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Originally Posted by Merv and Sharon
Sounds like your engineer will be out of a job soon? Clearly he isn't needed. This would be complete farce Baz, if it wasn't so serious. Did he have any problems with the colour of the car?
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This is how I see it Merv.
The NSW Govt., is broke. I have paid my Engineer $2,500 for his work which included the Brake test, Sound Test and Mechanical Examination.
I don't know what occurs in Qld or Vic., but here, when you take your car to the RTA for them to do their inspection, you are not charged.
The RTA Inspectors are pretty pissed that the Engineer is getting all that brass and they are getting zero. Whether it's a power thing or whether they have been told by the State Labour Govt., to discredit the Engineers by ripping their reports to shreads I don't know, but what I am sure of is that it's either one or the other.
What I do know is that the NSW Govt needs every cent it can get. After going through what I am going through at the moment, I now firmly believe that their tactics are to remove the private Engineers from this equation through discrediting their Mechanical /Structural reports and gathering that revenue for themselves.
Unfortunately, I can find no other ICV Cobra owner that has gone through this ridiculous new process in NSW. I think I am the first and I'm not too happy about that at all.
What I do know is that my Engineer is really going to earn that $2.5K. I will comply with their requests as this has been my dream for 45 yesrs. My Cobra will eventually wear my COB-600 number plates which I have had in storage at out local RTA office for almost 3 years, but they haven't heard the last of me by a long shot. Mark my words.
Baz