Same forum different vehicle......

[discotwinturbo]

Nick, your car was registered in your name in Vctoria so no insurance problem. We are talking about buying a car, which then needs to be transferred to your name. This is a different issue.

Bob

Different issue as you say Bob, but does Nick have insurance ? From reading the department for transport website in WA, it appears that insurance on interstate vehicles is void in WA unless only here for 3 months or less. Something Nick may need to check out for himself.
Just a thought.
Should be one insurance for the one country....should be one rego too I reckon.
Brett....

[Nick S]

Difference issue as you say Bob, but does Nick have insurance ? From reading the department for transport website in WA, it appears that insurance on interstate vehicles is void in WA unless only here for 3 months or less. Something Nick may need to check out for himself.
Just a thought.
Should be one insurance for the one country....should be one rego too I reckon.
Brett....

Thanks Bob & Brett
back in Vic now so all OK. I agree though that we should have one national insurance and rego system, in fact the whole federated system of Govt with states behaving like little countries is a bit crazy and we end up with three levels of Govt.
Nick

[Nomad9]

Hi People,
When I bought a vehicle in SA, I registered it in my name and paid the stamp duty in SA at a local post office then drove around WA for three months on the SA rego, took the vehicle over the pits and paid the pits fee only and got my WA plates.
When I bought this vehicle in NSW, the yard has got me a five day permit (somehow) and I've insured the vehicle with my insurance company in WA on the NSW plates fully comp. I know about not using the vehicle for business as far as they are concerned I'm driving straight back via Melbourne where I'm going to stay overnight at the outlaws.
When I bought the D3 back I was stopped at Mildura at an RBT cop stop, I showed them my insurance and the receipt for the vehicle, they didn't seem to phased and commented that I was a fair way from home and bid me a fond fair-well.
I'll know better when I get to the yard on Monday. One thing I always do is insure the vehicle fully comp and not rely on the legality of the third party insurance.

[Piddler]

What a load of bureacratic bull****, is there something special about WA

In NSW you can drive for 3mths on interstate rego before you need to change it.

Unbelievable, never heard anything so rediculous

Baz.

Agree same here in Tassie as NSW

[BobD]

Nomad,

I guess you are on your way across the Nullabor or home by now so I hope you are enjoying / have enjoyed the trip. I really enjoyed my three day trip from Sydney to Perth with my new (second hand) D4. I would do it again tomorrow if I had the opportunity.

Bob

[Nomad9]

Hi Bob,
Yeap I'm back, when I went to pick up the vehicle the yard I bought the vehicle from told me they couldn't get a permit because I was a West Australian licensed driver, for once in my life I was special, but for all the wrong reasons. The car is what I have been looking for, and more, even at the right price so there was no way I was walking away and flying back.
Trucking back was an option but like yourself I sort of enjoy the drive, would have been better if my wife had been with me. 4 CD's become pretty monotonous after a while........
I had an uneventful trip back apart from a bit of fun with two eight meter wide houses going through Port Augusta, I got caught at the traffic lights with a traffic escort cop next to me and a fire engine behind me, the trucks were having a lot of trouble negotiating the lights so I was forced to jump a red light to let the fire engine past, only realised when I was in the middle of the junction the traffic lights had those combination cameras on them, became apparent when they started flashing, I doubt there will be any repercussions from this due to the circumstances, oh and it was raining........... But at the time a lot of other stuff goes through your mind.
Thankfully the yard allowed me to keep the plates and the license sticker which doesn't make you look as obvious driving an unplated vehicle. I think I was sort of semi legal in NSW, in Victoria and South Australia I doubt it and in WA I had a moving permit for two days, this is only to move the vehicle to a licencing centre or for repairs, repairs in Eucla I think is stretching this a bit.
I couldn't find a legal way to drive a purchased vehicle in any other state than my own without trucking the vehicle.
When I bought the vehicle in the yard in NSW I also had to sign a declaration that I was buying an unregistered vehicle which I suppose also puts the legality of driving in NSW into question.
What I did do was insure the vehicle with fully comprehensive insurance, the insurance company didn't have any problem doing this, had I had to make a claim and I signed a declaration to say I was knowingly driving an unregistered vehicle I'm sure they would have used this as a "get out of jail free" card.
Well it is all a muted conversation now I'm back safely and hopefully infringement free, to me it seems ridiculous that you can't figure this out in a simple way. I wonder how these camper hire companies go hiring out a NSW registered camper van to a foreigner in WA, it seems to work.........
Anyway finally, the vehicle drove back like a dream, managed 11.1 litres per hundred for the entire trip and managed an average speed of 93.1 klm/hr. The people I dealt with in Kingsgrove were excellent to deal with, the vehicles were well priced, well optioned and the staff were really friendly, I had two problems these were sorted instantly with no question and they sent me out of the door with a full tank of diesel.
Anybody interested they had a very nice 4.4 sport, also a nice 4.2 supercharged Sport and a couple of well priced RR Vogues. I suspect the 4.2 supercharged Sport would have been a wild ride back to Perth, it was tempting..........

[BobD]

Welcome back Nomad. Glad the car lived up to expectations, as did ours. I had my wife and 17 year old son with me on my drive back, which made it like a quick holiday but added greatly to the cost.

At least you have confirmed that it is difficult, if not impossible, to legally drive a vehicle back to WA from Sydney. If I do it again it will be trucked, which is cheaper anyway but nowhere near as much fun.

My dealer did not know anything about licensing problems and we just drove on the NSW plates with a proof of purchase document thinking it was legal until we completed the transfer, as it is if you buy in the same state as you are licensed in.

Bob

[Nomad9]

Hi Bob,
My wife and I have done the trip together and tagged my then 16 year old along for the ride. The legality of the buy has only come to light doing the purchase through a dealer, I've only ever bought privately in the past so ignorance of what was right and wrong could be put down to naivety, saying that being of the age I am I should know better, possibly the same era as yourself.
When I bought in SA I did the transfer and paid my stamp duty in SA at a local post office and then drove around on the SA plates in WA until the rego ran out three months later. I didn't get stopped or commit any offences so I didn't test the system out. I've always had the vehicle insured fully comp, however as mentioned in an earlier post I've never put this to the test thankfully.
I'm booking the vehicle in over the pits this week hopefully and get my own plates back. Then all back to normal.
Like yourself I'm getting to the point that I think trucking the vehicle back is the way to go from a stress point of view, that is unless there is a way to do this without breaking what appears to be a really hard and bureaucratic system to work within. I have no problem buying permits I'm not trying to avoid this, I accept I have to pay something to cover what I do.

Marty