Shaved door handles, leagal or not?

Ive just been told by a supplier I was looking to by solenoids fom that shaved door handles are ilegal in some states. Has anybody had any experience with this in NSW?

Why would they be Illegal.... there fitted to just about every make of modern car

or this

He means no handle/latch... just a solendoid....

i think he means no handles at all... and use a remote/solenoid to open the door..

ha.. there you go..

Blake Hoggert got his Transporter approved without handles.

dont see why they would be illegal.... but you all know the government

You mean like this....

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[Edited on 10/5/2005 by Oasis]

You are aloud to have them ALSONG as you have an EMERGANCY door release on the outside of the vehicle.
So in other words you have a button on the outside of the vehicle that allows you to open the doors other then the remote.
Though im pritty sure you HAVE to get a engineers cert. But to pass for an engineers you need that emergancy release on the outside of the vehicle.
Alot of work and prob not worth it unless you have the time of day and can physically see other cars with them to get an idea.

I think he means like this 😀

FATBUG wrote:You are aloud to have them ALSONG as you have an EMERGANCY door release on the outside of the vehicle.
So in other words you have a button on the outside of the vehicle that allows you to open the doors other then the remote.
Though im pritty sure you HAVE to get a engineers cert. But to pass for an engineers you need that emergancy release on the outside of the vehicle.
Alot of work and prob not worth it unless you have the time of day and can physically see other cars with them to get an idea.

yeah if you were in a whack and they needed you out quick, how would they open da door from da outside?

might seem trivial but if my car was 'heaven forbid' on fire
i want someone to be able to open the door to get me or my family/dog/original log books out of the thing before it goes "im melting"
maybe thats why govt. dept has the rule

It happened to a Hot Rod in Melbourne just over a year ago. Rod crashed, battery was dislodged, sparked, fuel line dislodged, fire. The solenoids on the doors would not open and the chop top was too low for the driver and passenger to get out of any window openings. Well it was a sad day as you can understand what the outcome was.

There would be a similar ending if the doors were locked yeah.

[Edited on 10/5/2005 by RENNWAGEN]

The problem was these rod doors had no way of being opened once the battery was disconnected. You may ask, then what did the owner do if the battery went flat, well the battery was acessible from the outside.

Personally i like shaved doors but when it comes to safty and if it was a car i was driving everyday i would not do it.

As was said before, this is why we have design rules.

Would you let your child/mother/relative go in a car that if they had an accident there might not be a way to get them out quickly???

Cheers
Dave

What about keeping the latch on the inside and just getting rid of it on the outside?

pete wood wrote:What about keeping the latch on the inside and just getting rid of it on the outside?

Yeah but what if the person inside is unconcious and the car is on fire.......

What then if the person was unconcious and you couldnt get to them?

lol I had the window open to this page and didnt refresh before posting :P

Hey Mike, My car is white in my pic :P

I had shaved handles on a beetle in the UK some years back, only had the solenoid on the drivers side, passenger door still had the normal internal handle. To operate the drivers door from outside was with a magnet via a hidden reed switch and from inside by a big button on the dash, the passenger door you simply opened from inside. I understand the safety aspect but if I was in a burning vehicle and unconscious I would not be terribly upset if someone smashed the window to get me out! Plus on a funnier aspect of it, once the car was outside and got completely buried in snow, at the time I was concerned as to whether or not the solenoid would work but that ended up not being the problem as that worked fine what was the problem was that the door was frozen shut and there wasn't a door handle to pull on!!!

my mate recently got defected for having shaved doors on his mini truck,$250 fine and was made to put handles back on,they look sweet shaved but you need to know how to dodge cops..this was in newcastle nsw by the way-isaac

Helbus wrote:The problem was these rod doors had no way of being opened once the battery was disconnected. You may ask, then what did the owner do if the battery went flat, well the battery was acessible from the outside.

I would be sure that there are some pics of this vehicle around. Would there be a chance of viewing any?

The idea of ignoring the need for both an internal and external manual connection, usually a cable of sorts, to any door locking/opening mechanism is both ludicrous and totally stupid. Every shop should refuse to do the job w/o using them and the driver/owner should be severely fined if discovered, in any manner, without them.

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