Thread: 11 seater rego

Originally Posted by Mudpiggy

Hahaha, that would be quite a laugh, pulling up in bus stops, and seeing the face of the road officers when they read the rego label.

I have looked for the old documents from when it was last registered, but can't find any. It was last registered in 1999, in my grandfather's name. It was registered in his name since he bought it in 1972. I'll have to ask him if he still has any documents.

I've been on the phone, and researching since about 8:30 this morning, and I'm really feeling tired and frazzled. Every thing I do, I seem to take a step backwards. I now have been told that it has to have seat belts on the two outer front seats (apparently 1961-1972 MUST have these to get a roadworthy now, but don't have to have them for ongoing registration). For a car that was just going to do a couple of trips while I finish off my other project, it sure is costing a lot of time, money and stress.

Sounds like you are being fed BS. Nothing in the rules I have seen force you to retrospectively fit seatbelts. There are however rules on who you can carry in a vahicle without seatbelts.

If you can get a safety certificate, then the person behind the counter at QT will register it - 9 times out of 10 they don't even come and look at the vehicle these days.

Instead of calling the idiots at QT you should be tring to track down a landie-sympathetic mechanic for a safety cert.

Well I finally managed to get my plates today, after much more QLD Transport irritation. For about 2 weeks, I have been trying to find out information on seating capacity etc. They attempted to find prior records of the car, unsuccessfully, and well you know the rest.

Today it took them about 2min to find prior records of the car, which show 3 seat rego (I don't know how, because it never had a capacity on it in the past). This means that without a mod plate, I can only register it for 3. Now because I had the seats in the back, they told me I had to remove them before I could complete the registration, and I couldn't drive it home to get my tools to remove the 2 bolts holding each seat in.

I had to wait for somebody to be able to bring me some spanners, before I could go on. Take out another CTP policy (for different class) etc. etc.
If only QLD Transport could have told me all this two weeks ago, I would have had no problems.

On the bright side, I now have a land rover to drive around in! I'm stoked to finally have found my way to the end of this saga. I might get a mod plate for extra seating in the future, but for now, this should do me just fine. Thanks to everyone for your advice, help and support through this debacle too!

Now, when is the next series rover outing?

Originally Posted by Mudpiggy

Well I finally managed to get my plates today, after much more QLD Transport irritation. For about 2 weeks, I have been trying to find out information on seating capacity etc. They attempted to find prior records of the car, unsuccessfully, and well you know the rest.

Today it took them about 2min to find prior records of the car, which show 3 seat rego (I don't know how, because it never had a capacity on it in the past). This means that without a mod plate, I can only register it for 3. Now because I had the seats in the back, they told me I had to remove them before I could complete the registration, and I couldn't drive it home to get my tools to remove the 2 bolts holding each seat in.

I had to wait for somebody to be able to bring me some spanners, before I could go on. Take out another CTP policy (for different class) etc. etc.
If only QLD Transport could have told me all this two weeks ago, I would have had no problems.

On the bright side, I now have a land rover to drive around in! I'm stoked to finally have found my way to the end of this saga. I might get a mod plate for extra seating in the future, but for now, this should do me just fine. Thanks to everyone for your advice, help and support through this debacle too!

Now, when is the next series rover outing?

Congrats!
Keep an eye on SLOW I would suggest!

Originally Posted by digger

Congrats!
Keep an eye on SLOW I would suggest!

Hahaha, driving in a series, I'm not sure I'm given much of a choice!

Originally Posted by fc110

I don't know if they've closed the loophole, but years ago, if it was registered as a bus then you could stop in bus stops. I would find out how you stand before doing it in each state! Bear in mind also the distinction between bus registration, & paying more CTP because of the extra seating capacity.

I had a dust up with Brisbane City council regarding a parking fine issued for parking in a Loading Zone. My County is complianced as an omnibus and had the normal LR wagon 9 seats. The rules say the seats may be temporarily removed without a mod plate and also that a bus may use a loading zone if carrying goods. My seats have been temporarily removed.

I took a photo of the compliance plate and downloaded the relevant pages of the Transport Regulations. I then went into the BCC offices and did battle. They eventually conceded that the County was a commercial vehicle and was entitled to use a loading zone. I was told that I was stretching the rules to the limit and it was only the compliance plate that turned the decision in my favour.

Series Land Rovers can be registered as a 4 cylinder, 11 seater (that is if you have a 4 cyl.) It is just that transport dept. do not have a classification of 'army troop carrier' so they bung them in as 'mini bus', trouble is that the transport dept. staff don't know their jobs.