Changing Rego- NSW to QLD

[wayneP]

This is for Members Information (or our mates) March 2013; due to sickness/to unemployment can not compare as in NSW home (Bus) registered as business.
Qld must have Gas System Compliance Certificate $106
Certificate of Modification (seating etc must have)
Certificate of Inspection (Misplaced Rec's, so together)$545
Registration (3rd Party included $328.80) ($910)
But in QLD if Senior Citizen (Pensioner) $682
Was told in NSW could not register for Pensioner as it is a heavy vehicle 13.2 GVM,
and could not have personalized plates.
QLD = Pensioner + what plates would you like (and cost)?.
There you go info only, but may help somebody!!!!

[Craig]

some of those costs are only when changing ownership or changing reg from another state. Gas compliance does not have to be done every year. Also my heavy vehicle inspection each year was about $100. I eventually changed reg to Vic. (no annual inspection)

[Pokey]

Also maybe needed a compliance plate for any modifications e.g. new engine. I had to get my bus engineer certified when I changed from NSW to Qld even though the NSW rego was as a motorhome.

[BernieQ2]

I have just been thru all that crap with DMR Qld, what a joke.
Its just a black line on a map. I (mistakenly) thought we all lived in the one country.
Hey pokey how are you going with that crook engine?
Bernie.

[Greynomad]

Bernie,

Don't tell me you've just discovered that we're still six colonies when it comes to vehicle rego rules?!?!?

I found that at age 18 when I tried to reregister my (NSW registered) car in ACT after taking a job there.
Back then, ACT coppers were seconded from NSW force, and sworn in as Special Constables. My cousin was one.
They crawled under, over & inside the car; tested the brakes on a running dynomometer (one wheel had low pressure: fail); examined the windscreen for chips (I had an early laminated screen retrofitted: pass); measured tyre tread depth (pass)... and so on.

Then I came to Vic.
Bloke walked around car, opened the bonnet, closed it again, then wrote out the rego transfer.

A bit different now!

Girt had to go to two different VicRoads offices, after getting a Victorian RWC... (and having rear overhang measured)
NSW Green Slip is not good enough! Never know what those bast@*ds across the border might try to pull!

We won't bother to reregister if we ever move interstate... just use son's Melb address.

[John M]

Bernie,

Don't tell me you've just discovered that we're still six colonies when it comes to vehicle rego rules?!?!?

I found that at age 18 when I tried to reregister my (NSW registered) car in ACT after taking a job there.
Back then, ACT coppers were seconded from NSW force, and sworn in as Special Constables. My cousin was one.
They crawled under, over & inside the car; tested the brakes on a running dynomometer (one wheel had low pressure: fail); examined the windscreen for chips (I had an early laminated screen retrofitted: pass); measured tyre tread depth (pass)... and so on.

Then I came to Vic.
Bloke walked around car, opened the bonnet, closed it again, then wrote out the rego transfer.

A bit different now!

Girt had to go to two different VicRoads offices, after getting a Victorian RWC... (and having rear overhang measured)
NSW Green Slip is not good enough! Never know what those bast@*ds across the border might try to pull!

We won't bother to reregister if we ever move interstate... just use son's Melb address.

A completely different scenario, to what has been described to me by Vic Roads, emailed for instructions, then rang to confirm, need an address where the vehicle is normally garaged, can be any legal address, even a caravan park, however the address cannot be registered as a caravan park, must be a street address. they also require a postal address which can be anywhere, even interstate if you do not have a fixed address.
If the vehicle is registered in your name, you take the plates and the required sum and paperwork, (rego certificate,pension certification proof of address ( rental receipt) etc) to the nearest Registration depot and the whole transaction can be completed, there and then over the counter, note however that ideally the garaging address should be outside the city area to avoid the Rail Tariff imposed.
the major difference other than the cost, is that in Vic you and your partner can each register a vehicle with the pensioner discount, (ie. bus and toad) where as in Qld you can only register one vehicle. I can register all three registrations (Bus, Car and Trailer) for under half of what I pay for one vehicle in Qld. and save $150 a year to get the required roadworthy.