Approve for the ITV. We tried to pass the ITV with a major reform (Brembo GT brakes)

Approving an important reform by oneself is the task of Chinese… we have verified it

Although it may seem paradoxical, having much better brakes than the standard ones is illegal...until you pass the ITV

Our Fiat Grande Punto It has already about 13.000 km with the Brembo GT brakes. Recently we measure the wear and we saw that the front pads were at about 50% of their life, while the discs were still going to last almost another 90.000 km at the current rate. Meanwhile, new needs arise...

In January comes the turn of pass the ITV, with which we consider the following options:
– Act crazy and try pass as if it were the car as well as series (unlikely)
– Get into the legal maelstrom and try homologate the car so that no one can ever tell us anything

What a cool mechanic

Surely pass the ITV with the indispensable and necessary Brembo Grand Touring brakes It's possible...after all Abarth SS 180 hp wears very similar ones, but in the long run it is almost certain that at some point it will end up causing us problems, either in fines by some clever agent, problems in future ITV and even legal issues with insurance in case of accident (an expert could argue that the car has been illegally Modified, etc.)

They are similar…but not the same!

So we finally decided homologate the brakes for our car. I know people who have tried this type of procedure and I know that they are very cumbersome and complicated, but we are not discouraged.
To begin with, I approached one ITV to ask what they were going to ask us for process the case. The answer was very negative... little less she told me that if I wanted pass the ITV remove them and put the series, insinuating that later out of the ITV I could circulate as I wanted. NEGATIVE POINT for happiness ITV station. Apart from being a very unprofessional answer, it borders on the reportable.
I insisted, knowing that it is legal make modifications to the car, and I asked him to specify everything I was going to need to legalize the situation. After approximately 35 minutes of waiting, she appeared with a piece of paper on which he wrote down the following for me:

• Favorable report of Fiat about the possibility of mounting the brakes on the car. In the absence of such a report, favorable certificate from a laboratory

• Technical project visa

• assembly certificate by an authorized workshop.

The first step was to contact Brembo to provide us with all possible documentation.
Next I looked for a chartered engineer that could make me a project with visa. It was not difficult to find a colleague willing to do it, but the truth is that we did not know how to approach the creation of the project.

I didn't even bother to ask Fiat a favorable report on the installation of the brakes, since I'm sure he's not going to grant it to me, so I directly looked for a laboratory willing to put the stamp on the corresponding piece of paper, certifying that the car is roadworthy….I guess it goes without saying that I didn't get anything positive out of it.
El workshop assembly certificate It is the simplest, you just have to fill in a standard form.

I love it though look for my life On my own, this time the headaches seemed excessive, so I decided to seek the help of companies that are dedicated to the homologation of reforms in vehicles. I chose Homologastur, for being one of the best known on the internet. I contacted them and they assured me that there should be no problem getting homologate the reform...

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