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 Pollution Control/ADR's     5/1/06

  The following Australian Design Rules ( ADR) maybe found on your vehicles compliance plate located on the passenger side firewall.
  What do these numbers mean? The Australian Design Rules set out design standards for vehicle safety and emissions.
  Here are some of the rules you might find on the compliance plate.

ADR 1 - Reversing Lamps  (Introduced 1/72)
ADR 2 - Side door latches and hinges  (1/71)
ADR 3 - Seats and seat anchorages     (1/71)
ADR 4 - Seat belts    (1/69)
ADR 4A - Seat belts (1/74)
ADR 4B - Seat belts (4/75)
ADR 4C - Seat belts (4/76)
ADR 5A - Anchorages for seat belts and child restraints (1/69)
ADR 5B - Anchorages for seat belts and child restraints (1/75)
ADR 6 - Direction Indicator lamps (1/73)
ADR 7 - Hydraulic brake hoses (1/70)
ADR 8 - Safety Glazing material (7/71)
ADR 9 - Standard controls for automatic transmissions (1/72)
ADR 10 - Steering column (1/71)
ADR 10A - Steering column (1/73)
ADR 11 - Internal sunvisors (1/72)
ADR 12 - Glare reduction of field of view (1/73)
ADR 13 - Lighting and directional lighting  
ADR 14 - Rear vision mirror (1/72)
ADR 15 - Demisting of windscreen (1/71)
ADR 16 - Windscreen wipers and washers (1/73)
ADR 18 - Instrumentation (1/73)
ADR 20 - Safety rims  (7/70)
ADR 21 - Instrument panel  (padded dash) (1/73)
ADR 22 - Head restraints (1/72)
ADR 22A - Head restraints (1/75)
ADR 23 - Passenger car tyres (1/74)
ADR 24 - Tyre rim selection (1/73)
ADR 25 - Anti theft locks (1/72)
ADR 26 - Engine Emission controls  (1/72)
ADR 27- Engine emissoin controls (1/74)
ADR 28 - Motor vehicle noisie (1/74)

Pollution control ADR's

ADR 26  -   Defines limits of carbon monoxide emissions from passenger car exhausts under idle conditions.
ADR 27  -   Additional to the requirments of ADR26, passenger car derivative engine emissions of carbon monoxide and                                             hydrocarbons.
ADR 27A -  Defines limits of oxides of nitrogen.  Both ADR 27 and 27A limits are in all phases of operation.

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