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Old 08-10-2024, 06:50 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr View Post
Being from where I am, and having already seen some awful makeshift car repairs, makes me wonder to which extent the signature of an engineer who didn't inspect the job getting done would be so effective to ensure the car is roadworthy according to the regulations there. Sure I wouldn't expect it to be done in such a reckless way that I often see in Brazil anyway...
The safety regulations for vehicles in New Zealand are borderline absurdly strict. A vehicle with any kind of accident damage needs essentially to be put back into the condition (in the areas affected by the accident) that it rolled out of the factory in. NZ's bureaucracy doesn't care about emissions, but one sheet metal screw into the unibody anywhere is an automatic fail. I'll be receiving a file with the vehicle, for something that, outwardly, left just a scratch on the paint.

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