Buying a car and Van in Vic to bring to WA

Problem with bringing car and van over on permit, it's supposed to be by the most direct route and no touring allowed.
The easiest way is to licence both in Victoria for the shortest term possible (3 Months, if possible} and then take your time coming back to WA. Once in WA you will have to relicense here within 3 months (officially that is, but many leave it till the licence expires)
You will have to have a Vic Address to do this, any friends/relatives in Vic who would allow you to use their address for licencing purposes?

Others will have other ideas. Consider them all and then work out what's the best for you.

Cheers

Disco.

Hi hard yaka, we purchased a van last year from Wodonga.
We asked the dealer to organise a permit, which cost $25 from memory and lasts for a month.
Then we called in at Kambalda on the way home and registered it, the local panel shop was the licensing certification joint.
It worked fine for us.

First to those who have responded I am not saying that any one said anything wrong. Far from it. But . . .

I am sitting here and wondering why you just don't just ask the Vic RTA and start from there. Ask them if there is anything of a temporary nature that may be ebst. And then depending on what they recommend could also ask the SA and WA about it as well.

To me it is so simple and I am surprised why people don't ask them

At least you won't be guided into doing anything illegal. Like using a metes address and stating on the registration application that it is your residential address. That is fraud and making a false statement.

Now listen to the "ah get off it Phil, who cares" mob.

If you are really after the correct and legal way to do it then simply ask the relevant RTAs.

Phil

I agree, if it were me, I would be ringing the licencing center in Perth and also VIC. You will get the correct information from them on what you can and can't do.
If you have time, get them to put their answer in writing.

I would also be contacting my insurance company and explaining it them them, get there answer in writing as well, this way you are covered and have some recourse if something something goes wrong.

Surely the best option is to have the vehicle registered in WA, with all your correct details, right from the get go.

Surely the dealer can arrange this...it may take a little longer to get the paperwork and the plates too and fro.....but it would have to be the best choice.

cheers

A few years back I needed to bring my boat and trailer from where I had it in storage in NSW to WA. As I had been living/working overseas for a few years the rego had expired.

Finally decided it was too hard in NSW to get a permit, SA said if I had a valid WA permit they would accept that and WA gave me a permit from border to home by most direct route.

Decided to take the risk in NSW and got away with it. Was pulled up in outback SA for a RBT and they never even looked at rego.

Yeah insurance is a big one so will go the permit I think I also read somewhere that wa has wiped the stamp duty for caravans but will ring both states tomorrow to clarify it all would be nice to take 3 weeks to casually drive back

I bought a new camper from a dealer in Adelaide.

The dealership registered it in the name of the dealership.

I towed it home to Darwin.

Transferred the registration into my name. Questioned the stamp duty because the camper trailer was less than 4.5 tonnes. The counter staff checked and apologised as no stamp duty was due.

All good, legal and insured for the journey between Adelaide and Darwin including side trips.

As we are talking about a vehicle in Victoria, there seems to be misnomer here that you need to reside where the vehicle is registered. This is incorrect.
The vehicle needs to be registered where it is “garaged”. So the vehicle may be garaged/ stored and registered in Victoria and you may reside and have you licence in another state. This is all perfectly legal.
How am I sure? I currently have 2 vehicles registered in Victoria and have lived interstate for the last 6 years. Every year Vicroads send my rego papers straight to my home address interstate and I pay online. Never been an issue. I also have a Victorian boat licence which only shows an interstate address.
I travel to Victoria often and have had several vehicles registered there, when living elsewhere over the past 22 years and it is never an issue. Some of these vehicles I have driven back to my “home” interstate and simply changed to registration over to that state as soon as I get it there.
I have places that I can leave my vehicles, however in your case if you had no-where, maybe you could book a site at a caravan park where it could stay for a while and be registered there as that’s where it is stored. Go to Vic for a holiday and then at your leisure drive it back home and register it back home as soon as you are back. (Once you are home with an interstate registered vehicle, there is no 3 month grace to change over the rego if you are employed in that state)
Once I did try and bring a new trailer from Victoria back with a permit and was told at the last minute that when using a permit I cannot carry anything in the trailer and they also said I would have to renew the permit as soon I entered each new state! Defeated the purpose really, so be careful if looking at using permits.

Cheers Tony

What was the final outcome?