Tikirocker
20th November 2010, 05:55 AM
For what I had, anybody might have thought it was going to be a bit of a nightmare, but yesterday I made it through in the one day and it was all too easy.
You see ... I bought my County a few weeks back in Qld, the owner canceled his rego and handed his plates in and I drove the truck back to NSW on permit. Before getting it home, we took it to an engineer in Northern NSW to get it engineered for NSW. Whilst at the engineers we discovered there was no sign of the chassis number on the chassis since the chassis had been gal'd. At this point all three parties looked at each other and exchanged a few dodgy concerned glances ....
Not to be deterred, I decided to take a punt and proceed with the purchase of the vehicle hoping that things would be ok when it came time to sorting out blue slip with the NSW authorities ( Was I mad? ). It was suggested to me by various parties along the way that the best way to solve the riddle of the missing chassis numbers was a DIY effort ... but I was not comfortable with that option and I decided to do the right thing. I had concerns though and I rang LVS in Silverdale and spoke to the boys there ... they were immediately sympathetic and had gone through the same thing many times with other owners vehicles. I was assured that getting a Police Number was the way to go and it would all work out fine.
With that assurance in the back of my mind, I did as many little jobs on the vehicle as I could to get it ready for Blue Slip and took it down to Hicks in Lithgow at 8am yesterday morning. As soon as the bloke who was doing the inspection realized my situation, his first words were ... "Yuck ..." ... now I was a bit concerned again. He kept muttering "Yuck ..." quite a few times as he started to go through all my paper work. I had everything though, all papers, previous owners record of rego in QLD, receipt of purchase, all prior engineering papers including the updated NSW one etc, etc, etc .... to be plain, I was air tight on paperwork, backed up on floppy!
He went through the procedure of break testing, getting the old girl on the hoist ... went through it with a fine toothed comb and after 1.5 hours handed me a bunch of papers to take to Bathurst Crime Scene for their V-Check. The truck got right through but for a bad earth on the headlight ( I knew what that was ... perished connector ) and a small gas leak from the engine bay. I was starting feel a small ray of hope ...
I got home and called Bathurst Crime Scene to make an appointment and was told there was nobody there to inspect my vehicle and I might be lucky sometime next week. When I asked if anything might be done "today" he said about 99% chance nothing would happen but he'd get them to contact me. Twenty mins later I get a phone call and it turns out there was one person on the job at BCS and I drove my truck up to Bathurst to get the inspection. Met the female Constable at the station ... drove the truck round the back and she went over the vehicle ... took pics, asked me a bunch of questions. I gave her all my paperwork ... she determined the vehicle was legit and then the coup de grace!
She said ... "Ok, we'll just assign a new number to the chassis .... " and I asked the question. Can I have the VIN numbers already original to the vehicle and located on the 3 engine plates stamped on the chassis rather than having a NEW number assigned? She said that was fine and that was perfect because that meant that my NSW Engineers report would now match up with everything else and didn't require amending! See, if they assigned me a new number I would have had to have had the NSW Engineer reprint and amend his report of my vehicle to show the new chassis number but this way everything now matched up perfectly.
I said goodbye to the nice Constable and thanked her for her time, drove the truck back to Hicks where we stamped the VIN number on the chassis - I left it with them to have the two small jobs sorted out and by 3.30pm yesterday afternoon I was blue slipped, chassis number legit and I can register the truck on Monday without a hitch. Could not have been easier! :)
I have read so many stories about my type of situation being a nightmare in NSW that I thought I would post up a success story to give heart to anybody else in my position needing assurance in future. ;)
Bring on Monday ....
Cheers, Simon.
You see ... I bought my County a few weeks back in Qld, the owner canceled his rego and handed his plates in and I drove the truck back to NSW on permit. Before getting it home, we took it to an engineer in Northern NSW to get it engineered for NSW. Whilst at the engineers we discovered there was no sign of the chassis number on the chassis since the chassis had been gal'd. At this point all three parties looked at each other and exchanged a few dodgy concerned glances ....
Not to be deterred, I decided to take a punt and proceed with the purchase of the vehicle hoping that things would be ok when it came time to sorting out blue slip with the NSW authorities ( Was I mad? ). It was suggested to me by various parties along the way that the best way to solve the riddle of the missing chassis numbers was a DIY effort ... but I was not comfortable with that option and I decided to do the right thing. I had concerns though and I rang LVS in Silverdale and spoke to the boys there ... they were immediately sympathetic and had gone through the same thing many times with other owners vehicles. I was assured that getting a Police Number was the way to go and it would all work out fine.
With that assurance in the back of my mind, I did as many little jobs on the vehicle as I could to get it ready for Blue Slip and took it down to Hicks in Lithgow at 8am yesterday morning. As soon as the bloke who was doing the inspection realized my situation, his first words were ... "Yuck ..." ... now I was a bit concerned again. He kept muttering "Yuck ..." quite a few times as he started to go through all my paper work. I had everything though, all papers, previous owners record of rego in QLD, receipt of purchase, all prior engineering papers including the updated NSW one etc, etc, etc .... to be plain, I was air tight on paperwork, backed up on floppy!
He went through the procedure of break testing, getting the old girl on the hoist ... went through it with a fine toothed comb and after 1.5 hours handed me a bunch of papers to take to Bathurst Crime Scene for their V-Check. The truck got right through but for a bad earth on the headlight ( I knew what that was ... perished connector ) and a small gas leak from the engine bay. I was starting feel a small ray of hope ...
I got home and called Bathurst Crime Scene to make an appointment and was told there was nobody there to inspect my vehicle and I might be lucky sometime next week. When I asked if anything might be done "today" he said about 99% chance nothing would happen but he'd get them to contact me. Twenty mins later I get a phone call and it turns out there was one person on the job at BCS and I drove my truck up to Bathurst to get the inspection. Met the female Constable at the station ... drove the truck round the back and she went over the vehicle ... took pics, asked me a bunch of questions. I gave her all my paperwork ... she determined the vehicle was legit and then the coup de grace!
She said ... "Ok, we'll just assign a new number to the chassis .... " and I asked the question. Can I have the VIN numbers already original to the vehicle and located on the 3 engine plates stamped on the chassis rather than having a NEW number assigned? She said that was fine and that was perfect because that meant that my NSW Engineers report would now match up with everything else and didn't require amending! See, if they assigned me a new number I would have had to have had the NSW Engineer reprint and amend his report of my vehicle to show the new chassis number but this way everything now matched up perfectly.
I said goodbye to the nice Constable and thanked her for her time, drove the truck back to Hicks where we stamped the VIN number on the chassis - I left it with them to have the two small jobs sorted out and by 3.30pm yesterday afternoon I was blue slipped, chassis number legit and I can register the truck on Monday without a hitch. Could not have been easier! :)
I have read so many stories about my type of situation being a nightmare in NSW that I thought I would post up a success story to give heart to anybody else in my position needing assurance in future. ;)
Bring on Monday ....
Cheers, Simon.