone screwing the spring platforms down and reducing the bump stop clearance? That's why SA requires them to be spot welded along with engineering compliance at a particular eyebrow height. I don't think the Supashock coil overs fitted to the HSV GTSR W1 are height adjustable for that reason.

In ACT police can't make judgement on a car, so the yellow sticker they put on is a referral, to a inspection station.
So if your car is too low they'll just "refer" you.
But they don't really care here to be honest.
I see a guy that works up the road driving daily with the arches nearly touching the wheels.
It's ACT no one gives a **** here.

 

[losh1971]

Probably because there is plenty of the Public Purse in the ACT and police don't need to do monthly budget top-ups by dishing out fines.

In SA you do not want to get defected, it's probably the worst state to get one if you do, especially if its a Regency defect. Get one of those and your car needs to be pretty much good as it was when it left the factory floor or they won't pass it.

 

[Forg]

In NSW they wouldn’t care if a car looked too low, unless the male driver looked too not-old, then the police would need to teach that driver a lesson.
Canaries are a total PITA, if you commit the crime of not being old the police can waste a heap of your time & probably money in forcing your car off the road until you go out of your way to get thee to an inspection-station to prove the car was never unroadworthy & there’re zero repercussions for the police officers for wasting all your time & money.

If the OP is real & it really happened to him in Victoria, he’s lucky he wasn’t shot for the crime of Young Driving …

 

[RevNev]

Probably because there is plenty of the Public Purse in the ACT and police don't need to do monthly budget top-ups by dishing out fines.

In SA you do not want to get defected, it's probably the worst state to get one if you do, especially if its a Regency defect. Get one of those and your car needs to be pretty much good as it was when it left the factory floor or they won't pass it.

Generally speaking, a car has to be pretty radically modified and the driver caught doing something stupid for the cops to issue a Regency defect but if they do, you get the car as close to stock as possible before taking it in for inspection. On a VF, removing camshafts, air intakes, long tube headers, dark tint, raising suspension to stock height etc. They're the most pedantic and painful imaginable at Regency, you don't want to go there!

 

[vc commodore]

In ACT police can't make judgement on a car, so the yellow sticker they put on is a referral, to a inspection station.
So if your car is too low they'll just "refer" you.
But they don't really care here to be honest.
I see a guy that works up the road driving daily with the arches nearly touching the wheels.
It's ACT no one gives a **** here.

Hummm, that's every state...The sticker is a referral to the inspection station to determine whether the issue makes the car roadworthy or unroadworthy...

 

[losh1971]

I got defected for a blown headlight over here probably close to 30 years ago in my Transit van. It was easier to just sell it to the wrecker than taking a chance on them finding 27 other problems for me to deal with.

 

[vc commodore]

Generally speaking, a car has to be pretty radically modified and the driver caught doing something stupid for the cops to issue a Regency defect but if they do, you get the car as close to stock as possible before taking it in for inspection. On a VF, removing camshafts, air intakes, long tube headers, dark tint, raising suspension to stock height etc. They're the most pedantic and painful imaginable at Regency, you don't want to go there!

I have rellies in the Riverland and every so often, coppers head up there and have a bit of a blitz defecting cars for absolute random B/S....

The last blitz I heard about, the Adelaide coppers got a roasting from their superiors because of their antics.....ie for low fluid levels, bad wiper blades and even a few too low cars because they had a heap of tools in the boot, from farm work

The defect removal up there is alot easier than Adelaide too

 

[ephect]

Hummm, that's every state...The sticker is a referral to the inspection station to determine whether the issue makes the car roadworthy or unroadworthy...

Not true here, minor defects are removed at vicroads if the defect item has been fixed.

Majors need proper inseption by authorised mechanic

 

[RevNev]

I have rellies in the Riverland and every so often, coppers head up there and have a bit of a blitz defecting cars for absolute random B/S....

The last blitz I heard about, the Adelaide coppers got a roasting from their superiors because of their antics.....ie for low fluid levels, bad wiper blades and even a few too low cars because they had a heap of tools in the boot, from farm work

The defect removal up there is alot easier than Adelaide too

Yes, I know a few with radically modified cars registered at rural addresses where Regency can be avoided for defect removal. SA can't suspend rego on interstate registered vehicles either. A defect notice on an interstate registered car doesn't show up on the cops SA data system roadside if you scrape the defect notice off.

 

[Forg]

Not true here, minor defects are removed at vicroads if the defect item has been fixed.

Who at VicRoads makes that determination … how does that work? Does it have to be a simple enough mod that Mabel behind the counter can tell it’s no longer there, or does VicRoads still have some offices/locations with inspectors, or … ?