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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    A regular ... legally required ... vehicle test, is a fair (for all) method. Not perfect ... but an option we can live with. They could come up with a worse system.
    Bollox. Show me where WoF checks reduce accidents.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DEATH_INC. View Post
    BECAUSE...read My earlier post.
    MANY people in this dumb arse country will NOT change a bald tyre/worn out steering part/brake pads/disk etc etc unless they HAVE to. I see this EVERY day (that I'm at work) and I'll bet everyone else that has anything to do with wofs does too....
    Look at how many come in at the end of the 28 days grace period to get a recheck, after failing on stuff and still driving around on it for a month.
    That's why.

    BTW, I've personally seen a Mitsi with a completely shot steering component at only 40,000 k's, about 6 months old, not that long ago....
    And thats why the legal requirement fails to address the safety issue; because it shifts the public's views on it to a legal issue, and not a safety one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    Bollox. Show me where WoF checks reduce accidents.
    Prove they don't.

    With the dangerous defects they do find ... ones I might add ... am glad they find and (hopefully) remove from road use. It would be a lottery on the road if NO checks were done. That same we all might be on at some stage.

    Agreed it wont find and fix all possible problems ... but fixing some, will remove some ...

    A few on here have "met" some motorists with no WoF or Rego. Much was usually involved. Even those WITH insurance.

    With NO WoF scheme ... it wont get better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    And thats why the legal requirement fails to address the safety issue; because it shifts the public's views on it to a legal issue, and not a safety one.
    No argument there, but some people (a larger number than you think) in this country are to f*cken thick to think of their, and others especially, safety.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    Bollox. Show me where WoF checks reduce accidents.
    You sound as retarded this time as you did the last time you used that argument.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DEATH_INC. View Post
    No argument there, but some people (a larger number than you think) in this country are to f*cken thick to think of their, and others especially, safety.
    I do wonder if this number would shrink if they weren't forced to get somebody else to check it for them.

    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    With the dangerous defects they do find
    But how many defects do they indirectly create?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Berg View Post
    And anyway, a huge percentage of the really shit vehicles out there don't have a WOF anyway. This only affects the more honest amongst us.
    A larger worry to me is the fact a testing stn will test a fully loaded log truck (new regs require load or simulated load for brake testing) then cannot do a damn thing when it fails on 6 from 8 brakes. They are required to watch said fully loaded log truck leave, go and finish its day then go to a workshop for repair. I hope that scares the crap out of more than just me.
    As a non logging truck driver I object to that statement, there's plenty of other types of trucks running around with safety defects that would scare the bejeesus out of a few KB members...

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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post

    But how many defects do they indirectly create?
    Are you seriously asking how many defects the WOF process indirectly creates?

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    And 1 other thing that has been mentioned, the mta/vtnz thing. I'm guessing that most people don't know how this came about. I'm not gonna explain it (I only got the abbreviated version) but it was the lesser of the evils.
    You can put your money on the fact they thought long and hard about the potential damage the campaign they ran to keep the wof system as is (was) could do.
    The average garage makes very little from a wof check (the owner of our business has considered dropping them in the past). True, there is money to be made from the repairs, but they need doing in any case don't they?
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    Quote Originally Posted by caspernz View Post
    As a non logging truck driver I object to that statement, there's plenty of other types of trucks running around with safety defects that would scare the bejeesus out of a few KB members...
    Knowing a few truckies, this is the understatement of the year!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katman View Post
    Are you seriously asking how many defects the WOF process indirectly creates?
    Ever heard somebody say "I know my tyres are a bit bald, but they'll last until the next wof"
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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    Ever heard somebody say "I know my tyres are a bit bald, but they'll last until the next wof"
    Are you blaming the WOF process for a vehicle owners stupidity?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    Ever heard somebody say "I know my tyres are a bit bald, but they'll last until the next wof"
    All the time, that's my point. Now imagine if it's 12 months instead of 6....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katman View Post
    Are you seriously asking how many defects the WOF process indirectly creates?
    I have no idea WHAT he means ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katman View Post
    Are you blaming the WOF process for a vehicle owners stupidity?
    It seems some people have strongly suggested that, because people are stupid, they need a WOF to make them maintain their vehicles to a safeish standard. The counterpoint here is that some people will maintain only enough to pass each WOF, rather than fixing things as needed. Or they pass their WOF and drive an unsafe vehicle 'believing' it to be safe cos it passed it's WOF...pretty stupid huh? We all know the WOF is just a snapshot of a vehicles condition at the time it was tested.
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