It's not free! Unless you have free Internet service. You are paying to do it!
Everyone should do a REVS check before they do anything. No way would I buy a car based on a set of rego papers!
Why do people defend a worse system than we had? Oh it's so stupid. You are paying good money for rego. You get nothing in return now, except to pay more money.
Actually you are paying for that free site. With your tax money.
Last edited by wbute; 30-09-2013 at 11:23 AM.
I see your point, though I'm not defending the way it is now. Just another sign of the times. Things change, not always for the better.Originally Posted by wbute
Nunc est bibendum...
How is it worse than what we had? I've done the same as you and driven around for 2 months before realizing the rego was expired. Difference was, I had the bloody sticker on the windscreen anyway.
As for purchases, I've bought easily 100 cars with rego and never been burned. The new website linked directly into the RMS allows you to check rego expiry with absolute certainty (a sticker can be altered or reprinted).
As for not getting anything for your rego money, you still get to drive on the road. Isn't that the main point?
Maybe I should just tow a trailer around all the time. If its got rego you no longer need to rego your car. That should fool the police cars...
you may be onto something there.....
Vans.... This is the 2nd time round the block, 40 years later! talk about turning back the clock!
Good point Dave ..I sell vs vt vx commodores that I fix up and every second person who buys one is straight off the plane ( Irish or NZ mainly) ... Anyway you NSW guys will see what happens first hand when it happens over there
Last edited by adam perth; 02-10-2013 at 10:37 PM.
It dawned on me that these plate recognition systems don't sound an alert unless a vehicle is unregistered or an owner or regular driver of the particular vehicle is unlicensed or has outstanding warrants. So....in the case of a collector owning a few similar vehicles, they could easily change the plates between vehicles and drive or ride them without being detected, unless pulled over, potentially for quite some time, if they are not an individual who comes under notice of the police. We have three cars we could get away with doing it.
Shhhhhhhh!
Vans.... This is the 2nd time round the block, 40 years later! talk about turning back the clock!
On Friday, one of the guys took the small work truck for a delivery, on his way back he was pull up on the m7 and told the truck was unregistered even though the rego had been paid .the state recovery had made it unregistered because of a unpaid fine. It turns out that the truck was registered in the bosses brother in laws company and it had gone through a speed camera and he had to nominate the driver, the paperwork had been sent in but he was waiting for the return mail, the driver got out of the fine but had to leave it where he got pulled up. He had no reason to question that the rego was not done as him and I had been told a couple of months before that the rego had just been paid. This is another avenue where the no rego sticker don't help but can get the extra revenue for the government.
Great until you have an accident and have no insurance.
It's people who are trying to do the right thing getting caught out that is unfair.
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