Hey guys, brought this into the country from the U.K a few months ago brand new.
Cost me over £50 not including the horrendous postage costs to get it to me in New Zealand.
Now pulled it out of its plastic package and threw the wrapping away, it sat in my storage locker untill finally last week I took it to my local garage and asked them to fit it....
The news is this kit is illegal on New Zealand roads
I've tried a few official Goodridge outelts and it's all the same.

Now my only option is to sell them on E-Bay, what I want to know first is, is my 6x hose kit complete (as in every nut and washer).
I'll let the pictures explain as I don;t want to put an incomplete kit on ebay and muck some poor soul about

Quite p!ssed off really, as for me to have this kit custom made exactly the same will cost the equivalent of over £100.00.
Makes me laugh as surely these hose kits are far superior to the 18 year old rubber ones that are on my Sapphire curently.

Cheers chaps and sorry for the barrage of photos

 

Why is a safer and more reliable brake set up illegal ???!!!

 

Same in Belgium, you can't have metal brake hoses.

(i have though )

 

Thats shite mate, as they are the better type than the rubber ones

 

Just get them fitted elsewhere ...

 

Yea, it's f@#king backwards mate
As Joris said, I think the reason is that they're not sleeve with clear plastic on the outside. The pen pushers here that make the rules want the plastic sleeve to stop the potential of the stainless steel braided hose rubbing on something and subsequently wearing through... hahahaha what a crock.

I'm sure if I took the original hose and one of my new illegal in NZ good ridge ones and rubbed it with a stick for a few hours, the rubber one would wear through first

 

I've tried mate....

 

Fit some black rubber round them

 

Can you not fit them yourself.

Im sure between this board we can give you a straight forward DIY guide


its really not that hard

 

could you not fit them?

 

I know mate, there's a tonne of knowledge on here Dave...

The trouble is every 6 months when I have to take my car for a W.O.F (Warrant of Fitness) I think you guys call it a M.O.T or something
The inspectors will pull me up for the hoses and fail me , I really can't be bothered putting them on every 6 months and having to remove them for each W.O.F

 

what a shitter

looks like Ebay it is then

 

Yea mate, someone in the U.K will do alright out of them.
So just to go back to my first post fellas....
Is my hosekit complete, hopefully I haven't lost a nut or washer in the months that they've been sitting around.

 

looks complete to me.. I wouldnt worry too much

if a washer was missing, they are'nt hard to replace

 

Cool mate, ebay here we come

 

why not get some flexible rubber hose and slide it over the hoses - might be a bastard come sliding it over the 17mm unions tho but that would then satisfy the rubber outer to not cause damage on anything?

 

Love to mate, but that won't work either.
Basically the certification needs to be done by an official Goodridge tester/retailer.
All the hoses technically need to be road legal here are these little yellow heat shrink tags on one end with a series of numbers and letters which the goodridge retailers here put on the hose kits they make.

They won't do this for me, all they can do is take my U.K set which I brought, replicate it with there fancy goodridge braided hose with clear plastic sleeving and numbering and charge me more than twice what I paid for my set

 

Thats a bucket of arse sometimes it makes me glad I live in the UK - at least we are allowed to add safety features to our cars without the government saying "bollocks, pay us to do it"

 

thats properly crap mate
rules is rules for some strange reason, but some are truely bizzare

what are the goodridge people over there saing baout making up a new set of pipes for you?
and if they are illegal to make there anyway how do you know they won't pull you up no the test when you get 6 months down the line?

sounds like the hose people out to line their own pockets, but thats becuase i'm cynical

 

^ Yea mate, it's a crock of sh!t alright.
Basically they just hold you to ransom for the little yellow tags with the numbers on. That's what makes them road legal

 

so, not only Belgian law and rules are totaly crap!

 

You can get goodridge hoses with plastic sleeves. You dont have to just get the stainless looking ones, you can get them in all sorts of colours etc. Couldnt you just get someone to send you a set of those ?

 

My Goodridge hoses have the plastic sleeving on them as std..... years ago they didn't have the sleeving over hear like your 1's and imo they are probably a set of "old stock" hoses as I haven't seen a set for quite a while without plastic see thru sleeving

 

As Steve says,mine are the same,they have got the clear cover over the braid
Bought from GGR last month

Think you have got some old stock there m8

 

Yea must be mate.
Do the ones you guys have just brought, have any numbers on little yellow sleeves?.
Or do they just have the yellow sleeve with Good Ridge stamped it it?.

 

Can't honestly remember m8

Cars not here,will look 2moz when I go to work on it

 

So what information do the yellow tags they put on their hoses have written on them?

Never heard of this before, i work for Goodridge too (dont get that involved with the flexible lines side of things though) I dont know if this its out of date or anything but i just had a quick look around and found this http://www.lvvta.org.nz/CertThreshol...eApril04V3.pdf In section 8 it says that stainless steel braided hoses dont need certification

I got to that info from this page http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/vehicle-ownership/warrant.html Hopefully i havent missunderstood what i was reading

 

Cheers for the indepth reply mate

Yes seems like a bit of a contradiction mate for sure.
From what I understand in all my dealings with the my Cosworth mechanic and two Good Ridge authorised dealers.
The first issue is the fact that my hoses don't have the clear plastic 'Goodridge' sleeves on the outsie of them.
Secondly and the first thing the aforementioned people bring up when I show them my hoses is the fact that they don't have the little yellow sleeves with for example "FM823465877" stamped on them.
It's a safe guess these are some LTSA "Land Transport Safety Authroity" number

I'll make some more enquiries on Tuesday when people are back at work.

 

I work in the engineering dept so dont have much to do with this sort of thing but if you wanted i could ask someone in aftermarket sales and see if they can shed any light on it ?????

I'm not back at work until Tuesday though