Rego checks.

Hang on Trev, Ya gettin all screwed up there!.

What's the go with pink slips in QLD, now?, or isn't there any.

Axle,

Once the car is registered up here and so long as the car stays in your name, no more pink slips required...EVER. Only need one when you go to sell it.

Trevor.

I think it may be so that the cars on their roads bear some semblance of roadworthiness, whereas here in Victoria, you can own a vehicle for 30 years & not put a spanner on it.

So, on reflection, I think it may be to save lives, rather than to be 'rort for the repair industry'.

Shaker,
The stats quite strongly show that "roadworthiness" is an almost negligiblel factor in death and injury on the roads.

Show me the stats!
Have you ever walked through crash repairers yard?

Hey Shaker, I don't reckon you'd find too many road worthy cars in the crash repair yard! ;-) Not post crash anyway! hehe! :-))

Cheers
Scoey!

Come on Shaker... It's speed that kills in states where roadworthiness is not a consideration... Umpteen billion dollars in revenue surely can't lie...

Speed has never killed anyone, its how you stop after the speed that matters.

Hi Shaker,

Off the top of my head:
Alcohol,
Fatigue,
Young males with a vehicle full of mates
Speed - and fast cars eg Commodores, Falcons, WRX, skyline etc etc
Inexperience and grossly inadequate driver training
Country roads and inexperience
Small vehicles with poor safety features

Unroadworthiness is so far down the list thats its hard to identify it as a factor. It did not rate in a campaign some years ago by SA Police targeting the 6 major factors that cause road death and injury.

In SA, the only organisation pushing for compulsory inspections are the MTA (for obvious reasons).
Our motoring organisation, RAA is against them - Inspections cost too much money for little benefit - money is better directed elsewhere.

Don't get me wrong - I service 6 vehicles in our family - I would never let my wife or kids loose in a vehicle that is not 100%roadworthy - especially tyres and brakes - both of which I replace well before they are worn. But a bubble of rust in the doors doesn't make a vehicle unsafe - and bogging it up does nothing for strength. I lived in NSW in the past.

Cheers
phil

And if I can just add an up-to-date reference:

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/downloads/rs2010.pdf

There is no mention in there of vehicle roadworthiness as being a factor.

Cheers
Phil

It was the same here in Vic Phil, the MTA was pushing very hard for the introduction of inspections. The conclusion of the government investigative commitee was that the benefit was too small to justify the expense. Case closed.

Hey Phil,

You know you can't argue with stats!

However did you know that when assessing the cause of accidents in vehicle accidents they don't look at root cause..... for example If I am just over 0.05 BAC and I run off the road and plough into a tree the statistics will say alcohol was the cause they ignore any other related issues. The tyres may have been bald, the roads wet and potholed and one headlight not working at night, the cause will still be alcohol, same goes for speed and fatigue. If the plod investigating finds one of those three factors all others are ignored when we then see statisics.

Hey Batman!!
(I enjoyed saying that :-))

I couldn't be bothered chasing up numbers - but I would welcome anyone to come up with any quality research that refutes what I've said.

You are right though - MVAs are multifactorial - its almost never just a single cause. But I'll maintain that vehicle "roadworthiness" is well down the list of factors causing crashes. I'll also maintain that yearly inspections are poor use of money, which could be better spent elsewhere to reduce deaths and injury from crashes.

Phil,

I am sure you're right, let's get a government/s that will spend the money on decent driver training and roads infrastructure, in an effort to reduce the road toll.

It shouldn't take an annual test to ensure cars are roadworthy. It's common sense and cheaper in the long run to properly maintain your vehicle.

But if I was drunk, speeding, roads were wet and it was dark then I'd prefer my car to be in tip-top condition......

Hi Bob,
hehe
Looks like you evaded the police random inspections!!!

Kids are great tools to have in situations sometimes.

When we redid our bathroom, we were wandering round our local Harvey Norman, and no sales people to help us.

So, to our 3 and 5 year old, we said it is time for a game of hide and seek...ready....GO!

As they ran around the store shreiking, we had 3 people quickly come over to us....lol.... we got a pretty good deal in the end. And when we had a problem 12 months later, they remembered us!

Kids are great in car yards as well - buy them an ice-cream, them wander over near the expensive cars. Any information you want, you will get ASAP.

ROFLMAO!

Mine are too old for that now, but wont get married, move out and have some grandkids we could borrow.

I wonder if there is somewhere you can rent them by the hour?

Pete