How is it you can have road cam cameras, radar detectors, nav man's, cell phones, oil change stickers, wheel alignment stickers and WOF sticks on your windscreen, yet if you have a stone chip less than 5mm a few cm up from the bottom of your screen they'll fail you for a WOF? I've had bigger rain spots on my window!
curlcrown,
Sep 1, 4:48am
Most of the time those cell phone holders and what not suck to the screen are illegal but no one does anything about it. It depends where the chip is, it also depends where stickers are too. In any case you can get the chip repaired fairly cheaply.
trackim,
Sep 1, 4:50am
Yeah, but those other things were on the window when it went for WOF. And that particular chip was there last WOF. Repaired? They had to replaced the window! Go figure. And we wonder why our insurance premiums rise.
curlcrown,
Sep 1, 4:54am
It's not even an insurance claim, it should cost way way less than $100 to repair and you will get a certificate to show the WOF inspector, but do yourself a favour and go somewhere other than VTNZ for your next WOF. They are very expensive anyway.
trackim,
Sep 1, 4:59am
By the way that stone chip is definitely not in line of vision, the only thing you see from the drivers seat through that chip is the bonnet. Idiots!
gunhand,
Sep 1, 5:12am
Does VTNZ make the rules? or just enforce them?
snoopy221,
Sep 1, 5:18am
Because only ya windscreen has to have an approved marking as exactly when it was made without ANY chips to comply.
trackim,
Sep 1, 5:22am
Lucky Malones was open - feel better now.
curlcrown,
Sep 1, 5:53am
Do they even understand them?
esky-tastic,
Sep 1, 5:57am
Or: interprets them to suit its agenda?
snoopy221,
Sep 1, 6:00am
L M A O
hot time in the ole stratty with moose and emmett and the rules about historic buildings.
intrade,
Sep 1, 6:05am
i seen a hilux looked like 2013 or newer in manukau redoubt road With the whole right axle and tyre folded down broken off. i was gona look the next day to see if it said vtnz on the wof sticker. i would have betted on that it had a vtnz wof.
trackim,
Sep 1, 6:20am
You're showing ya age!
ozz1,
Sep 1, 6:24am
it would have been stolen by then.
snoopy221,
Sep 1, 6:34am
What ya mean i wasn't born yesterday and came down in the last shower. mmmmkay
kazbanz,
Sep 1, 8:14pm
Draw a line up and down your screen from the centre of your steering wheel -then measure 150mm either side of it. THAT is the area that legislation says must have all stone chips repaired. AND stone chips bigger than Xmm (X varying depending on the stone chip type) cannot be repaired the screen must be replaced. Its NOT VTNZ that makes those rules. They are though required to enforce them. If you have an issue with the rule take it up with those that passed the legislation.
gabbysnana,
Sep 1, 8:20pm
A4 size in line of vision.
sandypheet,
Sep 2, 2:29am
Centre of the drivers seat.Steering wheel has nothing to do with it.
Specific front/rear glass placement is considered part of the overall structural strength of the vehicles cabin. Glass is an awesome combination of tough/ rigid surface & flexible over wider spans but is easily weakened by chips & cracks
marcos1,
Sep 2, 3:51am
I have always been under the impression that a chip in a windscreen fail, is more to do with light refraction ? Correct me if I am wrong
mrfxit,
Sep 2, 3:55am
Both, surface cracks tend to reflect sunlight all over the place, & deep cracks weaken the screen & cause the same reflections. Any of those directly in front of the driver can be nasty in the wrong situations. "Drivers field of vision" is effectively the width of the average factory steering wheel, taken fully up & down the screen
marcos1,
Sep 2, 4:17am
Yep, I thought so. And a crack is a structural fail.
mrfxit,
Sep 2, 4:33am
BUT . interestingly enough (unless it's changed recently) not a fail on the passengers side only
snoopy221,
Sep 2, 4:41am
Hell it ain't that many years ago where a crack in the CVA was NOT allowed to be repaired and it meant a new windscreen Endo Of. At least now certain sizes of damage in the CVA. Are allowed to be repaired by an authorised approved windscreen repairer and are passable with written signed documentation from the repairer.
And yes a windscreen Is Structural
And ANYONE who ever saw the video of the safety glass windscreen that should have been a laminated glass one by regulation years and vehicle structure.
Well most AVIC's would have seen that video
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