Can you contest a bad WOF tester?

[The Pastor]

Ii wanna see a pic of the shit hawk

[roadracingoldfart]

Ten unattended camper vans are obviously contract work and not so urgent that a bike can't be slipped in. Sir, your pompous git attitude doesn't align with easy going attitude that most regular Kiwis extrapolate into common sense

To be honest you just sound like you're looking for a flame war, and that I can happily provide... he's actually quite a good cunt, so how about you pick on someone who's more than happy to tell you to shove your attitude up your arse.

I will assume you are the other posters mother or close to it.
Flame wars dont bother me, i have better things to do with my time.
I am still trying to work out how someone can be both a cunt and a good person , hmmm , i will dwell on it for a while.
As for picking on someone , you have a very small dick obviously and dont like anything said about your son.
By the way , i dont have attitude , i am arrogant and a bastard , and you can ask my mum for clarification.
If a van is booked in and the driver is not there or whatever , does not dictate a motorbike , car or another camper has any more importance than the booked in vehicle, thats what a que is all about , first in first served is the rule at VTNZ and the signs say park at the end of the line , that was plainly missed by the rider.

Other than that , i am glad to have given you a topic to comment on as you seem to have stuff all better to do , even though its more than likely unqualified. I have an AVI grade so shove that up your arse.
Come in for a WOF sometime , ill treat you fairly.
Have a good day.

Paul.

[imdying]

I have an AVI grade so shove that up your arse.

Ahhh, couldn't cut it as a real mechanic... figures

[roadracingoldfart]

Ahhh, couldn't cut it as a real mechanic... figures

Dont know what that means , .... a few details for you .
Service manager of a Honda workshop , Mechanical engineer (structural , general) presently Foreman of a Ford / Mazda workshop.
I see you extracted i worked for VTNZ you sad sorry piece of crap. lmfao @ you.

[imdying]

Mmmm, and still doing a mind numbingly boring job... Good to see life has taken you places

/edit: btw, I do agree, VTNZ appears to be full of couldn't hack it mechanics.. but I didn't say you worked there, not even I'm that insulting.

[roadracingoldfart]

Mmmm, and still doing a mind numbingly boring job... Good to see life has taken you places

/edit: btw, I do agree, VTNZ appears to be full of couldn't hack it mechanics.. but I didn't say you worked there, not even I'm that insulting.

Wrong again matey ..... never boring or numbing at all and i get very very well paid and perks with a car etc , and VTNZ is where mechanics that cant do it go to retire.

[hmmmnz]

vtnz is sometimes slack, they failed me on a leaking exhaust, and leaking fork seal,
i replaced the fork seal, and did nothing about the exhaust, and they passed me,

id say if its too much hassle to get a retest, then pay for a whole new test with a small bike company,
vtnz guys pick out the stupid shit, and some times let the dangerous stuff go because they dont know bikes

[toycollector10]

Just to kick this back into life...

QUOTE from a few months ago from me:
Another station I went to there was a guy testing a MK II Jaguar, with no one else around. He said, "Sit down, I'll be with you in about 20 minutes" I said "No thanks, I'll go somewhere else" and he got all sar-caustic like. I drove past the place 4 hours later and the MK II was still there waiting for the owner to pick it up. If it was my business I would have dropped everything and grabbed the new customer because the Jaguar could wait. Obviously, he was on wages and didn't own the joint. Costing his boss money and putting his own employment at risk, real intelligent like. Another vehicle testing wanker.
UNQUOTE.

For some strange reason I went back to this testing station yesterday to get a WOF for my Z1. The owner's a good guy and we talk bikes and stuff. That day he wasn't there and the same guy (Mr Efficiency, his employee) comes up to me and says "Fill in this form and leave your key in the ignition. I'm going to ride the bike into the shed to test the brakes" Now, this is a bike I spent two years and many dollars restoring. So I told him, "No way mate, if you want to ride a bike, go and buy one yerself" or words to that effect. I went down the road to another station where I did the skid test myself, like always. What a plonker that guy is, doing his boss out of income.

[hayd3n]

i always go to Dunedin warrent of fitness centre down hill side road
2 bikes 1 car

[BiK3RChiK]

I've always taken my vehicles to my local garage to get WOF's. The only time I've taken one to VTNZ was when I purchased a vehicle in a city several hours drive away and VTNZ was right next door.

I would never take a bike to VTNZ to get a WOF. To me, that's one of the reasons my local bike shop is there for.

