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No pass for you

I had to go do the yearly car test and renew the papers today and they wouldn’t pass my car. Last year I installed the lift and large tires on my Wrangler and I didn’t know what to expect during the car test since I couldn’t find any proper information regarding the legality of car lifts.

I got to the check up area and the inspector took a look at the car and wrote something down on the paper. He then called a second inspector over and told him that I have a lift and large tires installed. The other inspector told him whats it to you let the guy install whatever he wants and pass him. The first inspector then told the second one that he had already wrote on the paper that I had large tires installed. They discussed it among themselves for a few seconds but since he had already wrote there was a problem there wasn’t much that could be done. I asked them what the problem was and the second inspector replied back in very fluent English that the problem was that my tires were sticking out from the side of the car and that I should go over to the other inspection area on the other side and see what they would have to say there.

So I drove to the second inspection area where a guy came up to my car and told me I wasn’t allowed to install different rims and tires on the car. According to him the only way he would pass me is if I install the original wheels and go back to him. So now I need to see if the garage that installed my lift still has my original tires. If not I guess will have to pass by the scrap yard and see what I can find.

54 replies on “No pass for you”

Mark, every one in Q8 modifies his/her car i don’t see a problem with what you did to your car, i think you should re-do the paper work and take it to a different passing station. Jabreya or the main one.

You shouldn’t go alone ya Mark!

Only Kuwaitis are allowed to change tires, don’t you know that!!!

I have a 97 X car (just in case they are watching me) Supercharged with Spoilers and many other normal customizations that you can find all over the world. I could not let it pass first time in year 2000. Since then and for 9 years my car did not leave my house as I get the papers stamped and delivered to my house.

Now that is Legal !

Mark, what they said is not something new and we all knew it. Its a very old old law.

any way, why bother with all this mess? all you need is wasta and your papers will be done with your car parked in your garage. there are couple of indians who work over there at someones office. i think they charge 45 to 60 dinars per renewal.

Happens to everyone from time to time… this is where you should use some was6a because 4 inch lifts are legal in Kuwait. I think you should also consider some wider fenders, people driving behind you because your wheels won’t throw back as much crap cracking everybody’s windows.

Come on man dont play innocent.. you live in Kuwait just get a wasta and voila.. last time i didnt even take my car with me.. I swear..

Anonymous: I did want to get wider fenders but so far this year two times the tires sticking out saved the car from getting hit:

1) I was driving on the left lane taking a sharp turn when a range rover sport cut into my lane. His front bumper hit my rear right wheel. If I had wider fenders he would have ripped them off

2) Nat was driving along on the right lane and a small white toyota on the left lane didn’t see nat somehow and drove into her lane. The side of the toyota hit the rear left wheel of the wrangler breaking the side view mirror of the toyota and denting it. If I had wider fenders they would have been broken or ripped off.

heartbeat,,
It is not about being kuwaiti or not.
Yes the Wasta play a good role, but this is not about kuwaiti or not, if u r not kuwaiti and u have connection u can do it, if u r a kuwaiti and u don’t have connections it will never be done.
So it doesn’t have anything to do with kuwaiti or not, Stop ur hatred toward anything kuwaiti

when u see how inspections going on in the States,, u will pray day and night that u r in kuwait

Cajie: Its not illegal to install a lift. Its illegal to have your wheels sticking out of the fenders which is what I have. I was supposed to order the wider 6inch fenders but due to the safety comfort of having rubbers sticking out from the side of the car i never got around to it.

Now if the guy there tells me lifts are illegal thats the problem, they’re not but try explaining that to him. Luckily he told me just to swap the tires.

Go to Ahmadi and get it done there….i heard they r the most easy going officers u’ll ever find in q8….try yr luck…all the best!!

Mark, I suggest you get up to the Amghara scrapyards and buy the cheapest regular size tires you can find (get the guys who you buy them from to fit them). Get the car passed and then put the bigger tyres back on.

@Pediatric Dentistry
i don’t disagree with you but given the case of Mark where his modification relatively are minor. Do u want to tell me if a Kuwaiti was there he couldn’t have passed? it happened with me million times and when a dear Kuwaiti friend goes with me it goes like a charm and most of the time my friend did not have wasta there just casual conversation.

and definitely I am talking about minor issues like Mark only.

Mark your car license got punched at the door right?
you cant change the papers now without Wasta.

nope, don’t think so at least. need to check. i am not looking for wasta. will just get the wide fenders and make the jeep street legal.

