WA, SA and NSW are eliminating rego labels.
I hope they do this in Vic soon.
I hate them, They are obtrusive, and not required.
I get a renewal notice. I pay it, and the car is registered. What has the label got to do with it?
At the moment you get a renewal with a label. You can stick the label on without paying it, so the label is no proof of payment.
What are your thoughts?
yeh scrap them. crap idea. and never colour co-ordinates with my vehicle
Not really a concern to me, I just whack it on and forget it till next year.
Labels were removed as a cost saving measure and because the police do not need them, without consulting the public here in WA.
There is a large and growing movement to have them returned.
People are saying that there would be prepared to pay a few dollars to have a label. I would.
Now when looking at (kicking tyres) or buying a second hand car you can't see if it is registered and for how long without seeing the rego papers,
at the very beginning. That is a real pain.
I want to see the labels returned ASAP. I have the cut out number of an old label on my windscreen as a reminder.
The removal was done by Troy Buswell (of chair sniffing infamy) the Minister for Transport. It was just another one of his stupid decisions. The man
is an idiot. We would be well rid of him.
But because the label is issued without payment, so how is that proof of rego?
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It will make it easier to swap number plates between vehicles.
Number plate recognition technology is very sophisticated so they are no longer necessary. its waste of money having them
If your a mechanic and after working on a customers vehicle you will now need to check if the vehicle is registered before you can take it for a test
drive.
Also you cant just hop into a mates car to pick stuff up from the shops as you cant see if its registered.
They send the renewal notice 2 months before its due knowing you will put it on the fridge, they then hope you forget so they can fine you for driving
unreg, dont think this is a money saving idea, its a money making idea for the government.
only going to make it easier for the shonks
I think it sounds rediculous. In Qld we don't get the label until we pay, no label, no rego.....easy.
As Birch said, it'll make it easy for the crooks
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I find the new labels are really good they come off easily each year I always turn small dog ear in the corner to make it easier, how bad were the old
ones that you had to soak in water and then wipe down to remove the gum behind them otherwise they would craze.
I think this is as sensible as not needing a rego check on new cars for 5 years.
Maybe they want people to buy cars that are unregistered and then get caught driving so that they can be fined.
Steve
Its a con. The pollies say that it saves money. But the cost was already built into the annual registration.
A major downside to this change is that people will be inadvertantly driving cars that are not registered, and that registration includes third party
personal insurance. So there will be accidents, people will be seriously injured, and there will no insurance cover. Imagine that, you get cleaned
up by someone who has forgotten to pay their rego, you have a serious long term disability, and no-one to pay for it. Never, zilch, nada.
All well and good if you manage your own rego, its other people you need to be scared of.
I look at rego labels to find out what year a car was 1st registered; in Vic we do not even have to write the receipt number, so the label is no proof of current registration.
I've already experienced this, SA made the switch on July 1st 2011. My Beetle got one of the very last rego stickers, with expiry 31st June 2012. My other car was registered afterwards and hence has no sticker. I do like not having the sticker on the car, as it gives the windscreen a cleaner look. However, as mentioned the extra effort of checking whether a car is registered or not can be annoying. There is an EzyReg smartphone app for both Android and iPhone which lets you check the make, body style, colour and registration expiry date from the rego number. The same info is available online.
just put it on the quater window, no biggie aha
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I have never ever looked at a rego label before I got in to drive a car, either friends car, loan car, work car, hire car. In fact this year I got in
my car for 2 weeks after rego expiry before I found the renewal notice still in envelope in the spare room in a pile of papers. Its bad enough having
to get to a mechanic for a pink slip let alone having to go to the rta, stand around for an hour waiting for some arsehole rta person to scowl and
carry on like they are doing me a favour swapping several hundred in return for a sticker with a receipt to prove rego. I havent been in for a simple
renewal since you were able to pay online and write your own receipt number on. I dont think it will make much difference to anything and I am happy
not to have to clean the window each year. Actually, if they dont hit my property I dont really care if others drive unreg.
The recognition cameras are awesome and can check thousands of plates an hour. You'll get caught if you regularly use an unreg car. When they first
came into play there were so many unreg cars on the road they were issuing fines all day. If only they had some facial recognition cameras to get all
the unlicenced drivers.
When I got my latest car the rego had expired by a few days. The dealer I got it off gave me a filled out new registration form instead of a transfer
form. The forms are almost identical with the new rego one having more info on it. I couldnt reason with the guy that everything he needed to know was
on the form already filled in. So I had to go away and get my wifes signature on the transfer form, wait in line again. They gave me a label, I walked
out... to find it had the expired date on it. Back in, wait in line again.
Great idea...
How will it make it easier for shonks?
How does a rego sticker tell you if a car is registered, you can still have a sticker and not be registered...
Swapping plates wont be easier, the police use their computer, even the parking rangers use their computer, wrong plates on wrong car will still be
picked up...
Sticker doesnt remind me to pay my rego, most people with multiple cars know when their rego is due, unless your loaded, most people budget for it and
know when its coming...
Anyone who complains about not having rego stickers any more is a whingy old coot.
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OK with plate recognition thing and no sticker, if you say had 2 white beetles apart from someone physically comparing chassis numbers and engine
numbers assigned to that number plate who would know. If they are going to rely on big brother methods that's what might happen.
Steve
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I'm surprised there is so much objection to it, I reckon it's a great idea as the rego stickers now are pretty much redundant anyway.
I've been guilty of not swapping mine on occasion.
Fact is nearly everyone now carries a mobile phone with internet access so it can be checked at anytime.
It just took me less than 30 secs on the RTA website to punch in my plate on:
https://myrta.com/regcheck/pages/content/termsAndConditions.jsf
It tells everything that is on my rego sticker plus more like who my greenslip is with and when it expires, any engineers certs, concessions
etc.....
The stickers are just a nuisance, good riddance I say.
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