GB 7258—200×
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GB 7258—200×
Content
Preface
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Referenced Specification Documents
3 Terms and Definitions
4 Whole Vehicle
5 Engine
6 Steering System
7 Braking System
8 Lighting, Signal Device and Other Electric Equipment
9 Driving System
10 Transmission System
11 Body
12 Safety and Protection Devices
13 Additional Requirement for Fire Engines, Ambulances, Engineering Rescue Vehicles and Police Cars
14 Environment Protection Requirement for Motor Vehicles
Appendix A （specification appendix） Speedometer Indicating Error Test Method
Appendix B （specification appendix） Turning Wheel’s Side Slip Value Test Method
Appendix C （specification appendix） Braking Performance Test Method
Appendix D （specification appendix） Test Method of Headlamp Beam Luminating Position.
Appendix E （specification appendix） Air Tightness Test Method
Appendix F （specification appendix）Test Method of Noise near Driver’s Ears
Appendix G （information appendix） Corresponding Table of Safety Specifications for Four Types of Power Driven Vehicles
Reference Documents
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Preface
The appendices of this standard are recommendable recommended and other contents are mandatory.
This standard supersedes GB7258—1997 “Safety specifications for power driven vehicles operating on roads”.
In Comparison with GB7258—1997, the main changes are:
1) Clause 3, Terms and Definitions, is added, the concepts of Centre Axle Trailer, Passenger/Car Trailer Combination, Electric Vehicle etc are redefined., Three Wheel Agricultural Transport Vehicle is renamed as Three Wheel Vehicle., Four Wheel Agricultural Transport Vehicle is renamed as Low-Speed Goods Vehicle, Agricultural Transport Vehicle is classified as a type of power driven vehicle, and Transport Tractor is renamed as Transportation Tractor Combinations,.AThe trailer towed by tractor is classified as a vehicle allowing allowed to engage in road transportation.
2) In 4.1 of Complete Vehicle Marking, a) the requirement of “The vehicle type should be marked on the exterior of the vehicle body, which can be easily seen” in 3.1.1 of GB7258—1997 has been removed; b) the items, which should be marked on the nameplate for all types of power driven vehicles operating on roads, are detailed and also it’s is made clear that these items should have Chinese characters and the soft nameplates conforming to the specification could be used; c) It’ is made clear that all road vehicles, motorcycles, mopeds and semi trailers should have a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) and once being marked, they are not allowed to be modified or changed (4.1.3); d) the requirements on easy rubbing of the engine number and product serial number in 3.1.3 of GB7258—1997 have been removed; e) the symbol requirement for carrying hazardous goods road transport vehicle are is added (4.1.5).
3) The requirement for the trailer’s axle load and mass parameters for vehicles, vehicle combinations and trailers are added in 4.4 Vehicle Axle Load and Mass Parameters.
4) The audit requirement of the vehicle seating number or passenger number are modified and detailed in 4.5 Load Check.
5) Any warning characters on the motor vehicles should also have be in Chinese,” is added in 4.8 Graphic and Character Marking.
6) The requirement to have ABS for some types of heavy duty vehicles and trailers is added in 7.12 Brake Warning Devices. In Brake Warning Devices, it stipulates that the vehicles having with hydraulic braking systems are required to have a warning device for hydraulic system failing.
7) Mean Fully Developed Deceleration (MFDD) is added in 7.13 Road Braking Performance Test, to test the braking performance of trithree-wheel vehicles and low speed vehicles;.Tthe rear axle braking force requirement for passenger cars and goods vehicles with a gross mass less than 3500kg and the whole vehicle braking force requirement for trithree-wheel vehicles as well as the sepcialspecial requirement of using plate braking force tester for passenger car testing are have been added in 7.14 Braking Force Tester.
8) The full beam intensity of some vehicles’ headlamps has been adequately raised in 8.4.6 Intensity of Full Beam; the requirement for luminating height and horizontal position of dipped headlight dip and full beam headlights has been adjusted in 8.4.7 Requirement for Light Beam Position.
9) Driving recorder installation requirement for some vehicles are is added in 8.5 Other Electric Equipment and Instruments.
