Coilovers & Certification: "if it passes warrent, who cares!"

[Guest]

Hi I am looking at putting in coilovers. Car is currently fully legal and fully covered by insurance wih current mods and want to keep it that way.

I know you 'need' to get coilovers certed to pass warrent... however some members on the site are making comments like "if it passes warrent, who cares!"

So my question is.. if I do not get certification, but still pass warrent, and my insurance policy has coilovers listed as a modification for my vehicle, is there ANY reason at all to get the cert?? (eg. tough policeman, or I write someone's car off via crash, etc, etc).. Will I be legal driving around and covered by insurance?

Hoping for a clear answer (if thats possible).

Thanks.

[Jammasta]

 Sam93GT said:

Hi I am looking at putting in coilovers. Car is currently fully legal and fully covered by insurance wih current mods and want to keep it that way.

I know you 'need' to get coilovers certed to pass warrent... however some members on the site are making comments like "if it passes warrent, who cares!"

So my question is.. if I do not get certification, but still pass warrent, and my insurance policy has coilovers listed as a modification for my vehicle, is there ANY reason at all to get the cert?? (eg. tough policeman, or I write someone's car off via crash, etc, etc).. Will I be legal driving around and covered by insurance?

Hoping for a clear answer (if thats possible).

Thanks.

My insurance said no i wouldn't be covereed, and pleading ignorance is no excuse haha.

[wrx_lou]

definately not legal and definately not covered. you shouldnt be passing a wof without a cert so you therefore you shouldnt be covered.

[Guest]

just because an item passes a warrant it does not make it legal, it just means the warrant inspector could be fined or penalised in some way for doing such a poor job. you can pass you warrent, then have a headlight bulb blow as you drive out, even though you have a warrent, you still driving an unsafe car. if you get the jist of it lol

-smurff

[Koom]

Even if you "pass" a warrant with them in (it can always be claimed that they weren't in the car at the time) but for insurance to actually pay out, your car needs to be at a proper warrant of fitness standard i.e. if they find coilovers in your car and you've just pitched it off a cliff (or into a BMW like the ad), yet there is also no cert for the suspension, then you're screwed ;D

So yeah, not really legal either.

[dubbedup]

sums it up really....

[Guest]

 Koom said:

Even if you "pass" a warrant with them in (it can always be claimed that they weren't in the car at the time) but for insurance to actually pay out, your car needs to be at a proper warrant of fitness standard i.e. if they find coilovers in your car and you've just pitched it off a cliff (or into a BMW like the ad), yet there is also no cert for the suspension, then you're screwed ;D

So yeah, not really legal either.

thats the best way to say it +1 i like

-smurff

[Guest]

Thank a lot everyone. This is what I was half dreading/half expecting you all to say.

Thats made it much clearer for me, fully understand now.

Will have to just wait a little longer to save the cash for coilovers & alignment + cert now. Not a cheap mod is it... oh well will be worth it come my first track day

Thanks again for quick and clear replys.