TheMAN said:
TUV isn't so bad if you think of their sole purpose... public safety... their mentality of "everything is unsafe until proven otherwise" is a good thing...
basically yes, those insititutions are there to provide safety..but there are 2 annoying facts...
usually everything is allowed until it's forbidden (at least laws in the civilized part of the world are constructed like that) ... and our StVZO (the main law for certification of cars/parts/rebuilding) is also built that way..there aren't SO many rules in it and it is quite liberal..)
but the real funny thing is that the TUV (as a NON-GOVERNMENT institution!!!) tries to bypass that (liberal) laws by announce their own rules of "testing" the conformity of parts/building with the StVZO..
that means: they got their own hundreds of papers where they sort of make their own rules, although the laws state otherwise.. and what is even more ridiculous: cops sometimes enforce those bad rules of TUV, even though the law states otherwise... this makes me SO ANGRY because cops' only task is to enforce LAW, not rules of a private institution..
for example: there is -nothing- in the StVZO regarding how low your car can be (lowering springs etc)... but the tv states: well, if the space between the street your car is less than 100mm, you get problems and we might "shut down" which means nothing more than you may not drive it legally from that moment on (and don't dare to because this is a crime (while most other trafficthings would be misdemanours))...
this s*** makes me so angry..."overriding" laws and domineering people is a f*cking bad behaviour... you simply have almost NO freedom building/equipping your car... no matter what kind of part you bough..they will always find a reason to say "NO!" although this isn't even covered by law and they're always trying to expand their influence... MAY THOSE FǖCKTARDS EXPLD!!