10) The worn-out surface worn-out indication requirement for passenger car’s tyres (9.1.8), wheel’s balance requirement for some vehicles (9.4), chassis technical requirement (9.8) and spare tyre’s difference with to other tyres are have been added in 9 Driving System.
11) Special requirements for speed limited vehicles is are added in 10.5 Special Requirement for Vehicles with Speed Limiters.
12) Further descriptions are given on all types of safety glass and their suitability in 11.6 Doors and Windows and 11.6.3; “For city public buses operating on special bus lanes on the main roads, they can have passenger doors on the left side of the vehicles due to the locations of the bus stops but no doors are allowed at on the right side for this type of vehicles.” is added in 11.6.5.
13) 12.1 All seats of passenger cars (except the foldable seats on the third row or the row afterwards) should have safety belts; 12.8 Safety Protection of Special Gaseous Fuel Device; 12.12 Motor vehicles (excluding trithree-wheel vehicles) should be equipped with a warning triangle” are specified in 12 Safety and Protection Devices.
14) The noise control requirement outside the vehicles is added in 14 Environment Protection Requirement for Motor Vehicles
15) The appendices have specified the test methods and equipment for safety technical tests motor vehicle’s safety technical tests; the braking performance for goods vehicles and trailers with full load/empty load ratio higher than 2.0, it’ is better to have the braking test with additional load (or full load).
The transition time requirement for implementing this standard:
1) The following requirement should enter into force for newly registered vehicles 7 months from the issuing date of this standard: 4.8.3. All warning descriptions on motor vehicles should have corresponding Chinese; 7.2.11 Some vehicles are required to have an antilock brake mechanismsystem; 7.12.2 on hydraulic braking fail warning requirement; 8.2.5 Motor vehicles should have reflectors. Trailers and motor vehicles 6 m to 10 m long should have side reflectors and side marker lamps; 8.2.7 requirement of body reflecting marking for some vehicle’s body reflecting marks; 8.5.5 requirement for long journey coaches and sightseeing buses longer than 9 m; 9.1.8 requirement for worn-out indication on passenger car’s tyres worn-out indication; 10.5 special requirement for speed limited vehicles; 11.2 requirement of for reminding description near tipping operation mechanism for vehicles with tip cabs; 12.12 requirement for motor vehicles (excluding tri-wheelthree-wheel vehicles) to be equippeding with warning triangles.
2) The following requirement should enter come into force for new production vehicles 13 months from the issuing date of this standard: 7.12.4 requirement on for warning of failure of antilock braking fail warning; 12.1.1 “all seats of passenger cars (except the foldable seats on the third row or the row afterwards) should have safety belts” for vehicles with seats less than 5 seats; 12.1.1 For longer journey coaches and sightseeing buses, the driver’s seat, the seat set in front and the seats in front, which can not be protected by the protection rails should have seat belts.
3) 3. 4.1.2 requirement for all names on the product nameplate item to be inwith Chinese should enter into force for newly imported vehicles 19 months from the issuing date of this standard.
4) 4. 12.1.1 “all seats of passenger cars (except the foldable seats on the third row or the row afterwards) should have safety belts” for vehicles with seats less than 5 seats, should enter into force for new production vehicles 19 months from the issuing date of this standard.
5) 5. 7.1.2 requirement for motor vehicles having emergency braking should enter into force for low speed goods vehicles 25 months from the issuing date of this standard.
6) The implementingation date of 4.1.2 and 4.1.3 on the motor vehicle’s VIN marking requirement for motor vehicles, for tri-wheelthree-wheel vehicles and low speed goods vehicles will be stipulated separately. Before the date is given, the product (whole vehicle) serial number (4.1.2) should be marked, the vehicle type and product serial number (4.1.3) should be engraved.
7) The implementationing date for 8.5.5 on installing vehicle driving recorders should be carried out in line with the relevant legislations.
The Appendices A, B, C, D, E, and F are specification appendices of this standard, Appendix G is an information appendix.
This standard is put forward by Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Communication of People’s Republic of China.
This standard comes under Road Traffic Administration Standardization Technical Committee of Ministry of Public Security.
The draft organizations responsible for drafting this standard: Traffic Administration Science Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security, Road Science Research Institute of Ministry of Communication.
