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Originally Posted by Outwest34au
Call me knaive, but the way I see it is the RTA and engineers are only responsible for the vehicle up until it is presented and approved for registration, right up until the point where the number plates are bolted on since you cant leave the rego office without them affixed.
Once ANY vehicle leaves the carpark it is then in the hands of the police, mobile RTA enforcement officers (or equivalent in other states) to ensure or penalise ongoing compliance to rules or lack thereof.
If any states RTA was to approve a car with seatbelts bolted through glass they definitely need a good jab with a pineapple.
In reality any clown can register a KE20 corolla and then fit 4 straight side pipes, 12 inch wide mags and a plethora of other trash but how in gods name can anyone but that idiot be held responsible for those actions??
No amount of restrictions, rule changes or prohibitive laws will stop an idiot from flouting all the rules including the law of common sense.
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Exactly. We also have annual pink slip inspections to verify that a car is in roadworthy condition and that modifications requiring certification have paper work to go with them.
It is not new vehicles that are the problem, especially ICVs. I have seen some of the studies on road statistics put out by Monash university. There is no catagory for ICVs, they only consider class of vehicle and the major manufacturers.
The real dangerous cars are the Nissan across the road with 1" wheel spacers to make the wheels stick out past the guards (look at me im a drift racer), boost controller, bigger turbo, and modified fuel pressure regulator to force more pressure at the injectors and increase capacity oh and a set of Monza race seats from autobarn attached with some brackets made of a bit of tin that was once a pier cap under the house. Driving at max boost it is a death machine and anything below that it is as rich as bill gates and bellowing black smoke.
Its too hard and too much resources to completely control that so they do all they can and clamped down on the ICVs.