No rego labels in NSW

[Taily]

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.

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.

[playwme]

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?

[wbute]

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...

[Big Rob]

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.....

[SLR_dave]

I don't know about you but when I buy a registered car I get the current certificate of registration with the previous owners details, signature and .....drumroll....... the registration expiry date.
No rego papers = I pay no rego price.

Stickers or lack thereof won't change people who don't have the common sense to check that one small thing when buying a car.

Sure, of course, but... when implementing legislation or codes of practice, it has long been the better ideal to attempt to protect people who may ignore, or not realise their common sense (or are just innocently ignorant) . This has particularly been the case in motor vehicle trade over recent decades in Australia, it's too easy for people to get burned. I was looking at the topic more from a general community point of veiw than from just us motorheads who should know better.

My reason for continuing to comment on this thread stems from previous work in the steel/car recycling industry, and seeing some of the stuff that goes on with number plate theft, the creative uses a spare set of plates can be used for, and the crap this can cause for all and sundry, so I was just putting my two cents in.

Motor car resale hadn't occurred to me previously, however reading through the thread, it stuck me that it's another good point, without a sticker, the clarity (for a confused or non-discening buyer) is, to my mind, reduced.

But anyway, earlier in this thread I pointed out that a likely outcome of this development is increased number plate theft, thats really why I have a disagreement with it.

[adam perth]

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

[mckackie]

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.

[playwme]

They may have to be extremely similar vehicles.
I know the ACT systems can tell what colour your numberplates are supposed to be and will throw up an alert if it picks up the wrong ones. Plenty of people get their plates remade in plastic with different coloured backgrounds, and you're only supposed to get that done through the RTA. Costs a couple hundr bucks each time which is why people get a singwriter or someone with a vinyl cutter to do it.
I'd be curious to know if they pick up on the car colour as well. Might have to find a copper and ask them.

[Big Rob]

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!

[Monman71]

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.