trouble getting a roadworthy for modified cars in vicrtoria

Depends what you have on the car and the guy who is doing the RWC.
 
Ive never heard of Vic RWC testing taking pictures ?

Windscreen will be an issue . Any chips ? thats what they look at first bar anything .
No that its dark after 6.00 go to an after hours place for the RWC :)
 
Pay more less hassle. But at the end of the day you are cheating yourself if the car really isnt RW . A risk i wouldnt take especially with the cowboys out there cutting up their cars and playing around with wires.

Yes they now take pictures at the roadworthy, so that if you start changing things after the roadworthy, the roadworthy guy is covered.
 
You can still do some modifications, but they will probably need to be engineered, which can very quickly become expensive. 
The engineer carries full personal legal responsibility for any modification he approves, so they are not terribly keen on taking responsibility anything really radical.

It started back in September. All car have to be have to be done not just modified ones. 
 
Photo placing vehicle at workshop
another on the hoist with wheels removed
one showing VIN
one showing odometer
any defects need to be photographed
All photos have to be time and date stamped
all photos have to be stored for 7 years on 2 forms of media
 
 

As someone who does rwc checks daily you can EASILY jib these pictures.

For starters you only need the picture with the wheels off "if" the wheels were off whilst checking brakes (in other words wheels do not have to come off)

Odometer picture only shows kays and no modifications.

So too the chassis number picture (so no pic of the engine bay anyway)

Pictures of the car on the hoist/front/rear etc can still have the car on the hoist and that means you dont actually see the vehicles height if you dont want to.

Lenient towards windscreens now? I dissagree on that point.

The reasons they did this according to questioning them when we did our upgrade at that time was so they could stop people doing dodgy rwc (cars never even checked, over the phone rwc, cut and shuts and rebirth/kays wound back etc)

I am not condoning doing anything unlawful and certainly do not do dodgy rwc myself. just merely picking fault with a flawed control system.

One thing that should change is standardised rwc costs. atm there is no plan to do so but the price difference place to place can be huge.





To the op. Have a read of the information online about the victorian rw rules (all the info is there for you) and suss it out before you make your purchase.

I sold my AW11 to a Victorian & the modifications got through without drama. Had rims, zorst, headers & even a standalone ecu. Unless it's pretty wild, shouldn't be much drama.

kameleon
Lenient towards windscreens now? I dissagree on that point.

 
Im not talking about cracks just not so anal about a stone chip