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Hi All,

Someone mentioned the change in private plates and what you are allowed to have and I couldn't find anything about this on the dpi website so thought I'd email them..

What I sent...

is it true there will be no more car specs allowed on number plates?

Like engine (RB25DET)or reference to car brands ie FORD or

HSV etc etc????

This is what i got back..

The Department has always restricted the use of words with Makes of

vehicles within the plate number. However from January 2008 the

Department have also restricted the issue of Models of vehicles that do

not have three additional characters with the model characters. The

additional three characters must contain minimum one alpha and number.

Also the additional characters must not be make or model related to a

vehicle

So who can make sense of that?

LOL

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I know you are not allowed anything with GTR in it as Nissan has set of copyright restrictions or something like that.

Mike has battled with them over this and its not possible for him to get what he wants.

Mike, shed some further light on this?

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Hi All,

Someone mentioned the change in private plates and what you are allowed to have and I couldn't find anything about this on the dpi website so thought I'd email them..

What I sent...

is it true there will be no more car specs allowed on number plates?

Like engine (RB25DET)or reference to car brands ie FORD or

HSV etc etc????

This is what i got back..

The Department has always restricted the use of words with Makes of

vehicles within the plate number. However from January 2008 the

Department have also restricted the issue of Models of vehicles that do

not have three additional characters with the model characters. The

additional three characters must contain minimum one alpha and number.

Also the additional characters must not be make or model related to a

vehicle

So who can make sense of that?

LOL

Alrighty then.....

Ok from how I've read it:

RB26 would not be ok

RB26 2JZ would be fine

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^ what he said

My money is on the fact that the licensing dept has seen what has been happening with the auctions of private plates, and are planning a new release of limited editions to make some moolah.

fkrs :D

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Guys,

The reason behind the rule changes, has got to do with IP

and what they believe to be their property.

Nissan and Holden have both filed lawsuits against DPI and in March DPI settled for a sum of close to 2.5Mil

in regards to a claim filed.

NISSAN have claimed IP on:

GTR

35 GTR

GTR 35

R35

Nigel even tried 23 GTR as 23 is Japanese is Ni-San

Fail boat on that one too. DPI was going to take action against Nigel on behalf of NISSAN for the claimed infringement by Nigel.

This has all been worked out now.

But it is only in W.A

As there are already 35 GTR's kicking around with similiar plates as above.

All plates currently out, will not be affected, but new plates will be harder to get through.

Clear as mud

Mike

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I've seen [HOLDEN] before though, guy that owned it also owns a Holden dealership I believe.

Edit: Wtf Bart, that's pretty shit.. Wonder what happened to those who already have [GTS ###] plates then....

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I've seen [HOLDEN] before though, guy that owned it also owns a Holden dealership I believe.

Edit: Wtf Bart, that's pretty shit.. Wonder what happened to those who already have [GTS ###] plates then....

All plates currently out, will not be affected, but new plates will be harder to get through.

Clear as mud

Mike

:banana:

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All plates currently out, will not be affected, but new plates will be harder to get through.

Clear as mud

Mike

If you have good plates out now, you can auction them off for even more now to teh silly people willing to pay! Winnar!

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