New WOF rules

[newsuba]

About time !

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8228975/New-WOF-rules-announced

 

The key changes are:

- An initial inspection for new cars, followed by annual inspections once vehicles are three years old

- Annual inspections for vehicles three years and older and first registered on or after 1 January 2000

- Six-monthly inspections for vehicles first registered before 1 January 2000

[Joker]

I kinda dont see the issue here

cool

[familyman]

So for the majority of vehicles on NZ roads, it\'s business as usual.

I just hope that most drivers who will require an annual one, still get a "look over" inspection done when they take it in for the 6 month service.

[Johnnynz]

So that would be the year it was registered in NZ?

So my Altezza 01 Model still needs 6 monthly as it wasnt registered in NZ until 2010?

- Edit -

Wait I just realized how stupid that question is... Back to bed with me I think

[Joker]

everyone has spotted that "loop-hole"

bet a buck that\'s just the journalists "view"

first year of registration (in country of origin) may be the fine print

[Johnnynz]

Loop hole for sure but I realized either way mines registered after 01 lol.

[Joker]

how i see it

"Birth" = Inspection

3 years 1st WOF

4 years old and so on a wof a year (suspect these may get more rigourous)

anything 13 or so years old is 6 monthly wofs

suspect the 1st Jan 2000 thing will be a "rolling date"

[boon]

It\'s still stupid. My Subie does less than 5000k a year and flys through every WoF. Yet I walk past a 2010 Audi Q7 near work all the time that has bald tires with huge gouges in the sidewalls yet it still has a couple of months left on its WoF. It should be KM based.

[Joker]

AMEN

[Marky]

And still no mention of emissions testing?

Thank f**k for that haha

[Joker]

 JoKer said:

may be the fine print

[MercuryFree]

Thank god. I\'ve spent $200+ on passing wofs the last two years.

Such a waste of money that has been

[DRFVDR]

I also can pretty much guarantee that the 1st jan 2000 is a rolling date ( or else what happens when these are 20 yo POS\'s ).

More policing on cars with NO or DOdgy warrant\'s will be awesome lets get those dodgy C**ts of the road, Also expect more road side stops checking of cars making sure they are still at warrant conditions.

Other than my private cars wont effect me to much as anything on a COF still 6 monthly

[familyman]

So does this mean that all officers now have to do an automotive mechanics course? And carry a jack in the boot?

[DRFVDR]

well no BUT you may see that specialist officers are trained/employed to do just that, something like lesser CVIU officers.

In alot of overseas countries ( USA, OZ) there is no real WOF system it is undertaken by the police, saying that when i was in the states there wwas some pretty dodgy cars running around ( one of which i owned).

I doubt that the WOF laws will make much difference to most people, You are supposed to have your vehicle at WOF/COF status at ALL times not just when it goes for a check, the inspection is only to make sure you are keeping it at the correct state NOT to see if it fails.

Unless there is more/harder policing of the rules there will still be cars running around without a current WOF

[Joker]

 familyman said:

So does this mean that all officers now have to do an automotive mechanics course? And carry a jack in the boot?

lol you have heard of these cute wee pink or green stickers they do carry aye?

[Marky]

 JoKer']

[quote name='familyman said:

So does this mean that all officers now have to do an automotive mechanics course? And carry a jack in the boot?

/quote]

lol you have heard of these cute wee pink or green stickers they do carry aye?

Haha

[soopersubaru]

 boon said:

It\'s still stupid. My Subie does less than 5000k a year and flys through every WoF. Yet I walk past a 2010 Audi Q7 near work all the time that has bald tires with huge gouges in the sidewalls yet it still has a couple of months left on its WoF. It should be KM based.

This new ruling further supports the rich by allowing them to drive around without spending $50 every 6months on their new cars.

And as above...............The true age of a vehicle is the Km travelled.

Heres an example:- A retire e and a Taxi driver both purchase a new Falcon today................In three years one will have maybe 30,000K on the clock, the taxi will have around 300,000K Yet neither are required to have been checked in the previous 3 years!............Madness!

[MercuryFree]

 soopersubaru']

[quote name='boon said:

It\'s still stupid. My Subie does less than 5000k a year and flys through every WoF. Yet I walk past a 2010 Audi Q7 near work all the time that has bald tires with huge gouges in the sidewalls yet it still has a couple of months left on its WoF. It should be KM based.

/quote]

This new ruling further supports the rich by allowing them to drive around without spending $50 every 6months on their new cars.

