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24-11-2020, 01:33 PM | #31 | |||
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I think our ADR's have things that may be included in either Euro, US or Jap standards, but probably not all 3 at the same time. There are specific things like headlights etc that has something to do with the crown in our roads? |
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24-11-2020, 01:58 PM | #32 | |||
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It can be used as a stop gap measure in the transition away from petroleum based fuels before we go full EV, it's an easy tick in the box you can use to brag about doing something. Our headlight output appears to look like the European ECE standard The US DOT one is different, at the end of the day this is one of Check out the beam pattern on US DOT and ECE HID setups This shows specifically LHD variation of the ECE beam pattern. |
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24-11-2020, 02:04 PM | #34 | |||
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FUPS, rear underun protection, air systems (non US/EU type) trailer hitches, road train regs, axle ratings, spotlights, bullbars, rear overhang, clearance lights, body building regs, body fitting regs, tyre wheel overlap, flap height, sleeper regs, exhaust stacks and that's just trucks.
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24-11-2020, 02:07 PM | #36 | |||
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If you concentrate on the blinkers of 2 cars you will see they are out of whack, then they will align for a short time then go out of whack again. The ADR is probably a speed range of flashes per minute. Look at the newest trend of blinkers rolling across the fitting. That must still somehow fit into ADR's and I'm sure that same rolling indicator flash is used in other countries. Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk
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24-11-2020, 02:23 PM | #37 | |||
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24-11-2020, 02:45 PM | #38 | |||
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Needless red tape, doubling up on bull**** l, it doesn't need to be unique for Australia and that goes for cars, trucks, spaceships or unicorns. |
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24-11-2020, 02:53 PM | #39 | |||
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PS I didn't make the rules.
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24-11-2020, 03:25 PM | #40 | |||
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Why does Australia need specific requirements around sleepers, clearance lights, overhangs, wheel covers, indicator flash rates? Absolute nonsense, if it works for a country with circa 350M people and a region with a further 400M people, it'll work for Australia with our 25M people without needing indicators to flash at X rates or the wheel covers needing X width. |
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24-11-2020, 03:36 PM | #41 | |||
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Our back roads with crap edges like to chuck rocks up at cars hence full guards (fenders, Yanks) Maybe you are asking the wrong people (on a forum) get up to Canberra and do something about it.
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24-11-2020, 03:53 PM | #42 | |||
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Another group of pollies on a fact finding* tour to Europe and America and noticed that Europe had lower speed limits and heavier axle weights compared to OZ. While America had faster speed limits and lower axle weights. We pretty much finished up with Europe's speed and America's axle weights. (* also incorporating pollies family holiday's)
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24-11-2020, 03:59 PM | #43 | |||
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24-11-2020, 03:59 PM | #44 | |||
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ADR - unnecessary red tape, accept DOT/ECE. |
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24-11-2020, 04:03 PM | #45 | ||
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You forgot CARB, The yanks can't even agree from state to state at least here its a National law.
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24-11-2020, 04:15 PM | #46 | ||
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Seeing as we no longer manufacture cars here why do we still have ANCAP? Why not accept the US or Euro NCAP, do we crash differently to the rest of the world?.
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24-11-2020, 04:18 PM | #47 | ||
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More spectacularly.
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24-11-2020, 05:26 PM | #48 | ||
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i reckon the blinkers on some modern cars are a bit in effective, mainly the ones that hide in the head light assembly, when an xd,xe blinker was going it was very easy to see.
i think road bike users pay to much rego, mainly the larger capacity bikes. i,m not allowed to put a momo steering wheel on my landcruiser, i,m not allow something sticking through the bonnet, i,m shore there's a lot of stupid , stupid rules that the adr have enforced, change them. make importing a car easier, and kick the cowboys out of the industry. in the year my friends car had catastrophic front end steering failure, we believe that the rego check should have picked up the fault. since that time i've observed that there is very little care and incomplete rego checks have been done. maybe its just my area, i don,t know, but i've been told by other people that they rely on the "safety rego checks" as a proper safety check and clearly this is not the case. how about fixing this up so people can have faith in the check, if it takes more time, up the cost of the check? |
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24-11-2020, 05:36 PM | #49 | ||
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The wattage on these indicators needs to be much higher. In direct sunlight you can only just make out if a blinker is flicking from within the headlight.
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24-11-2020, 06:23 PM | #50 | |||
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Most Aussies cars like XD/XE (as mentioned) & virtually all Commodores are much better. As far as blinker rate is concerned, the NSW ruling is between 60 & 120 flashes per minute. Blinkers which flash too quickly, e.g. when LED globes are fitted, is common fail for an annual rego inspection. Dr Terry |
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24-11-2020, 09:45 PM | #51 | |||
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ANCAP is fake news anyway with its ever shifting goal posts. |
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25-11-2020, 12:43 PM | #52 | |||
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Plus they could just use their overseas ratings, so it’s a complete waste of taxpayers money testing cars which have already been tested overseas. It serves no purpose at all. I’d also gut the TAC’s road safety area. All they do is claim they have reduced the road toll, when in reality it is the manufacturers making safer cars. |
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25-11-2020, 02:13 PM | #53 | ||
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25-11-2020, 03:52 PM | #56 | ||
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That would have been day time running lights that turned off while the indicator was flashing. Saw it on a Jeep the other day myself.
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25-11-2020, 04:09 PM | #57 | ||
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25-11-2020, 04:16 PM | #58 | ||
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I would just like window tint rules/percentage to be consistent within all of Australia.
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25-11-2020, 04:32 PM | #59 | |||
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Do the Chinese actually do testing?
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25-11-2020, 05:57 PM | #60 | ||||
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If i had my wish i wouldn’t even allow a single chinese ****box to be sold here. What’s right for the goose, should be right for the gander, and we should ban some of their imports like they have ours. Stuff them. |
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