Member - Tony G (ACT) posted:

Well here's anotherone for you.

DX Patrol classed as a Van; Rego and 3rd party- $1897.40

Claim back from NRMA; 3rd party insurer- $1157.55

So cost the same as other 4WD but with the stuffing around to claim back the difference.

Gu_Patrol posted:

Tony G if your DX Patrol is classed as a van then you could be paying too much for your rego, it should be classed as a wagon in SA it's only $1274 a year for my 4.2 GU with 3rd party Ins

Aston posted:

Thanks Wayne,

You've just answered my problem, as we will be away when the rego falls due.

It also shows that those states that don't require an inspection certificate for road worthiness are allowing vehicles to be registered which leaves it open to abuse.(endangering everyone)

Cheers Aston

Christopher from Suzuki 4WD Club of Victoria posted:

Ok ... but I just bought a car from NSW that had its inspection a week ago and passed but it failed in Vic this week. So how good is your system?

Christopher from Suzuki 4WD Club of Victoria posted:

Oh yeah... same thing happened with another vehicle I bought up there a couple of years back. I reckon a slab would get you a pink slip in NSW. ;-)

Member - Tony G (ACT) posted:

GU_ Patrol, in the ACT the DX is classed as a Van, due to the import quota being reached with Wgn's, Nissan then imported the DX as a van. Fitted it with a back seat, but still sold it as a Van.

No end of calls to ACT Rego will change their mind, as they say it is a Third Party Insurer's idea, namelly NRMA.

So around goes the merry go round every year to recover the exta dollars.

Truckster (Vic) posted:

Gee Christo, a slab would get you a pinkslip for 3 years running!

Wayne (NSW) posted:

Way too much time on your hands Wolfie..

Wayne

Max - Sydney posted:

No - but if you park too long in the wrong place, you get a bluey from a Brown Bomber. But that's not a blue slip.

Very colourful, but so's the language when we compareRego costs with other states!

Member - Doug T (QLD) posted:

Hmmmm glad my rego is in Qld troopie classed as a van $668

Dusty the Forman

Browser posted:

I believe the law in Victoria allows to pay your registration up to three months after the due date and it is still registered under the old registration details. Don't know however whether it is legal to drive between the expiry date and the actual payment???

Browser

howie posted:

probably why we have so many 'death traps' on the road here in w.a. and in queensland.
so long as you pay your rego in w.a. you can keep an un-serviced, rotting,brakeless,bald tyre heap on the road. which is good for us(?), so long as one doesn't hit you head on.
i'd vote for a yearly inspection of vital safety items on every car so long as the fee was reasonable.

Wayne (NSW) posted:

George,

For the amount of time I will be spending in other states this year I feel I should share my rego payment around.

The two months that I will spend in WA should get 1/6, SA=1/6, Vic=1/6, Qld and NT=1/26 and the rest to NSW.

Wayne

glenno(qld) posted:

Or if you had a boat trailer and camper trailer just use the one rego . Place it on the one that you are towing .

Pajman Pete (SA) posted:

I had a mate in Canberra that used to drive a very distinctive Blue Morris 1800 rustheap. Heater was controlled by an alligator clip on a loose bit of electric string. Just clip to someting metal on tha dash and the fan started. No mirrors (internal or external), little brakes, rust everywhere and one dead headlight. Pile of bits in the passanger footwell that had just dropped off.

At inspection time, which back then was only over the govenrment pits, his wife used to load up the three toddlers and line up (usually for a couple of hours). Just as she came up to the inspection point she smacks the kids and started up her own waterworks. "Please inspector, can we get this over quickly, sob, sob ..."

Worked every year! One year our boss went over the pits 3 cars behind her in his brand new crummydore and was defected!