Well if you’re interested in going there and only a stock set of rim and tires are holding you back, you can take the ones I have to finish your inspection. as I already bought the set to use when driving from/to Shalehat or Subbeyah, no point of burning my 35″ M/T’s on high-way miles :))

mark i got a 4door jk with 35″ and 4″ lift with front bumpers and xenon fenders basicly i ve changed my wrangler to an unkown vehicle…so last week i was driving down the highway when a chrysler 300c with blue lights flashing at me was following me and asking me to stop..so i stopped and the guy came to me wearing a dishdasha and showed me his ID…guess who he was !? hes the “mosa3id modeeer il mrooor” which is something big !! so he told me hand in ur keys and call for anybody to pick u up…i was wtf why !? he told ur vehicle is not stock and its against the law..i told him about the pickup trucks with the 100inchs cruising around kuwait..he told me when i see them ill catch them !! i told ok but why r u making it a big deal !! he told me that ur vehicle is dangrous to the people in the road !! wtf hes doesnt even make sence !!!! so he got out his walkie talkie and starting calling any “dawriya” near by…so the “dawriya” came the policeman whisperd and told me…quick call anybody now and ill buy some time for u…so i started calling and i got the same reaction with everybody “MODEER IL MOROOOR ? GD LUCK WITH THAT” !! so i called my uncle and he came and started talking to him..talking and talking till he came to me and me that im gonna let u go now but tomoro moring at 10 am ur gonna come to my office with ur vehicle turned back to stock !! wtf !! stock !! so basicly i have to remove the bumpers, xenon fenders, system exhust, lights, trektop etc. !!

heartbeat,sorry I was offended by ur first post,BUT window tinting is much more minor than large tires or lift,,,, my car didn’t pass before I removed it (even though i was told it is legal when I installed it in autozan),,, I am a kuwaiti guy,, and I hold a good position in a hospital,, and the guy rejected my car pass and he asked for my phone # in case he needs wasta,,but still he rejected it, and I accepted it as it is against the rules.. for me , my patients really want to serve me but I never ask for wasta,, and I never use a wasta, it is a deal that I have made with myself. that is my opinion,,

HEY mark,

Without Wasta nothing works in q8. If you want things to get done without wasta just following rules and regulations are enough but just change the tyres. Do not remove the lift because then you know the police men will play you as they usually become uncorporative when you take the car back to stock mode especially when they have seen your papers. P.S. Zains systems are still not functioning. Its been one week.

Whats all this talk about wasta !?, Mark, you obviously did not tell them you are 248amtheBsides guy. 🙂

come on, you should have enough wasta with your blog. A friend has his car 5 years here….. it has never seen the test. It’s perfectly technically fit, but not original. The rules here are so stupid because nobody cares at all 🙂 otherwise people would complain….

nah, don’t use brake on the trail that hard anyway. I rather put my money on other mods before going there.

Night,

Vehicle inspection is a joke. My car dealer friends in Kuwait rent clear glass when they get cars with tinted glass. They basically go to a glass repair shop and replace the tinted glass with clear one and do the inspections then come back and replace the tinted one back.
The inspector who told you to go will put the current tires once you get the approval. The whole thing is a joke and this is why many states in the US don’t require inspection.
Few years ago I bought sedan from the States and took it for the first inspection when it arrived to Kuwait. The inspector spent 15 min going in circles and at the end told me it is rejected because it doesn’t have spare tire!! I came the next day with my brothers Suburban spare tire in the trunk (it won’t even fit!) and they approved it!!

Texan no 40 Like there is no discrimination where you come from you can you bear with that??????

Mark you should find a Wasta and do what No 1 Dave told you to do.
I am not sure about the fact if expat are not allowed to modify their vehicle never heard of it. I could ask a friend if i get an answer i will post it

For all of those who cares and keep asking him to get Wasta .. why don’t you offer him that damn wasta !!

Something like : Mark meet me next Sunday in Hawallay Traffic Department and make sure you got all your new papers ready!

Sorry Bruno !!! But Kuwait is not as corrupt as you might think.
I have seen more and on a much bigger scale corruption then this.
It is though in some certain matters corrupt, and monopoly runs through its equations but not to the extreme extent of a average readers mind..

After all its for the mutual benefits and doing a favor, having a favor done in return…

Mark how long have you been in Kuwait??

lovely !! there are allot of laws that we dont know abt and no one knows abt except the inspectors in the car test, so u guys have to gamble and take ur chances :Pp

ba3deen wasta !! in kuwait ?!!!! naaaaaa there is no such thing !!

5alha 3ala alaah

Atsaw,

Ive lived in Kuwait for 5 years which is long enough to know how corrupt this country is. Every law here is under negotiation with enough money and wasta. Ive seen thieves (that have stolen as much as 90,000 KD) get out of jail in 24hrs on wasta and drug dealers get out in under a month.

Supposedly Kuwait is a strict Muslim country but really its full of hypocrites with fully stocked bars of liquor in their homes and chinese prostitutes on speed dial.

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