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GCM Upgrades - NOW AVAILABLE - $4,990
Discover Our Expertise Certifying Your Vehicle
Omega Vehicle Engineering offers a specialist engineering certification service for GCM upgrades and modifications in, South Australia, and soon Queensland. This service provides you with the compliance paperwork required to get your vehicle legally registered at your increased weight. Additionally this covers your insurance and safety requirements.
WA customers: our application is currently being assessed by the local regulator and we will soon have an update for you.
Don't risk being overweight on the roads!
This is our newest offering, based on our Davis Dam Profile Testing of the 300 Series LandCruiser. A standard GCM upgrade will cost $4,990.
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This Upgrade is for vehicles which already have an upgraded GVM (i.e. suspension already fitted and compliant)
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Option 1: GCM Upgrade takes your vehicle from 6,780 kg to 7,500 kg.
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Option 2: Combined with a BTC Upgrade to 4,000 kg, your new GCM will be 8,000 kg.
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The GCM upgrade process includes the following:
Finite Element Analysis of key vehicle components - Thorough Vehicle Brake and ESC Testing - Davis Dam Profile Testing - Individual Vehicle Compliance Checks
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All modified vehicles are provided with mod decal to be applied to the vehicle.
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WA Specific Approvals
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In May 2024 the WA DoT released new guidelines for GCM Upgrades on Light Vehicles, the document which describes how this process is follwed is called VTB 181A.
Since this date, customers have been approaching Omega Vehicle Engineering with queries regarding GCM increases on their light vehicles. In response to this, Omega has been actively working with a test house in QLD to complete all the required testing for the most common vehicle requests - see below for the status of these:
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VEHICLE {Target GCM} (interested customers) - Status
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300 Series LandCruiser {7.5T} (5+) - Testing Complete, Application Submitted, Draft reviewed, Awaiting Final Approval from DoT
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200 Series LandCruiser {7.5T} (5+) - Testing Complete, Application Submitted, Awaiting Draft review from DoT
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150 Series LandCruiser Prado {7.0T} (1) - Awaiting further interest
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Ford Ranger PXIII {7.0T} (1) - Awaiting further interest
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Nissan Patrol Y62 {7.5T} (1) - Awaiting further interest​​​​​​​
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Last Updated: 31-MAR-25
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