IVIC claim that stakeholders involved
in the motor vehicle smash repair industry do not uphold
their legal, moral or ethical responsibilities when
repairing collision damaged vehicles. Consequently such
behaviour grossly threatens the personal safety of every
motorist and pedestrian.
IVIC believe there is a real necessity
for the public to become better informed of the real
truths and misconceptions of conventional collision
repairs and how any subsequent collision involving a
conventionally repaired vehicle will inflict more sever
injuries or be potentially fatal to occupants.
A number of aggrieved owners who
have been refused remedial repairs by their insurer
have since learnt their vehicle has also failed the
IVIC ‘Structural Tolerance Report’ and are
now defectively dangerous.
Each claim was administered under
the Insurance controlled regime by each of the larger
motor vehicle insurance companies in Australia. Each
vehicle was repaired by well established smash repairers
however the owners were horrified to learn of the short
cuts taken during the repair process only to leave their
vehicles in dangerous conditions of repair.
These owners now strongly believe
that the public deserves to be told the truth. To help
publicly expose the deficiencies of conventional collision
repairs and methods, all owners have collectively pledged
their collision repaired vehicles to IVIC to conduct
a series of laboratory controlled crash tests.
All vehicles will soon undergo laboratory
controlled crash testing to determine:
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1) |
the true crashworthiness
of the collision repairs. |
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2) |
the integrity of any fitted
aftermarket replacement parts. |
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3) |
the severity of potential
injuries compared to injuries possibly sustained
with uncompromised integrity crash testing. |
IVIC believe the crash test results
will conclusively determine that conventional motor
vehicle collision repairs are dangerously inferior and
can not return safe structural integrity to collision
repaired motor vehicles.
All results will be published on
this site as they become available.
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