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Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005 Fri, 30 January 2004 03:52 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Yep, I sent an e-mail to the Motor Trade Association WA guy after he put an article in The West Australian newspaper's Motoring section. Heres the e-mail he sent back:

Thank you for your comments - your points are noted.

No other country in the world allows 15 year old vehicles to be imported for obvious reasons. Even New Zealand which had allowed mass importation of used motor vehicles draws the line at 1996 models.

A vehicle 15 years old is only as good as its maintenance record. In many cases with used imports this is an unknown factor. There are obvious road safety and environmental risks associated with vehicles of this age as well.

Whilst your experience might have been favourable with older vehicles you do not receive the considerable number of complaints that the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection and the MTA receives of speedo tampering,
the unavailability of parts and mechanical breakdowns that occur with these types of vehicles.

The Department of Planning and Infrastructure inspectors that are
responsible for the enforcement and regulation of used imports also have serious reservations about the quality and type of vehicles that are going to be brought in under these 15 year old arrangements. For this reason they are setting up very rigorous rules including engineering tests that will need to be performed before the vehicles will be able to be registered on our roads. Hopefully this will sort out the wheat from the chaff.

If you are an importer or linked to a vehicle importer you should be aware that this new regime is going to be imposed in the very near future.

Basically, this guy represents the local manufacturers, who have every govornment agency by the balls. We've got snowballs chance in hell of preventing this legislation past. Holden & Ford are bigger & scream louder than we enthusiasts can.
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