I am soooooo glad I live in NZ. I can get away with so much more than my assuie counterparts. We are slowly catching up in terms of certing. but it sounds like our warrant of fittness test is far, far less anal than your roadworthys. I took an old coupe I used to have for a WOF, and the wof man comes back from the drive in it and says,"NO WAY IS THIS THING A 1200, IT GOES WAY TO HARD" and Im like "WHAT, you thrashing may car?" (as if I never did HAHA)
Hes like "I hooked the wrong grar and it took off on me!"(dogleg box) So he starts pawing over the engine bay with a light to try and find the engine number. Despite the blatently welded engine mounts he gave up and gave me a wof!!!!!