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Thorlek

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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:18 pm

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Hey Guys,

Do any of you know what the deal is with speaker holes in the rear parcel shelf in VIC?

the PO cut holes in mine for 6" speakers.

Will it pass a Road Worthy with the holes (with speakers in them) or will it get rejected straight out and need to be fixed/engineered?

Thanks

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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:20 pm

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If your worried about it, just cover it with a parcelshelf liner. The inspector wont check there. Then put the speakers back in when its passed.

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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:25 pm

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If you haven't got seatbelts in the back you'll be fine.

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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:34 pm

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Harley wrote:

If you haven't got seatbelts in the back you'll be fine.

the clubby has seat belts.... its a '75... i think they became mandatory around '71...

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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 10:10 pm

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Get it fixed! You lose a fair bit of structural rigidity when you cut the holes. Use speaker spacers if you want to put your speakers on the back parcel shelf.

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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:18 am

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as above the new inspection rule will find the hole fill them in

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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:38 am

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Slightly off topic but would a hole in the back seat panel also be deemed unroadworthy? The reason I asked is one of the mini's I looked at, when searching for my first one, had a 12in sub screwed to the back seat and that was the main reason I didn't even make an offer on that car even though it was almost exactly what I was looking for.

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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:15 am

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The factory put a 10 inch hole in the back seat. It was for the rotodip.
Same reason theres a big hole in the firewall.

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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:40 pm

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This hole had been opened up to allow the sub to be screwed in place without a spacer.

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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:40 pm

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how about one of those steel reinforcement rings? Puts the strength back.

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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:21 pm

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CPOCSM wrote:

Get it fixed! You lose a fair bit of structural rigidity when you cut the holes. Use speaker spacers if you want to put your speakers on the back parcel shelf.

True.
My P76 had 6x9 holes cut in the shelf.
A previous owner stuck some sheet metal over the holes and remade the parcel shelf but my roadworthy bloke still picked it up.
It took me some time welding new metal in there. :evil:

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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:13 am

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blueminivan wrote:

my roadworthy bloke still picked it up.
It took me some time welding new metal in there. :evil:

Did you need to get it engineered before it passed roadworthy?
Or just looking as it used to (ie welded, grinded, bogged, painted?)

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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:47 pm

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He was happy for me to fully seam weld it in.

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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 11:51 am

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had to fix daughter 2s shelf as well

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