compliance plate required for removing seats?

Seems to be ok for us mexicans!!!

Dad stripped seats out of a Hiace commuter and payed $550 for the engineers cert plus whatever the RTA charged $600.00???? to change it to a panel van with windows. As it was it had 2 seats too many for a car licence so it had to be done. Still a rip off.

I've fitted 2 Recaro buckets with Recaro bases to fit the DX Cab Chassis and got rid of the 1 & a bit seat that was useless for an adult. I used the origional mount points & bolts for the base and seatbelts (drivers seat has a position to bolt the seat belt to)

Anyway it has gone through a pink slip no worries so I'm going to leave it as it is, not paying a grand to get rid of 1/2 a seat.

Macca

Oopsey ... mine are out and long gooooonnnnnnne ...

Never intend in selling it though, so not sure that's an issue for me ...

Interesting facts thanks fellas
mine didnt come with extra seats

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I changed the font size when I edited it

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fair enough, I managed to skip over it and then went back looking when all the larger entries were for more than 10 seats - lack of attention to detail on my part first time round :-)

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Oopsey ... mine are out and long gooooonnnnnnne ...

Never intend in selling it though, so not sure that's an issue for me ...

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BigRig, remember that you only avoid a compliance plate in Qld if you have temporarily removed the seat, even if not selling.

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BigRig, remember that you only avoid a compliance plate in Qld if you have temporarily removed the seat, even if not selling.

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Hmmmm .... define "temporary"? LOL!!

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Hmmmm .... define "temporary"? LOL!!

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I'm probably making a mountain out of a molehill here.

if a transport inspector or a copper starts asking questions about that third seat, they will be expecting either a certain answer or a compliance plate :-) I have never heard of that question being asked, but the bloke over the road does roadworthies and it has been covered in his recent training.

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I'm probably making a mountain out of a molehill here.

if a transport inspector or a copper starts asking questions about that third seat, they will be expecting either a certain answer or a compliance plate :-) I have never heard of that question being asked, but the bloke over the road does roadworthies and it has been covered in his recent training.

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Mate, don't think for a second that I'm dismissing it, not at all ... There's just not much I could convincingly state to the officer to suggest it's temporary when I have a bloody big drawer system covering the mounts where they used to be ... just one of those things I'm afraid ...

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Mate, don't think for a second that I'm dismissing it, not at all ... There's just not much I could convincingly state to the officer to suggest it's temporary when I have a bloody big drawer system covering the mounts where they used to be ... just one of those things I'm afraid ...

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I've taken them out while I've got all this stuff in, and when I want to move more people than 5, or I want to sell it, I'll put them back in :-)