Transporting Car From Victoria To Queensland

[Lwood]

I have purchased a car in Victoria and am looking to drive it up to Queensland. The only problem with this is that the car is unregistered however, it will have a RWC. I have been given a few options of ways to bring this car back.

1. Get a Unregistered car permit, allowing me to drive back with an unregistered, yet roadworthy car.

2. Pay the seller to register the car again and get the registration swapped into my name, transport/drive the car to QLD. Do a RWC in QLD (non-qld RWCs are not accepted)

- Register the car and pay the usual fees (rego, stamp duty, plates...).

- Hand in the VIC plates to Queensland Transport. They'll issue a receipt. Fill out a refund form (downloadable from the vicroads website), attach the receipt, and send it to vicroads.

- Wait 4 weeks for the cheque.

3. Shipping the car back (expensive).

4 I have heard of someone, somehow registering the car in Queensland, taking down the Queensland plates, putting them on the car then driving it back.

If anyone has done this or has any ideas of what the best course of action is let me know.

[KURAUN]

2 or 3 sound like the best options imo

1 is generally for taking cars to mechanics etc, not interstate

and 4 sounds a little dodgy tbh, don't you need the car to be sighted in QLD for it to be registered too?

[Lwood]

Yeah exactly, my understanding was the car required a Queensland RWC to be registered in Queensland.

[Sunkist]

i would leave it with a friend, fly back.

borrow a friend with a car that has the ability to tow and a car trailor(if not hire one)

pay your friend to drive down(should be cheaper than a towy)

pick up, drive back!

if your really trying to avoid cost that is.

[Johnie]

When i bought a unreg car i just brang my own plates thats also registered to car; same make and model, for example if im buying a r32 skyline ill bring my r33 skyline plates

put it on the car and drove it home and hope not to get pulled over for them to check the vin haha

or

if u want to do the legit way trailer it all the way as above

but since ur getting a vic rwc with the car may aswell use it to rego it here (as u can't use the vic rwc in qld) and drive it back with vic plates and do the transfer to qld plates later

4. Looks like a dodgie way of getting rego as normaly it needs to be inspected but if u got mates willin to do it for you then why not hey?

So i would go with option 2.

I also have sydney buyer coming to pickup my s13 its unregistered but he says hes already doing rego in nsw, he will be bringing the plates down so i guess that would be option 4 lol but idk as long as the car is gone, he already left me a deposit.

Edited September 13, 2012 by Johnie

[aussietroy]

You will get raped driving it unregistered interstate .... also if you go the legit permit way you need 3 (QLD,NSW and VIC) as cops will not accept one from another state (dad got stung taking my 32 from qld into nsw with a qld permit .... no good)

Not to mention you wouldnt be insured ..... in the case of you hitting a roo or something eles

Ideally trailor or not so ideally, courier ..... wouldnt be much more cash then paying petrol and the time/effort if you drove it back