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| posted on January 25th, 2010 at 11:51 AM |
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QLD rego for a soft top
Hi All,
Bought my soft top bug in Grafton NSW, no rego. Has had NSW rego with the soft top. Does anyone know if to rego in QLD will I need a new engineers
report or can I just get a RWC?
Cheers
Darren
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| posted on January 25th, 2010 at 12:25 PM |
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Do you have the NSW paperwork, and does it say convertible on it ???
If so then I'd just play dumb and get the RWC done and take the whole lot to the registry. My understanding is they're meant to accept re-rego's,
but new rego's would need an engineers cert....and even tho interstate it'd still count as a re-rego.
Oh and make sure you have your CTP sorted before driving it anywhere - just in case....
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| posted on January 25th, 2010 at 12:36 PM |
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Don't have any paperwork for it, just the old plates on there. I was thinking about the rwc and maybe someone doing it just as a sedan etc. Unless
they wont do the roadworthy until engineers report produced. I emailed QLD transport but the reply was a bit all over the shop.
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| posted on January 25th, 2010 at 01:11 PM |
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Well when I got Jezebel re-rego'd, Qld Transport were able to look up my old NSW rego... that's after being unreg for over 5 years.... so they'll
be able to see if it was last registered as a Sedan or a Vert.
I've found e-mailing or even ringing most govt place is useless - always got much better results going in in person - people are just naturally more
helpful face to face.
I reckon take it to get the RWC done and don't even mention the convertible aspect to the guy inspecting it, and he'll either pass it as is or he
won't. My case I had two mod plates for about 8 different codes, but they didn't even take notice of what the codes were until doing up the
paperwork, and NEVER asked for the paperwork on the mods at all !!!
Once you've got RWC take the car to Qld Transport and see how you go... I mean the worst that can happen is they'll say "nope, sorry - you need an
eingineer's cert", and RWC's are good for a month for rego purposes.
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| posted on January 25th, 2010 at 01:33 PM |
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When you say no paperwork what do you mean? No NSW rego papers? No invoice? No Engineers cert etc etc?
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| posted on January 25th, 2010 at 03:02 PM |
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I got a receipt for purchase and receipts for engine and electrical work done late last year. It has been off the road fro about 2-3 years. Just
giving it a tidy up now, about a month off rwc.
I reckon your right, get the inspection, say nothing and then off the QLD transport.
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| posted on January 25th, 2010 at 03:24 PM |
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it took me 8 months of dicking around with a vw sedan with all my paper work and i still had to get a mod plate done so one in nsw and one in qld ya
good luck bud ............................... ull have to get a mod plate 100 %
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| posted on January 25th, 2010 at 04:14 PM |
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I shall have a look over it again and see if there is a mod plate hiding somewhere...
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| posted on January 25th, 2010 at 04:41 PM |
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As long as it was previously registered as a 'Roadster' or a 'Tourer' or a 'Convertible' then the rego number will allow you to re-register it
with the same requirements as any common body car like a 'Sedan', 'Wagon' etc.
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| posted on January 25th, 2010 at 04:51 PM |
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I am pretty sure it would have been in NSW at some time, the job that was done was professional etc, anyone trying to do it themselves as a bodge
would not have done it so well.
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| posted on January 26th, 2010 at 07:20 AM |
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QLD might be a bit more lenient i dunno, but i when i took one of my cars for a blue slip a few years ago it had a QLD blue mod plate fitted but NSW
dont care about past rego if its interstate
they just started from scratch with a new engineers cert if required
any convertable thats outta rego completly here needs a new engineers cert done as they have to test the structural strength of the reinforcing.
most fail cos they werent done proplerly when they were converted back in the 80s when the laws wern't as tough
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