During December 2011, NZTA carried out a reinspection programme in the Whakatane area, and discovered that about 30% of the VIRMs in use by WOF inspectors were not up to date. This seems very poor, and I would suggest is probably a reflection of the situation in other areas across the country.
It would be interesting to hear from some of the vehicle inspectors on here. Surely WOF issuers need to have a robust system to ensure their inspections are carried out in accordance with current requirements!
steve312,
Apr 25, 7:12am
Not really any excuse for not updating your VIRM.NZTA send updated amendments out with simple instructions on which pages to replace.
Often the amendments are just slight adjustment to wording and not really major changes to inspection criteria.Just comes down to being to lazy or supposedly too busy to read and swap the pages over.
I sometimes need to sit with the redundant pages next to the replacement pages and compare them word for word to find the changes.It often appears that the changes are just someone at NZTA trying to justify their existence and validate the need for their job to be retained.
Obviously there are occasionally major changes to policy but these are normally rolled out with plenty of warning and advice on how the changes will affect the WOF inspector.It is not very often you are not made aware of the big changes.
hrt,
Apr 25, 7:35am
As above, most of those changes will be pointless wording changes. Changing "light bulb" on one page to "lamp" and making sure the page has been changed. For the most part, there have been very few major changes, and the ones that have been made everyone will know about.
toyboy3,
Apr 25, 7:58am
when doing the pageupdates,look on the left of the page there is a black line indicating at the paragraph or wordsthats changed.
pauldw,
Apr 25, 8:02am
If you need a computer terminal to process the WOF why is the manual still on paper!
alltorque350,
Apr 25, 8:07am
The VIRM will soon be online only.
franc123,
Apr 25, 10:07am
Its being scrapped as we type, the online version is being implemented this month and the paper VIRM will be invalid by the first amendment to the eVIRM which is due in October. As for lack of updating by AVIC's up until now, well they know what happens during reviews, it drops your PRS score and increases your review interval. More fool them.
alan1111,
Apr 25, 1:28pm
When there are updates in the VIRM it is generally just a word that is differant. It will tell you what pages need to be replaced and where the change is they actually put a THICK line on the word that has changed. And from what i hear it will be a thing of the past very shortly the written virm.Its readily available online anyway and updated automatically so 1 less job for me to do. Had the following pop up on my login screen for wofs last week. As of 1st April 2012 new requirements for trailer lights blah blah blah But then said dont enforce untill new virm comes out. Well why the hell post it then just more confusion for the poor wof inspector.
bearcub16,
Apr 25, 7:14pm
Yip, Saw that one about the trailers last week. Just advise the customer it wrong and needs to be sorted, but here is your passed wof inspection. Makes the inspector look a bit dodgey.
ladatrouble,
Apr 25, 7:48pm
That's only for new trailers, so you can't enforce it on current trailers anyway.
tonyrockyhorror,
Apr 26, 8:08am
But if it came into force on the 1st of April, any trailers since registered should be to that standard.
smac,
Apr 26, 8:36am
Didn't stop my Pa's local inspector convincing him he needed new lights on his 1978 trailer before I got wind of it.
helsbels2,
Apr 26, 10:07am
rpvr wrote: During December 2011, NZTA carried out a reinspection programme in the Whakatane area, and discovered that about 30% of the VIRMs in use by WOF inspectors were not up to date. This seems very poor, and I would suggest is probably a reflection of the situation in other areas across the country.
It isn't just for the updates. We had a review a couple of weeks ago and they pointed out pages that hadn't been signed by the new inspector to prove he was competant in using each piece of equipment, yet he had signed all the training and induction pages. Also the date one of the books was finished wasn't recorded. So yes we were probably counted in the 30% dosen't mean we aren't doing warrants correct but more understanding what they expect recorded and self checked on each page of the manual is a job on its own. And who was it the other day complaining about the price of WOF's!
alan1111,
Apr 26, 6:08pm
Got my Wof audit in 2 weeks time really looking forward to it like a hole in the head. Got 22 months last time not bad since max is 24 months. Just minor paperwork let me down grr. Really want 23 months this time hopefully my self auditing i have done 3xs a year will get me my extra month i want.
zephyrheaven,
Apr 26, 6:23pm
The PRS manual is the biggest load of 'it worked for some strange business model in another country that gave up on it so in typical NZ quickfix manner lets adopt it' crap Ive ever had to deal with Its mind numbing & very useless
Mind you - I got a personal best score last time I was tested so all good 8)
zephyrheaven,
Apr 26, 6:25pm
I got 23 months last time, just stick to the same detail & attention you do with any WOF
johnf_456,
Apr 26, 7:54pm
We got 21 less time, was the paper work that less us down to. Since no one loves paper work. Next one is not to end of the year.
ladatrouble,
Apr 26, 8:38pm
They really don't like to give a perfect score, always some little thing to make you work on. But so, so much better than Motosafe.
franc123,
Apr 26, 8:54pm
Funnily enough it seems that these days getting higher PRS scores seems to be easier now than when LTSA (as it was then) first implemented it. Getting a score above 2.2 or 2.3 was pretty unusual and hard to achieve back then, now 2.7 and higher is much more common.Despite its tediousness at times I have no doubts that PRS has achieved what it was supposed to and lifted the overall standard of inspection and admin of the wof system, and weeded out those that were simply not performing.
modie61,
Apr 27, 4:03am
Highest score i got was a 2.7,as above they never give out a 3. Evirm is the best idea. What happened to the no wof idea !
carmedic,
Apr 27, 5:39am
I know someone who got a 3.
intrade,
Apr 27, 5:46am
rhe current requirements change like people changing for fresh underpants. It used to be to just name a fewfaded seatbelts crazy day. Then it was 10 secound smoke rule crazyness . latest one is that tyres all of a sudden need to be for the speed the carcan do like if you got a car that can do 190kphyou need tyres that go 190 to 250kph. even do the speed limmit is 100kph and you could not even drive 190 on 80% of nz roads. But hey more and more rules if they would do em all on each car a wof would take 6h
intrade,
Apr 27, 5:50am
there should be a propper test failing all things that can affect the car like cv joints and then a wof of should be issued for 2 years if car is rust free and if its got rust issues 1 year and if it is a welded wrack 6 months. now that would be real fair and still get old wracks off the road in 6 month time
franc123,
Apr 27, 4:27pm
The whole system is up for parliamentary review this year, including vehicle licensing and how it will be administered. NZTA have known this for some time, although what way the pollies will jump is anyones guess at the mo. When you look at overseas countries, those that have inspection regimes and what they do there are loads of possible outcomes.
zephyrheaven,
Apr 27, 4:43pm
Man you lie a lot.
"I got a 3.0 a fortnight ago, was very happy. Lighting is the big one at the moment.
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