The organizations draft participating in the draft organizations: China Automobile Technology Research Centre, Machine Industry Agricultural Transportation Vehicle Development and Research Centre, Tianjin Motorcycle Technology Centre, Vehicle Management Department of Traffic Administration of Tianjin Public Security Bureau, China Inspection Ltd, Luoyang Tractor Research Institute, China Environmental Science Research Institute and Beijing General Public Traffic Company.
Main drafters: Ying Chaoyang, Zhou Tianyou, Geng Lu, Zhang Xiansheng, Wang Yulin, Qin Yulin, He Yong, Wu Wei, Wei Jiawen, Wang Fan, Shang Xiangsheng, Liu Xin, Zhao Jialing, Bao Xiaofeng, Li Aimin, Zhan Jiangyun.
The previous standards superseded by this standard are:
——GB7258—87, GB7258—1997。
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Introduction
The national standard “Safety Specifications for Power Driven Vehicles Operating on Roads” (abbreviated as “GB7258” bellow) is the most basic technical legislation for motor vehicle’s safety technical administration in our country, it’sit is also one of the main technical grounds on new vehicle registrations and regular vehicle regular inspections, accident investigations etc by the traffic administrations of the public security organizations. Meanwhile, it’sit is also one of most important technical grounds for our country’s new vehicle type mandatory ratification mandatory tests, new vehicle final production tests and import motor vehicle inspections.
Since the implementation of GB7258-1997 from 1st January 1998 countrywide, it has made a great contribution to reinforcing motor vehicle’s safety administration, raising motor vehicle’s safety levels and ensuring road traffic safety. However, accompanying our national economy’s continuous quick rapid development, the (number of?) motor vehicles (especially private cars) in our country are is increasing rapidly, 4 indexes of the road traffic accidents are rising annually, and the road traffic safety situation is very serious/becoming a major issue. Therefore, based on the technical level of our country’s automobile manufacturing industry and the reality of continual upgrading of the road grades, in order to raise motor vehicle’s technical safety requirements, it’sit is necessary to and timely to revise GB7258.
Based on “Road Traffic Safety Regulation of People’s Republic of China” and the real situation on our country’s motor vehicle safety administration, the main principles in GB7258’s revisions are:
1) Replace the name of “Agricultural Transportation Vehicle” and include it in the “Motor Vehicle” range for better administration;
2) Increase the passenger car’s safety requirements adequately. To adapt the current situation of “motor cars come integrating into ordinary families”, allow passenger cars to tow trailers;
3) Increase the safety requirement for large coaches, middle to heavy goods vehicles and high speed vehicles to increase the road traffic safety;
4) Add basic safety requirement for gaseous vehicles, bi-fuel vehicles and dual fuel vehicles to enhance the safety administration for these types of vehicles;
5) According to the vehicle situation and the relevant technical development, simplify the administration levels adequately.
It’sIt is necessary to point out:
1) In view of the new technology’s market development period, it’sit is an international convention to let the technology mature. To avoid unreasonable technical restrictions to the development of electric motor vehicles, the revised GB7258 only defines the concept of electric motor vehicles without giving any specific requirement. During the new vehicle registration and the regular vehicle regular inspection, the special items for electric motor vehicles can be exempted but any newly manufactured electric motor vehicle should conform to the present valid relevant standards and requirements.
2) To meet people’s’ ever increasing life quality demands, the revised GB7258 allows passengers cars to tow trailers but without giving a specific requirement. To guarantee the safety of the passenger car combination’s safety, the our country’s relevant organizations of our country should stipulate a technical standard and administration regulations for passenger car combinations without delay.
3) In view of our country’s motor vehicle gas emission control and noise control standards which are still in a process of being perfectedperfection and a series of standards on vehicle gas emissions are being drafted by our country’s environmental protection departments, the revised GB7258 only gives “motor vehicle’s gas emissions should conform to the relevant regulations” and “motor vehicle’s outside noise level should conform to the relevant regulations”, No standard names and dates are quoted. The vehicle manufacturers, administration organizations and the end users should implement the relevant standards accordingly.
