Thread: Vehicle age as regards valuation

I was wondering about something. For valuation purposes, is it always the year of a vehicle’s manufacture that counts, or can it be the year of first registration?

For example a “2006” model is sold new and first registered (and this can be proven) in December 2007. (Up to that time, it hasn’t been driven, except for perhaps a few miles connected with delivery.) When determining its resale value, is that vehicle taken to be now just over two years old, or just over one year old.?

G'day Folks

Pre-compliance plates it was easy to change a vehicles age by just changing a few minor trim details or by hoping t e client was not aware of the minor yearly changes, Series Landrovers were an easy one a Series 2 ran from 1958-1960, so it was sold as a 1960 model, the 2a ran from 61-69 without much change exept the wiper and eletrics, so it was advertised as a 1967,8,9 model, the Volkswagen Beetle year models were dated by the number of peaks onthe castle in the bonnet emblem, Holdens and other Aust cars by the Armourplate glass in the windows, where the . was was the year the glass was made count the dots x the number of windows and the average the dot location, when Compliance plates came in it gave the vehicle an identity, seating, weight, and the ADR which it was built under.

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