And as above...............The true age of a vehicle is the Km travelled.

Heres an example:- A retire e and a Taxi driver both purchase a new Falcon today................In three years one will have maybe 30,000K on the clock, the taxi will have around 300,000K Yet neither are required to have been checked in the previous 3 years!............Madness!

The Taxi will have had many checks as it will have a CoF which is still required every 6 months as it is a commercial vehicle

[Marky]

And I guess if they do it on a KM basis, some people will be massively disadvantaged compared to others as well. My car does maybe 150-200km per week, some people will do that in a day or two easy. I was doing 3-400km a day when I was couriering - no COF, was a normal petrol wagon, just racked up ridic mileage, went through tyres & brakes on a horrific basis and WOF checks weren\'t even a passing thought really

I guess they are just playing the averages

Just plucking figures out of my a$$ - say 99.9% of cars under 3 years old pass every time, and maybe that figure drops to 90% of cars older - why not relax the rules in line with rest of the world a bit as well for that 99%, it\'s just clogging up the WOF system for no gain.

As for cops doing wof checks - simple rule is "in in doubt, green sticker / ticket with lenience for getting a WOF" (the old get a wof in a week and ticket gets negated) would come into play there. Some things are blatantly obvious (say a cop at a checkpoint spotting bald tyres) but like so many things, the issue is in being caught in the act.

The sooner we get the NPR stuff in cars driving around (NumberPlate Recognition like the aussie highway cops have? does instant checks on plates as they go past and they are reaping no wof/reg tickets like nothing else) the better. They can\'t pull over every car on the road or spend all day on checkpoints, then people will bleat about "oh go get a real criminal". A few have said the problem already is the amount of people who routiently go with no WOF in the first place until if/when they get caught out.

The current WOF system is - as has been said - purely a "It was safe at X date & time". How many on here can hand on heart say they\'ve never put in a silencer for a wof, borrowed some struts - or wheels/tyres - or whatever just to pass a warrant? I do think some aspects of it are pointless - but it needs far better regulation than it has in the past. Old man works for the AA and had people come in having failled a brake test, chuck on a decent tester and hello it\'s actually fine - or vice versa. I know I\'ve had countless WOF\'s where I was going "please don\'t notice X" - and they don\'t - and you drive off going ok, I know that component is not legal/worn/whatever, but my Nana wouldn\'t have known... and still wouldn\'t know...

Can\'t win I guess

[Johnnynz]

Hearing people saying the Police will do more kind of worrys me on two fronts...

1. Many of them dont have a clue about cars sadly.

2. My bigger concern however is that Police are stretched so thin already. So does this mean more important crime will be overlooked for vehicle enforcement or vehicle enforcement will be a non event as violent crime is more important.

[Joker]

see my pink/green sticker post above

if they think its not up to standard I reckon you\'ll just get one of those

and yes as we have heard it happens to legit cars all the time

what I learn from that is not to modify your car to look like a dick

[Johnnynz]

Yeah I get that but handing out a sticker is still time not being devoted to "important Crime".

That said I also think this will mean more stickers for cars that arent poorly modded. If they arent sure they will just sticker you and its up to you to prove it. It will gather more revenue for the government in the long run I think and motorists will suffer.

It really feels like a more concerted attempt to have us all driving 13yo or less cars. Wait for the backlash when getting a WOF on car over 13 Years goes up

[soopersubaru]

Bad call on taxi V car. Good start to reasons for/against. and the 3yr new car is a way to free up the system?

It is a good way to get SOME bad examples over the over 13year age cars off the road.

Makes sense. But there will still be some cars that during their first 3yrs will get thrashed to the point where something will fall off due to use decay(Km ) as opposed to time decay(years)

Of course it will be driven by an idiot with no idea of mechanics. who will still have it on its first oil change probably. Further will not know how to open the bonnet either.

How do we pick these cars up? Ambo and a tow truck usually.

[MercuryFree]

 Marky said:

The sooner we get the NPR stuff in cars driving around (NumberPlate Recognition like the aussie highway cops have? does instant checks on plates as they go past and they are reaping no wof/reg tickets like nothing else) the better. They can\'t pull over every car on the road or spend all day on checkpoints, then people will bleat about "oh go get a real criminal". A few have said the problem already is the amount of people who routiently go with no WOF in the first place until if/when they get caught out.

This really is the solution. The amount of cars I see around with expired wof and/or rego is ridiculous. Police should stake out porirua pak \'n save car park, they\'d make thousands in fines