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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lake Macquarie, NSW
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The EU referencing simply evolves into UNECE (United Nations) regulation - for eventual adoption worldwide, similar manner as the UNECE global technical regulations for motor vehicles.
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ORDER FORD AUSTRALIA PART NO: AM6U7J19G329AA. This is a European-UN/AS3790B Spec safety-warning triangle used to give advanced warning to approaching traffic of a vehicle breakdown, or crash scene (to prevent secondary). Stow in the boot area. See your Ford dealer for this $35.95 safety item & when you buy a new Ford, please insist on it! See Page 83, part 4.4.1 http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/media...eSafePart4.pdf |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sydney
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Using a 175/65R14 will give you a plethora of options regarding brand and tread and only be 4% out. You can also use a 185/60R14 tyre and be 3% out. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Perth, Northern Suburbs
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Seriously, what a pile of crap. The last thing we need are more arbitrary regulations concocted by a bunch of fart sniffing bureaucrats in Brussels.
People should be free to buy cheap crap if they so choose. They may be harsh, noisy, and have a little less grip, but fitting new cheap tyres has got to be better than hanging on to bald or damaged tyres because you can’t afford to replace them. I would also make the point that on many roads in Australia, European standards will have no relevance. What’s next? We ban Korean cars?
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Mot Adv-NSW
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lake Macquarie, NSW
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The fart sniffers didn't create the Specification, experts from the world community did, from EU to Japan to USA in 'working parties', their efforts then become a Global Technical Regulation, that states parties enter into contract with.
An incorrectly called 'European tyre' will work here as well as it would anywhere else in the world, if it's for the designated purpose. You also get greater consumer information on the sidewall, than say something complying with the dumbed down Aussie regs as they stand. It'd also force replacement tyres to match or exceed a cars top speed potential. Don't get me wrong, I wish the EU would dissolve, things were more harmonious under the nation states than this central bolshie system!
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ORDER FORD AUSTRALIA PART NO: AM6U7J19G329AA. This is a European-UN/AS3790B Spec safety-warning triangle used to give advanced warning to approaching traffic of a vehicle breakdown, or crash scene (to prevent secondary). Stow in the boot area. See your Ford dealer for this $35.95 safety item & when you buy a new Ford, please insist on it! See Page 83, part 4.4.1 http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/media...eSafePart4.pdf |
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Ballarat, VIC
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I currently have $99 per corner westlakes on my EF and so far have more grip and life the the $200 per corner pirelli's I had previously but since they where only $99 per corner does this mean my car is unsafe....................I think not!!!!!!
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Centrefold Lounge
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sydney
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Just do it at the next tyre change. keep the best 13inch for a spare. |
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