Compulsory items on new car

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I bought a new Citroen DS5 2.0 HDI last week and love the car.

The car however came without a spare wheel and warning triangle.

When I queried this with citroen, they informed me that the car comes with a puncture repair kit and therefore there is no spare wheel. I prefer a spare wheel over the repair kit. There is no space in the boot for a spair and instead I have to order the wheel bucket to be fitted underneath the car at a cost of over R3 500.00 plus R2 700.00 for the spare wheel.

As for the warning triangle, they said that it gets shipped to them without this and there is no need for them to have one in the vehicle. Last I checked, it is compulsory for vehicles to be fitted with a warning triangle. Not sure on the legal requirements of a spare wheel.

Any one here can point me to any legislation that covers this.
 
I dont think a spare wheel is compulsory, but I am pretty sure it is compulsory to have a triangle in your car. I remember one of my friends getting a traffic fine for not having one.
 
This just put me off buying a Citroen. How on earth can they not give a spare...
 
National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act No. 93 of 1996)
National Road Traffic Regulations, 1999

Chapter VI : Fitness of Vehicles

Part II : Equipment on or in respect of vehicles

214. Emergency warning signs (Triangle)
1 For the purpose of this regulation -
a) The expression "motor vehicle" excludes an ambulance or motor-car first registered before 1 July 2006, a motor cycle, motor tricycle or a motor quadrucycle;
b) "reflective material" means reflective material which under all circumstances is capable of reflecting light; and

1A) No person shall operate on a public road-
a) a goods vehicle, minibus or bus, first registered before 1 July 2007 and with a gross vehicle mass of 3500 kilograms or less, unless there is carried on such a vehicle at least one emergency warning sign, which-
i) is a double sided sign having the shape, design, minimum dimensions and colours as illustrated hereunder and of which the red portion on each side-
aa) shall consist of red reflective material; or
bb) shall be painted red and have retro-reflectors in each corner; or
ii) is an emergency sign contemplated in paragraph (b);

b) any other motor vehicle, unless there is carried on such vehicle at least one emergency warning sign which is a warning sign complying with the requirements of standard specification SASS 1329 "Retro-reflective and Fluorescent Warning Signs for Road Vehicles" Part 1: "Triangles or UN ECE Regulation 27 "Uniform provisions for the approval of advance-warning triangles" and bears a certification mark.
Provided that in the case of a combination of motor vehicles, the emergency warning sign for every motor vehicle of such combination may be carried on the drawing vehicle.
 
marco79 said:
BMW also doesn't give you a spare wheel buddy.

@OP does the car come with run-flat tyres?
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yeah BMW comes with run flats

but imagine in the middle of nowhere ...and you are more than 80km from the next town

what happens

then you need to call AA or BMW on call services and time gets wasted

where as a spare takes few minutes and you good to go
 
samr1wp said:
yeah BMW comes with run flats

but imagine in the middle of nowhere ...and you are more than 80km from the next town

what happens

then you need to call AA or BMW on call services and time gets wasted

where as a spare takes few minutes and you good to go
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Several cars aren't equipped with spares these days; understandable in a Western European context, but far from ideal locally. At least the DS5 has room for a spare, but it'll be your choice and expense to add one.

I'd be a bit annoyed about the triangle, truthfully. I'd point them to Regulation 214 of the National Road Traffic Act which boils down to any motor vehicle first registered on or after 1 June 2006 having to carry at least 1 warning triangle. In essence they supplied you with an unroadworthy vehicle but, on the flip-side, aren't warning triangles like R80? How much of a pedant do you want to be?
 
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Wow. That is something I would never even consider checking. So do they expect you to sit on the side of the road without a triangle and fix your own puncture?

Crazy Talk.
 
SirFooK'nG said:
AFAIK, triangle is compulsory i.e legal requirement in S.A.
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Might be compulsory as the owner of the vehicle, doesn't make it compulsory from the manufacturer though.


No surprises really on the lack of a spare tyre. Many come with only a repair kit.



If motorcycles can do it...so can cars.
 
bromster said:
Wow. That is something I would never even consider checking. So do they expect you to sit on the side of the road without a triangle and fix your own puncture?

Crazy Talk.
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To be fair, if the tyre-in-a-can thing works as advertised, it'll be a hell of a lot quicker & easier than jacking a car up and fitting a spare in 99 out of a 100 cases. The problem comes in when you've completely destroyed a tyre in the middle of nowhere...
 
Effectively your car is not roadworthy if it does not have a warning triangle these days. Check the manual if it indicates where the warning triangle should be (my Honda has that). If not, either kick up a fuss with Citroen or buy one from a street vendor for R30.
 
By law all new cars from 2005 onwards should have a warning triangle from the manufacturer.
There was a mass drive toward this couple years ago.
 
lcbxx said:
Effectively your car is not roadworthy if it does not have a warning triangle these days. Check the manual if it indicates where the warning triangle should be (my Honda has that). If not, either kick up a fuss with Citroen or buy one from a street vendor for R30.
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Correct.
The new car could not have passed roadworthy tests before it was sold - so the roadworthy centre committed fraud.

*edit* hmm, seems new cars aren't required to be tested - but surely they need to pass SABS tests for homologation/type approval etc?
 
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