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t_tuffnut Wolfsburg Wizard

425 posts · joined Jun 2009 ·

#804742
I've worked it out! Fear not my slammed friends!

If you remove the trim from your car and smooth it out, the rules no longer apply! Do that and put spats in/remove the wings.
1966 Bug

1973 L Bug

HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#804773
1303Steve wrote:I don't want to get all political but if the Labor government gets the boot next year, the shadow roads minister Andrew Stoner is likely to get that portfolio, please go to his website and register for his newletter http://www.andrewstoner.com.au/

At least he listening now, it may a different matter if he actually gets the job

This the email I received from him

Dear Steve

This morning, I obtained a copy of the Keneally Labor Government's latest plans to introduce their long-feared harsh new vehicle suspension regulations.

A copy of Labor's latest VSI-50 regulation can be found here.

I am in the process of going through the document and speaking with affected 4WDers and car enthusiasts.

Please email me and let me know what you think of Labor's latest vehicle height regulations.

Regards Andrew Stoner

Totally disingenuous.

This is not a party political matter.

VSI50 is not "the Keneally Labor Government's latest plans" nor "Labor's latest vehicle height regulations". They are RTA matters.

Parliament doesn't ever knock back RTA regulations. Stoner will get up in the bear pit and argue and grandstand and get headlines and lots of free election advertising on car sites, but he will not vote against it he just wants the political milage. Watch Hansard, when the RTA present their final version to Parliament, it will be a 100% accept vote as always...

Devised by bureaucrats who remain in their positions regardless of who is in Macquarie street.

Fight the issue if you think VSI50 is damaging, don't prop up Andrew Stoner's ego by misdirecting anger at the Government, they can't change it, only the RTA can...

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#804993
Hi Matt

As usual an interesting reply from you, “Totally disingenuous” someone been eating their alphabet soup.

So how would you know that creating political pressure would not influence the RTA, we’ve had the Labor government since 1996, a new coalition government might take a different tack with the RTA if elected next year.

When the uproar occurred over the last version of the VS150, the then roads minister Michael Daly was moved to another position.

The RTA has now come back with a revised VS150. What do you think caused the RTA to do that Matt? Could it have been concerned people writing to their local members and voicing their opinions on forums etc or do you think that the RTA just thought that they would be nice for once?

Steve

HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#805008
1303Steve wrote:The RTA has now come back with a revised VS150. What do you think caused the RTA to do that Matt? Could it have been concerned people writing to their local members and voicing their opinions on forums etc or do you think that the RTA just thought that they would be nice for once?

Steve
What it had to do with was industry pressure and the way it was poorly written which had the effect of not allowing modification to fire, ambulance, police, railways, power and other infrastructure vehicles.

Popular pressure had precious little to do with the revision. The Government does not inform the RTA, the RTA informs the Government.

The only thing that changes rules is pressure from industry and the generation of taxable revenue.