VTNZ are a pack of Wankers

[Ixion]

Many (but not all) VTNZ places are totally out of their depth dealing with anything outside the "two year old Toyota Corolla" type of vehicle.

But , there are good ones. The "old guys" can go either way. Some are anally retentive morons, who test everything on the aforesaid 2yo Corolla basis. Some, are the opposite , and will say "Oh, yes the xxx isn't much good, but then they never were, can't expect it to be better than when new".

I like to take a very boring bike or car along and observe. Dickheads are easy to spot.

[racefactory]

Happy Birthday dude!!

Yeah WOF is just a fucking joke really. An expensive gamble that comes up and has to be done twice a year for many.

One thing i learnt about WOF is to personally check over all the areas yourself thoroughly and if you have any doubts about difficult cunts as such not passing something particular, go to a testing station and try and get someone to kindly come out and just tell you if they will think it will pass. If they don't give you what you want to hear just move on to the next one. In my experience if you go to some asian places, they seem to not be too into fucking you over, very good, fair people a lot of them. I know VTNZ wails about giving you an unbiased check but the rediculous shit that comes out from that place is absolutely not on.

[Mom]

So what is it VTNZ, are Porirua letting through deathtraps

Man I am going to take Gubbstration and use it

I dont think it is one VTNZ mate, it is some of the people that are employed by VTNZ around the country.

Case in point. We have a caravan, it is now permanently parked somewhere for reasons that will become obvious soon.

We went to get it all legal to tow it for our family summer holiday, now we are not stupid people, we dont like to take risks with our children so we are happy, nay overjoyed with bliss, to get the WOF clean bill of safety health for our vehicles. Haul the thing to the testing station and it failed Brakes lines bleeding and cyclinders leaking. That may or may not have had something to do with the fact it seemed really heavy to tow so we stopped to discover the handbrake was on

Anyway, we take it to our local Pit Stop (brake specialists, and able to issue warrants too) for repair. Some $400 later it is good to go, we hook it back up and go to VTNZ for a recheck before we hit the road to the beach. Bloke that failed it originally is not happy with the repair! EHHHHHH? Here is my invoice showing what work has been done, the are specialists afterall, and bugger me purple, they also can issue warrants too, what do you mean you are not happy? I get a tiny bit grumpy sometimes

Well the brake lines are not attached to the chasis as I would like to see them says gormless twat. I just looked at him.

We got WOF and took off for our holiday. Some of them simply need a Gubb "look".

[Flip]

If the old fool had known jack shit about old cars he would have realised:

The car is on 175-14 race compound tyres not 145-13 cross plys, That the car was lowered. Had positive camber front suspension. Had a race sway bar and a rear pan hard rod fitted. Had a exhaust that well makes more noise than my harley.

He was just an old fart who took it upon himself to find some thing to fail the old girl on, It took about 2 hours to get the car through what should have been a 10 min inspection.

[SMOKEU]

Fuck VTNZ. The testers there nearly dropped my bike several times, then 1 of the guys did a hard launch inside the workshop and got the back wheel spinning a bit, then he locked the back wheel and got the bike a bit sideways. I wasn't impressed by the way they treated my bike.

[scumdog]

After I point out the expired certificate he stamers and says that the machines are self-calibrating and don't need certification anyway. I ask why they bother then, and he can't really answer. I ask to speak to the Manager, but apparantly he's not there and won't be for another 3 weeks. Fuck it, I can't do anything about it there, so I up and leave out to Porirua to the shop where I originally had my tints done. They use a meter to test it and say it's fine, the worst they found was 35.6%. He then explains that they have a few people come in with similar issues, and have a letter on template which points out a letter from the head of the LTSA saying that there needs to be a 5% tolerance to the 35% tint threshold. He said he would e-mail that to me as his Printer was broken.


After this I realised that I didn't ask which direction to Fog lights were out of alignment by. I call into the VTNZ in Porirua (after picking up a Birthday treat) to put it through the re-check to find out which way to direct the foglights.

They re-check it, and it passes through everything. No problems with the tints, fog lights or wipers.

So what is it VTNZ, are Porirua letting through deathtraps, or is Thorndon Quay far too harsh. How can a car get failed at one place on 3 seperate counts, but go through fine at another station 2 hours later when nothing has been touched?

Obviously there are double standards, and how can you justify testing cars when your tools are out of certified calibration? Surely that makes the whole process null and void anyway?

Pull your head in. You haven't heard the last from me yet. I'll be writing a motherfucking letter. That's not how I wanted to spend 4 hours on my Birthday, and the first day i've have off for 3 weeks.

Tell SixPackBack - it will give him a new windmill to joust at.

[DarkLord]

Sucks to hear about your car, even more about your tyre.

[imdying]

You guys still get warrants?

[Pedrostt500]

A quick rule of thum for VTNZ stations is stay away from the ones that are bussy all the time, I found the one in Upper Hutt quiet good, though i havent been back for a few years.
I have found some garages will fail a vechicle just to charge for unessesary work.

[davereid]

Fuck VTNZ. The testers there nearly dropped my bike several times, then 1 of the guys did a hard launch inside the workshop and got the back wheel spinning a bit, then he locked the back wheel and got the bike a bit sideways. I wasn't impressed by the way they treated my bike.

Yeah, my bike only has a side stand... so the VTNZ guy approached with a jack to stick under the fairing to jack it off the ground... then he complained that only the left hand headlight worked on low beam...

Now I go to a local garage where the WOF guy is a petrol head... he actually understands his job, bikes and cars.

Its great to know that if there is something wrong he will find it, but he wont fail you just to be a prick.

[T bone]

its rather amusing reading these comments, I used to be a mechanic, part of my job was warrant inspector(which I hated) I remember a car coming in from VTNZ & they had missed that a ball joint had excessive play, along with a few other minor issues. Interesting indeed

[AllanB]

Then when it came to my WOF the cunts made me do the whole just about about. I had to sit on the bike, put the lights on, put the indicators on etc. WTF was I paying them for?

Eh????

All my bike WOF's are like that - I even get to heave on the bike to pivot it up on the side stand so they can spin the wheels.
Then we talk about bikes while they write down the chassis number and I'm out of there in 10 minutes.
A few years back the guy checked so little on the bike other that the lights, horn that I suspect he was actually the cleaner who had grabbed my clip board.

With cars some are really anal and appear to be making issues that do no exist.

I'm pretty sure you letter will get your point across!!!!!!!!!!!

[ready4whatever]

Does anybody know what the Whakatane VTNZ is like. I'm sick of shit that needs fixing every time. wondering if the mechanic just wants extra work so he fails you. Happy birthday man

[YellowDog]

I don't like them either.

If you aint got a centre stand, you need to be strong.

[shafty]

Happy birthday Gubb and thanks for the laugh.

Bowl in with a digi camera, walk right up to the prick, take his photo and walk away without saying a word LOL

Then post the Prick Pic here LOL