I just saw a car on UK plates

[WeirdNeville]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 23 November 2014 at 06:07

[200bhp]

Presumably the same way the rich arabs take their cars to london for the summer on their home reg plates. I think its hat they call carnet de passage - There was a thread here in the aussie forum a few days back funnily enough.

[james280779]

My lotus is currently on UK plates, My MG was on UK plates for four months.

When you ship a car over and it passes all rego etc - you have to send off for an import VIN plate (not applicable to all catagories) - this can take up to three months. They wont give a local plate until that arrives so they issue a three month temporary rego and you can use your UK plates in the interim.

[ariddell]

In Vic it would have to be either on a carnet, trade plate or on an unregistered vehicle permit which only allows it to be driven for the purposes of obtaining an RWC and registration but not general use. No such thing as 3 month temporary rego issued down here so I think that's an N.T. specific thing.

Have seen a couple of cars around on UK plates here, seems to be a crowd bringing in Maserati coupes and Jag XJSs so quite often see them being driven with UK plates and a trade plate on them.

[james280779]

ariddell said:

In Vic it would have to be either on a carnet, trade plate or on an unregistered vehicle permit which only allows it to be driven for the purposes of obtaining an RWC and registration but not general use. No such thing as 3 month temporary rego issued down here so I think that's an N.T. specific thing.

Have seen a couple of cars around on UK plates here, seems to be a crowd bringing in Maserati coupes and Jag XJSs so quite often see them being driven with UK plates and a trade plate on them.

so how do they get around the VIN plates? They have to be made and issued by Canberra and can only be made when the car has passed all engineering/ state inspections- they will not issue official plates as the VIN plate has to be fitted by the inspecting office. Thats federal law so not governed by state.

[ariddell]

Yep, you can't fully register an import here till the compliance plate/sticker has been produced and attached and there's no temporary registration available till this is done.

Having said that it doesn't take anything like 3 months here, it's generally only about a week for the plate to be sent out once the compliancing VASS engineer has completed the paperwork.

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/Registration/N...

May be 3 months if your car doesn't have the VIN stamped into it already and needs some other type of plate that has to be issued by Canberra, but if it does then the personal import/raws approval plate is just a sticker basically.

Edited by ariddell on Monday 1st July 04:33

[james280779]

ariddell said:

Yep, you can't fully register an import here till the compliance plate/sticker has been produced and attached and there's no temporary registration available till this is done.

Having said that it doesn't take anything like 3 months here, it's generally only about a week for the plate to be sent out once the compliancing VASS engineer has completed the paperwork.

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/Registration/N...

May be 3 months if your car doesn't have the VIN stamped into it already and needs some other type of plate that has to be issued by Canberra, but if it does then the personal import/raws approval plate is just a sticker basically.

Edited by ariddell on Monday 1st July 04:33

Mine was just a sticker- it took about 8 weeks to arrive from Canberra (I presume more checks as I am up North) but I dragged it out to the end of the temporary rego as I was skint and I already had three months paid. Maybe as it takes longer up here thats why they give 3 months temporary.

[rich_99]

I was very surprised when my compliance plate arrived just 11 hours after the paperwork was submitted! Express courier the compliance workshop told me!!!

[Google [bot]]

I just saw a uk reg, Martini liveried, caged Integrale Evo. Looked unreal and certainly not what you expect to see on Parra rd on a Saturday morning.

[PomBstard]

Google [bot] said:

I just saw a uk reg, Martini liveried, caged Integrale Evo. Looked unreal and certainly not what you expect to see on Parra rd on a Saturday morning.

I'll just leave this here

[Google [bot]]

Thanks Lee, I was about to write that I could have sworn it was caged, but that there was more likelihood of me being wrong than 2 similar cars. But the one I saw was definitely LHD.