4) The revised GB7258 has not defined the outline size, braking performance, headlight intensity and luminating position etc for wheeled special engineering vehicles. The manufacturers, administration organizations and the end users of wheeled special engineering vehicles should implement the relevant standards accordingly.
5) In view of special shapes and structures, forklift vehiclescars are not suitable as a type of vehicles for driving on road, the revised GB7258 does not apply to fork carslift vehicles. The fork car’slift vehicle technical requirement should conform to relevant regulations.
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GB 7258—200×
Safety specifications for
power driven vehicles operating on roads
1 Scope
This standard specifies the basic requirement and test method concerning the safety and protection devices of the whole vehicle and its main constituents of the motor vehicle. This standard also specifies the environmental requirement for motor vehicles and the supplementary requirement for fire engines, ambulances, engineering wrecking demolition vehicles and police cars.
This standard applies to all motor vehicles on the roads in our country.
2 Referenced Specification Documents
The clauses in the following documents have become the clauses in this standard after being referenced. For the dated reference documents, all later revision sheets (excluding corrections) and revised versions do not apply to this standard; however, it is encouraged to study with all agreed parties if the latest versions of these documents are applicable. For the non-dated reference documents, all latest versions apply to this standard.
GB 1589-2004 Road Vehicle Outline Dimension, Axle Load and Mass Limits
GB/T 3181 Paint Colour Standard
GB 4094 Marking of Steering Controls, Indicators and Signalling Devices of Motor Vehicles
GB 4599 Headlamps Lighting Performance of Motor Vehicles
GB 4785 Installation Rules on Exterior Lighting and Signalling Devices for Motor Vehicles and Trailers
GB 5948 Lighting Requirement of Incandescent Filament Light Source of Headlamps of Motorcycles
GB 8108 Vehicle Electronic Alarm Systems
GB 8410 Interior Decorating Materials bBurning Characteristic of Motor vehicles
GB 9656 Safety Glass of Motor Vehicles
GB 10395.1 General Rules of Part One of Safety Technical Requirement on Agricultural Tractors and Machines
GB 10396 General Rules on Safety Markingss and Hazardous Symbols of Agricultural Tractors, Lawn mowers and Horticultural Machines
GB/T 11381—1989 Test Method of for Bus Roof Static Loading
GB 11567.1 Side Protection Requirement of Motor Vehicles and Trailers
GB 11567.2 Rear Underneath Protection Requirement of Motor Vehicles And Trailers
GB/T 12428 Calculation Method of Bus Loading
GB 13057 Strength of Passenger Seats and Fixtures on Buses
GB 13392 Marking of Road Vehicles Carrying Hazardous Goods
GB/T 13594 Antilock Braking Performance and Test Method of for Motor Vehicles and Trailers
GB 13954 Special Vehicle Indicating Lights
GB 15084 Rear-view Mirror Performance and Installation Requirement of for Motor Vehicles
GB 15365 Marking of Steering Controls, Indicators and Signalling Devices of Motorcycles
GB 16735 Road Vehicles – Vehicle Identification Number（VIN）
GB 17352 Rear-view Mirror and Installation Requirement for Motorcycles and Mopeds
GB/T 17676 Marks Marking of Natural Gas Motor Vehicles and LPG Motor Vehicles
GB 18100 Installation Rules on Lighting and Signal Devices of for Two Wheel Motorcycles and Mopeds
GB/T 18411 Product Nameplate Marking on Road Vehicles
GB 18565 General Requirements and Test Method for Business Vehicles
GB/T 18697—2002 Noise Measurement Method in Vehicle Interior（eqv ISO 5128：1980）
GB/T 19056 Road Vehicle Driving Recorders
GB 19151 Warning Triangles for Motor Vehicles
GB 19152 Headlamp Lighting Performance Requirement for Mopeds
GA 406 Reflectors on Vehicle Body
QC/T 659—2000 Marking ofs for Motor Vehicle Air Conditioning（HFC-134a）
3 Terms and Definitions
The following terms and definitions apply to this standard.
3.1 Power-Driven Vehicle
All power driven or drawn wheel vehicles on roads for passenger and/riding or (and) goods transportation or special work, including motor vehicles, vehicle combinations, transportation tractor combinations, wheeled special engineering vehicles and trailers.