A little help required please!

Fourwheeltravel,
Don't feel to bad, I'm an Australian citizen living in WA, I bought a RRS in NSW, it was impossible for me to legally drive from NSW to WA. I tried my best, the dealer I bought from couldn't help me, and they tried quite hard. Once I left NSW I was not legal on three levels, even in NSW I wasn't legal on two. It was only by the dealer accidentally forgetting to take the plates off I managed the drive without getting pulled up.
Once back in WA I could legally get a permit to drive to the testing station to get the vehicle over the pits and registered.
I insured the vehicle in NSW on NSW plates with me as the owner, had push come to shove I'm not sure how insured I actually was.
What you could try is get the vehicle to WA (somehow) after you've sold your vehicle to a local resident, take it over the pits, you only have to do this once in WA as long as you don't do anything daft to yoir truck or act like an idiot, register the vehicle and then borrow the vehicle off the person you sold it to for the duration of your visit, then buy it back off them when you decide to leave and stick your own rego plates and licence sticker when you get back home. If you sell it cheap enough both ways the stamp duty would be minimal.
Ludicrous I know, however the licencing laws and rules between states are ridiculous, the problem is everybody wants a buck or two.
I wish you the best of luck.

Surely the fact you are on a carnet should mean that you do not have to register here. Unless of course you are planning on staying.

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Originally Posted by Leyland1980

Surely the fact you are on a carnet should mean that you do not have to register here. Unless of course you are planning on staying.

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No... The Carnet is a customs/duty thing.

There is still a registration process to use it on the road, which as long as the car is legal for use in the originating country, this is merely a formality.

M

Get a QLD address and register it there, put QLD plates on it and you wont have to get it retested (MOT) ever again. You could always do the "sell" the vehicle thing as Nomad9 suggested and "borrow" it for the duration of the trip. The people at the motor registry offices dont give a rats how much you put down for sales value (most wouldnt know what the cars worth anyway)

Hi Richard
I am also looking for advice but from you this time if I may.
Will be driving a 90 puma from Singapore to london shortly, and cannot sort out insurance for various countries. Can you please tell me what you did ?
Thanks
RayQUOTE=fourwheeltravel;1870632]Hey guys, I come here on bended knee asking for some advise about driving my temporarily imported defender 110 in Australia, as far as I can make out from the minefield of legislation and bureaucracy it's bloody difficult if not that then really confusing!

Two friends and I temporarily imported two defender 110's into Australia after touriwng Europe, Central Asia, Mongolia and Russia needless to say the most confusing country to drive in so far has been Australia, each state/territory has different rules and regs as to the eligibility of driving a temporarily imported vehicles and I have got myself really confused as to what documents I need to drive legally.

We shipped to Sydney and cleared AQIS with minor hiccups and a hefty cleaning bill as the Australian/Russian standards of cleaning a vehicle don't quite match up. We purchased a three month Compulsory Third Party insurance certificate and made a B-Line for Melbourne to meet up with family and a couch we could sleep on. On the way we were stopped twice by the police for driving an unregistered vehicle and in Victoria we were issued with a hefty $700 fine (which we are contesting). A couple of days later I found Marcus through this website who allowed us to park our rig out of the city in the safety of his home in Warragul whilst we work in Melbourne to pay back various family members for what has turned out to be a very expensive trip. and here we are approaching three months in Australia and with our current CTP insurance about to expire I wanted some tips or anybody's experience on the best insurers for this type of vehicle.

Further to my first request for help I would like any information/ help on the different rules required to drive the cars through all the territories (which I intend to do!)

Perhaps we can take the information compiled in this thread and make a guide for fellow would-be adventurers.

Thanks in advance,
Richard

PS. Not sure if this thread is in the right place :S[/QUOTE]