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wraith Regular Location: Albany WA Registered: October 2003	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005 Fri, 30 January 2004 03:52 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. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	slpdesign99	Mon, 19 January 2004 22:44
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	Caledwvech	Mon, 19 January 2004 23:12
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	slpdesign99	Mon, 19 January 2004 23:22
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	RobST162	Mon, 19 January 2004 23:46
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	slpdesign99	Tue, 20 January 2004 00:06
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	RobST162	Tue, 20 January 2004 00:10
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	slpdesign99	Tue, 20 January 2004 00:32
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	RobST162	Tue, 20 January 2004 00:32
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	slpdesign99	Fri, 23 January 2004 04:09
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	chrisss	Fri, 23 January 2004 07:43
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	RobST162	Sun, 25 January 2004 00:24
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	wraith	Fri, 30 January 2004 03:52
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	Caledwvech	Mon, 19 January 2004 23:56
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	RobST162	Mon, 19 January 2004 23:58
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	wiso	Tue, 20 January 2004 00:48
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	Caledwvech	Tue, 20 January 2004 00:56
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	Intensevil	Tue, 20 January 2004 04:45
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	ae86drift	Tue, 20 January 2004 05:27
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	shcao	Tue, 20 January 2004 06:25
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	Intensevil	Tue, 20 January 2004 09:44
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	biased99	Tue, 20 January 2004 12:56
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	4DaDrift	Tue, 20 January 2004 13:23
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	5m3ghead	Tue, 20 January 2004 22:53
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	Chrisso	Wed, 21 January 2004 02:47
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	Shraka	Fri, 23 January 2004 13:00
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	Shraka	Fri, 30 January 2004 04:22
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	Caledwvech	Fri, 30 January 2004 04:40
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	Shraka	Fri, 30 January 2004 04:45
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	Jag7799	Fri, 30 January 2004 06:42
	Re: SERIOUS NEWS -- 15 Year Rule WILL CHANGE ON 1 JAN 2005	wraith	Sun, 01 February 2004 14:33

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