Interpretation ID: nht73-4.8

DATE: 04/11/73

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; Richard B. Dyson; NHTSA

TO: Fiat Motor Company, Inc.

TITLE: FMVSS INTERPRETATION

TEXT: This is in reply to your letter of February 22, 1973, requesting confirmation of your understanding that automobile manufacturers may continue to use glazing materials manufactured before April 1, 1973, that do not conform to the recent amendment to Standard No. 205, "Glazing Materials", effective on that date, in motor vehicles manufactured after that date.

Standard No. 205, an "equipment standard", applies to glazing materials for use in motor vehicles. It does not apply directly to vehicles in which such materials are used. As a consequence, a vehicle manufacturer may use glazing materials that do not conform to Standard No. 205 as it exists on the date the vehicle is manufactured. The glazing material must, however, conform to the standard as it exists on the date that the material is manufactured.