VTNZ don't even enter my mind come WOF time...

Oh, and I've taken vehicles to a different garage when I was unhappy with a WOF once or twice. I remember being failed for stupid things on a WOF on one of my vehicles and to me, most of it was BS. So, off I go into town to a garage I'd used when we lived in town and, lo and behold, they picked up some other faults with the vehicle that were critical to vehicle safety and they never mentioned ANY of the things it had failed on at the previous establishment!

[PeeJay]

Just to kick this back into life...

QUOTE from a few months ago from me:
Another station I went to there was a guy testing a MK II Jaguar, with no one else around. He said, "Sit down, I'll be with you in about 20 minutes" I said "No thanks, I'll go somewhere else" and he got all sar-caustic like. I drove past the place 4 hours later and the MK II was still there waiting for the owner to pick it up. If it was my business I would have dropped everything and grabbed the new customer because the Jaguar could wait. Obviously, he was on wages and didn't own the joint. Costing his boss money and putting his own employment at risk, real intelligent like. Another vehicle testing wanker.
UNQUOTE.

For some strange reason I went back to this testing station yesterday to get a WOF for my Z1. The owner's a good guy and we talk bikes and stuff. That day he wasn't there and the same guy (Mr Efficiency, his employee) comes up to me and says "Fill in this form and leave your key in the ignition. I'm going to ride the bike into the shed to test the brakes" Now, this is a bike I spent two years and many dollars restoring. So I told him, "No way mate, if you want to ride a bike, go and buy one yerself" or words to that effect. I went down the road to another station where I did the skid test myself, like always. What a plonker that guy is, doing his boss out of income.

You showed him !!
cheeky prick wanting to test the brakes, next thing you know he'll be turning the lights off and on and beeping the horn

[aroberts]

... where I did the skid test myself, like always...

The place I go to doesn't do a skid test.The guy just checks it all over while it is on the stand. Do they have to do a skid test?

[Bounce001]

Just to kick this back into life...

For some strange reason I went back to this testing station yesterday to get a WOF for my Z1. The owner's a good guy and we talk bikes and stuff. That day he wasn't there and the same guy (Mr Efficiency, his employee) comes up to me and says "Fill in this form and leave your key in the ignition. I'm going to ride the bike into the shed to test the brakes" Now, this is a bike I spent two years and many dollars restoring. So I told him, "No way mate, if you want to ride a bike, go and buy one yerself" or words to that effect. I went down the road to another station where I did the skid test myself, like always. What a plonker that guy is, doing his boss out of income.

Had a mate that went to a VTNZ for a bike warrant and some young mechanic was twisting the throttle fully while trying to start his bike (it's fuel injected). Mate went over and gave him a warning to get off his bike. The mechanic told him had to ride it in to the workshop to test it. When mate asked if he had a bike licence, the mechanic said no and then couldn't understand why mate said that if he didn't get off the bike now he would be knocked off it.

Moral of the story... Don't trust VTNZ when they are getting mechanics to issue bike warrants when they don't even have a bike licence. How legal is this???

[Katman]

The place I go to doesn't do a skid test.The guy just checks it all over while it is on the stand. Do they have to do a skid test?

A road test is an integral part of the WOF process.

My response to anyone refusing to allow a road test is to point them to the door.

Moral of the story... Don't trust VTNZ when they are getting mechanics to issue bike warrants when they don't even have a bike licence. How legal is this???

It's not legal. To be certified to do motorcycle WOFs you need to hold the appropriate license.

[R1madness]

How many times do we have to put up with people moaning that their bike wont pass a WOF... Sounds like the tester did a solid job, picked out some faults on your bike and rightly failed it. Just fix the stuffed bits and go get it rechecked.
Yes a cracked taillight will cause a fail, yes a seat with modified seat mounts will cause a fail, yes it needs a working speedo, yes it will fail if it has had bits removed and leaves (what the tester considers to be) dangerous fittings exposed.
Top marks to that tester. More testers should take their jobs seriously and fail bikes that do not meet the required standard. Maybe if your bike had good tires and a working headlight he might have overlooked a couple of the small issues on the understanding that you would repair them asap, but rock in with stuff like that and they know you just dont give a shit about your bike or yourself so they have to take the hard line.
Lets get this streight, i love modified bikes, have one myself, but the mods on mine are done in a manner that makes it impossable for a tester to fail it. Use (E)marked indercators and headlight/taillight lenses. Follow the rules and modify to your hearts content. Just dont blaim the tester if you get it wrong...