New WOF rules

[siren676]

Ah crap so that means my starlet is in the 1 year check category

[Bling]

Of course it would have, but the new rules state first registered in NZ. It was first registered in 2001.

It says registered in NZ?

Do you also think a 1970 car registered here after 1/1/2000 is on yearly WOFs? The whole point is to give newer cars less frequent WOF checks. Using NZ registration dates is not exactly going to work is it.

It states FIRST registered.

[fevil]

So the older of my two aw11's could be on a 12 month WOF? LOL

[Bling]

Didn't even know they made AW11 in 2000+ years, but nice.

[Grrrrrrr!]

The ministers press release doesn't satanything about it being first registered in NZ, they all just say first registered. We will have to wait and see what the actual wording of the law is going to be. That is a while away

with the new inspection requirements targeted to begin on 1 July 2014.

http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-wof-system-will-save-kiwis-time-and-money

Also, coming soon*, late payment penalties on Vehicle licences (aka Rego)

And a revision of how ACC extracts it money.. dont be surprised if they split car levies like they did with bike levies, so anything 2L+ or turbo and japanese could get whacked with high levies, or they will do it on an age basis. (purely speculation on my part)

because the ACC and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment are currently investigating options for the future collection of the ACC motor vehicle levy. This includes investigating the alignment between safety risk and cost factors posed by a particular driver or vehicle.

*soon as defined on govt dept timescales, so probably late 2014.

[CAMB01]

Ok no need to get on your high horses and flame me about a simple a mistake I made. geeze.

Now I know why I dont like posting in forums.

[Al]

Its ok mate, its just the internet.

[CAMB01]

Its ok mate, its just the internet.

Yip

[DexGT]

How are they going to be able to tell when it was 1st registered over seas ? , because that is not necessarily the same as year of manufacture

[phoenix]

How are they going to be able to tell when it was 1st registered over seas ? , because that is not necessarily the same as year of manufacture

Based on the overseas de-registration papers required to register it here?
And yes, it is based on date first registered, not year of manufacture.

I do hope they make the inspection tougher. I proposed an age limit on tyres in my submission.

[iOnic]

To get it legal in NZ it needs dereg papers from overseas which have year of first reg overseas?

Edit: Beaten to it

[Grrrrrrr!]

Ok no need to get on your high horses and flame me about a simple a mistake I made. geeze.

Now I know why I dont like posting in forums.

Err, that wasn't a flaming, sorry if it came across that way. Just wanted to get accurate information out there.

[rolla_fxgt]

Vehicle defects are only to blame in 0.4% of crashes on the road.

To me this says that the current 6 monthly WOF schedule is working perfectly, and now they're going to mess with it. I wonder what the figures will be after the changes have been in place for a couple of years.

Exactly the same. Those that don't get WOF's now still probably wont get them. The rest of us will carry on doing what we've always done. Experts have done the figures based on our existing figures and checked them against defect rates around the world.
To me this says it won't change by much at all. From memory they project it will increase they road toll by between 8-12 people over a 10 year period. i.e 0.8 to 1.2 people a year more than could otherwise normally happen. So less than a wet holiday weekend.

Perhaps we should cancel wet holiday weekends too as they are more dangerous than going to yearlly WOF's?

[Bling]

Ok no need to get on your high horses and flame me about a simple a mistake I made. geeze.

Now I know why I dont like posting in forums.

Didn't mean to upset you. Just thought you had read it wrong (not that we have much to go on). Then people started to think they were getting yearly WOF checks when I don't think it is that way. Again, not that it matters and it's at least a year before they'll do anything about setting it up.

[Grrrrrrr!]

Perhaps we should cancel wet holiday weekends too as they are more dangerous than going to yearlly WOF's?

Cancel? How about postpone.. bugger wasting a paid day off on shitty weather. You'd get my vote for PM with that policy

[CAMB01]

What about import vehicles that were not registered overseas, but have been registered here?
Or do they have to be registered first before being able to be imported?

[Leon]

What about import vehicles that were not registered overseas, but have been registered here?
Or do they have to be registered first before being able to be imported?

They're moderately uncommon compared to the numbers of "normal" imports, but yes I can see that may result in a few anomalies.

The strangest one I've personally seen was an MX5 that was first registered for road use something like 4 years after build date.

This is more likely to be "strange" with trucks and bus' which are often first registered for road use up to several years after the chassis rolled off the production line.

Oh well ... I'm not getting too worried about it. My "new" car I think is a 1996 anyway!

[CAMB01]

Chelles' Mirage was never registered in Japan. It went straight from the factory into the Mirage cup. Been a racecar all its life.

[Bling]

Is it road registered? I don't know the entry requirements so don't know exactly how it would affect them. I guess it would be on the owner to prove the details though which might be hard to fake to make it newer than it is.

You can date Toyota cars from their chassis IIRC, could be the same for others?

[DRFTIN]

Chelles' Mirage was never registered in Japan. It went straight from the factory into the Mirage cup. Been a racecar all its life.

not exactly a common situation though is it