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For starters.
LVVTA of NZ stands for .Low Volume Vehicle Technical Association of New Zealand.
Who are they...A group of career engineers with a background in automotive or structural engineering.
Please take note of the New Zealand part.
Now the reason I am posting this is due to the volume of interest this article has created in the UK and Europe.
Unfortunately It is only a legal remedy for said vehicle imported into New Zealand
This specific load bar is not legal in any other countries.
This has been approved by the NZ government to remedy a systemic issue with WD21 and R20 bodies.
Why is it not legal anywhere else you ask....
The LVVTA was set up to allow car enthusiasts to legally modify there cars and still meet the safety requirements to drive on public roads. There job is to ensure that the risk of safety of the occupants and other road users and pedestrians will not be increased by said modifications.
When It became apparent that the R20/WD21 had a bad rust issue that effected occupant safety the LTNZ(land transport new zealand) consulted the LVVTA and asked them to come up with a alternate remedy for the otherwise very expensive body repair work that would be required to repair the rust...normally so expensive it would not have been worth the repair and result in most WD21/R20's been written off the road.
This load bar is considered a repair in New Zealand and yet classified a modification out side of New Zealand
What can you do.
Lobby the minister of transport in your country to either adopt said designed bar as a remedy for repair or create there own.
The issue. In New Zealand we do not salt our roads in winter, the rust issue there fore does not become systemic as it does to affected WD21/R20's in Europe. If your vehicle has this issue in the UK you are probably better off getting the entire floor area rebuilt with a single sheet of heavier gauge steel as apposed to the OEM double sandwich of panel steel.
LVVTA of NZ stands for .Low Volume Vehicle Technical Association of New Zealand.
Who are they...A group of career engineers with a background in automotive or structural engineering.
Please take note of the New Zealand part.
Now the reason I am posting this is due to the volume of interest this article has created in the UK and Europe.
Unfortunately It is only a legal remedy for said vehicle imported into New Zealand
This specific load bar is not legal in any other countries.
This has been approved by the NZ government to remedy a systemic issue with WD21 and R20 bodies.
Why is it not legal anywhere else you ask....
The LVVTA was set up to allow car enthusiasts to legally modify there cars and still meet the safety requirements to drive on public roads. There job is to ensure that the risk of safety of the occupants and other road users and pedestrians will not be increased by said modifications.
When It became apparent that the R20/WD21 had a bad rust issue that effected occupant safety the LTNZ(land transport new zealand) consulted the LVVTA and asked them to come up with a alternate remedy for the otherwise very expensive body repair work that would be required to repair the rust...normally so expensive it would not have been worth the repair and result in most WD21/R20's been written off the road.
This load bar is considered a repair in New Zealand and yet classified a modification out side of New Zealand
What can you do.
Lobby the minister of transport in your country to either adopt said designed bar as a remedy for repair or create there own.
The issue. In New Zealand we do not salt our roads in winter, the rust issue there fore does not become systemic as it does to affected WD21/R20's in Europe. If your vehicle has this issue in the UK you are probably better off getting the entire floor area rebuilt with a single sheet of heavier gauge steel as apposed to the OEM double sandwich of panel steel.
