Fines for vehicle defects SA

[Matty4]

Originally Posted by sudszy

This thread is about being fined for not having working lights

Ahhh.....no it's not!!!
Take some of your own advise and read things properly before you open your metaphorical mouth...........it's about "Fines for vehicle defects SA" (look, it even says so at the top of every post^^)

Originally Posted by sudszy

What relevance the fact that I drove a car without a speedo(to clarify, the speedo "worked" but not to any consistency or accuracy and there were no regs for that at the time) for three years has to that,

It's very relevent......your advise for everyone on here that has put up examples of having a blown headlight/ taillight is to either replace said defective item or take the vehicle off the road until such time as the repair has been effected

Originally Posted by sudszy

Same thing you do when any event happens where you cant get restore you car to roadworthy condition to continue your journey.....you park it,until it is fixed, or call for a tow truck and take it to someone that can.

Whether you have to remove half the front of the car to change the globe or the car was zapped by aliens there are no exemptions to being legally allowed to drive your vehicle in an unroadworthy state.

and therefore bringing the car back into a roadworthy condition, yet you failed to heed your own "advice" and remove your own vehicle until said defect was repaired.

You can't be the moral crusader that you wish to be and expect everyone to "do as I say, not as I do" because you lose all credibility. In fact, you already have with pretty much eveyone who had posted in this thread.

Don't you feel like you're with this crowd and your energy would be better utilised on something far more suited to your "talents?"
See here
http://www.walk.com.au/pedestriancouncil/page.asp (although I suspect you're a member already

BTW.....whilst you're on this crusade about blown taillights,

Originally Posted by sudszy

Ben, its all about being able to make out the four corners of the vehicle. If you look up the ADRs there are regs about how far from the edges of the car you must place headlights, brakelights, indicators and tail lights.

head over here and inform all of them that they must all take their cars off the road until they can rectify the situation of only having one brake/taillight...
http://forums.fxfjholden.com/

Matty.

PS. still waiting on an update to your profile letting us know who you really are