Registration Questions (vic)

[Legumis]

I'm looking at getting a recently-imported R33 from a dealer in VIC. According to them, the car is complied and has a RWC.

What kind of registration costs am I look at to get this car driving? I've been checking the VICRoads site and have come up with more than enough information to utterly confuse me.

For example, there is a section relating to the Registration of an imported vehicle.

I'm not sure how much of this page, if any, applies to me as it details Import approval and compliance, etc (things that have already been done).

To make things even less clear, the Buying and Selling section indicates that a car can usually only be sold in one of two ways: with an RWC or without an RWC (though the vehicle would have no plates and NOT be registered). Given that the car does have an RWC (for now), is it likely that the car is actually already registered in AU?

If the car IS registered, would that mean a (relatively) simple Vehicle Registration Transfer form need only be completed and the Transfer Fee's paid?

If NOT registered, am I likely to have to go through the full Initial Registration process (appointments, inspections, registrations, Traffic Accident Charges, insurance duty, number plates and stamp duty)?

Any help would be appreciated

[Dicer]

Check under the Fee's section. Use this calculator http://webapps.vicroads.vic.gov.au/vrne/VR...?OpenForm#calc3

Will be at least $1000 (depends on value of your car) and then I believe you need to add stamp duty.

[kakimoto33]

You need a RWC to get the car registered but having a RWC doesn't mean the car is automatically registered. Although a dealer can sell a car without rego or RWC, if they have a RWC then it can either be registered or unregistered, so this car has obviously been complied and had a roadworthy inspection but not been registered yet.

All you need to do is take all of the paperwork from compliance, roadworthy and purchase documents to VicRoads (after making a rego appointment) and it will be a simple 20 minute process to get it on the road. The costs should be around $475 to $580 for the rego itself depending on your postcode, plus a few $$ for licence plate fees, etc (average around $550 all up roughly) and then $8 per $200 (basically 4%) of the cars value for stamp duty.

Assuming the car is $10,000 then it would be roughly $550 for rego costs and $400 for stamp duty ... if the car was $12,000 then it would be around $550 plus $480 ... and so on.

I would have assumed that the dealer selling the car would have arranged rego for you so you could just come and collect the car afterwards, even if they added the costs on top of the price?

[WazR32GTSt]

yeah if you're buying from a dealer use one of the few advantages that they give - get them to do all the paperwork for you!

when i bought my V35 from a dealer i negotiated a price (including rego and stamp duty) they paid all that stuff and i siply picked up the car! they have plates already at the dealer and give you a temporary rego sticker while vicroads will send out the real one once the paperwork has gone through

[Dicer]

The costs should be around $475 to $580 for the rego itself depending on your postcode, plus a few $ for licence plate fees, etc (average around $550 all up roughly) and then $8 per $200 (basically 4%) of the cars value for stamp duty.

Your estimates surprised me, turns out my last post was wrong! The vicroads calculator includes stamp duty so I was adding it twice.

[Legumis]

yeah, the calculated fee I came up with was just under $1200.

Cool, thanks for the input everyone.