Ok sooooooo option D: find something that weighs 500 kg to put in the back on inspection day, yet still small enough to be covered with a picnic blanket :)

search in the gallery on here for the original brochers and show the inspector. I know he wont like the look of shiney lowering blocks! What size rim are you running? If you get a flat with even a 13" you will hit the susp before you hit the rim which isnt a good thing!

...now that I think about it...what weighs 500kg you could actually fit in the back??? What were the wagons made for...transporting concrete blocks????


...sumo wrestlers?

running 14s...yeh ive got that brochure scan somewhere...still stock doesnt make it legal... or does it?
I'm beginning to hate RWCs...engineer certs ect, its not so much them i hate, just the dismisinformation and downright confusion surrounding them.
One will tell you blocks are illegal the other not, the other day i heard if you pass rego and revert the car within 30 days..you get charged with fraud...wtf?

Nissan made them in case they needed to lug around lead acid batteries for an electric conversion in case the 70s oil crisis got worse :)

For reals D?
That wasn't in the brochure!

What happend to the chucking the bolts back at the bolt shop? I kinda liked that idea

As another 5 star who's been around since the wagon was new,they where all down hill racers when new for all the reasons previously stated.Now keeping in mind the 1K is a pre ADR stamped vehicle this means the vehicle should present in an "un modified state" to pass any RWC.
It's time to call RWC friends bluff because he's wrong,another example is if the car did'nt come out with a heater...it does'nt have to have one now if you follow the letter of the law,but some rwc folk think they know it all and won't do any up date reasearch.
On the lowering blocks,i have done several times what Beattie has suggested with no ill effects on road or track,just make sure everything fits nice and tight including the top pin in the block,i use a piece of steel rod and press it in.

Only joking but its for sure the lightest wagon ever made that can take 500kg
most commercial vehicles of this nature like daihatsu jet only carry 450kg payload
yet they weight about 850kg. Just keep the bolts for something else and then
re-set your leafs to what is needed. Usually costs 90 a side if your mechanic
takes them out for you and you take them to a springs joint.

Geez Wurel, This inspector is giving you a hard time. With the facts presented, IMO this inspector is not competent at doing there job. Commercial vehices usually have more rake than the typical passenger vehicle. Is the front of the wags been lowered at all?