The NZ Police have been found out making up their own rules- and have had to cancel a number of Pink and Green Stickers, and related offence notices.
A customer (who shall be nameless) was given a Pink Sticker because his car was below 100 mm gound clearance, even though it was Certified, and was at the ride height on the LVV Cert plate.
When the Police Officer was contacted, he advised that they had been told to issue offence notices if the ground clearance was less than 100, regardless of the LVV Plate ride heights.
The Police even wrote a piece in the advice column “NZ Performance Car” magazine explaining their policy.
The Low Volume Vehicle Technical Association contacted the NZ Police and explained the situation, and now the Police have changed their policy, and we expect a retraction in the next issue of the “NZ Performance Car” magazine. The customer who first complained has had his offence notices and Pink Sticker cancelled.
Top marks to the NZ Police out on the road for having to deal with some of the garbage cars out there, and dealing with the attitude they sometimes get. Lets hope that they get some better training on the rules!
If anybody else thinks that they have been wrongly ticketed when their car is LVV Certified, they should contact the Police, and if that doesn’t work, contact the LVVTA
i am pleased that got cleared up… i appreciate that the law is the law but if your car has been deemed road worthy at a height by an industry professional how can a police office (with no specialist training) say its not even though everything matches up
good work LVVTA
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About time the NZ police had a kick up the ass, Nothing more annoying then typical NZ cops thinking they specialise in anything and everything telling you the LVVTA is wrong
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Our car just got pink stickerd because it was 50mm lower than what was on the cert plate but is not lower than the legal height off the ground, was also stickerd for being to loud but the officer didnt even test it, later that day we took it to get the noise red and it was lower than the legal limit, what should we do about this, is this an example of the police making up there own rules?
The LVV Cert plate allows a tolerance of plus or minus 5% on the height, which is measured from the centre of the wheel to the top of the wheelarch. If you are within that 5 % you are legal.
(Maths- 5% of typical ride height about 300 mm, is 15mm, so if your car is 50 mm lower than what the Plate says you are NOT legal)
There is NO legal height off the ground limit, either for standard cars or modified cars. The ONLY place 100 mm comes in is when a standard car is lowered but NOT Certified- (The Certification threshold)
Check your facts carefully. If you think you are not guilty, (if your vehicle is NOT outside the tolerance on the Cert Plate) then look at your rights on the back of the offence notice.
can a car get blacklisted from the wof system i am looking at purchasing a chevy the number plate is DDN543 and i have been told by people not too buy it as they hear it has been blacklisted and can no longer get wofs.is this true and can anybody contact me with information please.thanks 0211627599
This is the info from Landata-
The last WOF expired in 4/6/2007
The rego has run out, in 30/10/2010, however I think it takes 12 months before they are struck off and have to be re- complied.
I can’t think of how a car could be “blacklisted” without it showing up on Motochek.
If you know a Compliance centre, such as a VTNZ or AA station, they may be able to bring up more information- I would ask before I paid any money.
Hope this helps
Hi…
I’m in the middle of the planning stage for an E30 to complete in the BMW Castrol driver series… I’m looking at rebuilding a car that has been off the road for a while… As the car technically no longer exists I’ll need to have it re-VINed… I’m wondering what the process is after that… The car will be built directly into a racing car (ie: homologated cage etc etc) and will have a MANZ Authority Card… It seems like the whole process is duplicated if I have a homologation (and authority card) from MANZ telling me that the cage is safe and then I have to ask the LVV certifier the same thing…Can you tell me what the correct process should be… Cheers
Hi Kenny- The MANZ process covers the roll cage and harness belts and possibly seats- there is no need for LVV Certification for those parts.
There could be LVV Certification required for other mods such as engine, brakes, suspension.
Hope this helps John Brett
Hi John… the series authorised mods are very limited… I managed to speak to another LVV certifier today and it looks like I’m not going to need to go through the process… Thanks for your reply… Cheers, Kenny