Rust Checks Will Be Mainly Visual

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31973, 28 April 1969, Page 22

Rust Checks Will Be Mainly Visual

(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, April 27. The check for rust on vehicles as part of the new warrant of fitness regulations coming into effect next month will be mainly visual inspection, the Minister of Transport (Mr Gordon) said yesterday.

“If serious corrosion is suspected, employees at vehicle testing stations will test sections of a vehicle with a torsion bar to determine what strain it will take.” Mr Gordon said that if tor-

sion bars were not available' garages and testing stations would probably use small jemmies. The purpose of the regulations was to remove “old bombs” from the road. Motorists with superficial rust on panels would not be affected, he said. “The regulations are concerned with deep-seated corrosion which would tend to make a vehicle unsafe on the road. For this reason corrosion which would seriously weaken cross members of the chassis would cause the vehicle to be rejected for a warrant of fitness.

“Other places which would be looked at closely by vehicle testing officials would be around spring shackles and door pillars. "The regulations aren’t concerned with such things as corroded mudguards.” he said.