Personalized Plates. SA the Nanny State.

[Agile]

What is the situation in the rest of Aus?. Have stumped up $400 for 2 years of personalized Gold on Black slim plates for my Sprint Turbo that read LAST 1. Go down to pick the ****ers up and am told they can not be handed over until they are allocated to a car. What is the go elsewhere.

Mighty ****ed off. First world problem I know

[Vesper Martini]

Same applies everywhere. even for normal plates

Think about the reasons why

[DoubleTrouble]

Don't know the terms & conditions regarding S.A. personalised plates but would have thought you would at least have read them before handing your money over.

Over here in Victoria you order & pay & they will post them out to you once manufactured, don't need to be on car straight away.

[DoubleTrouble]

Originally Posted by Bevsta007

Same applies everywhere. even for normal plates

Think about the reasons why

Wrong, only correct for normal plates.

[Trump]

I used to have a set of custom plates back in the day. I ordered and paid for them online, they were delivered a few days later to the office.

Oh and to the OP, you've spelled Victoria wrong D

[xisled]

Here in Vic when I got my plates, they sent them to me with a letter saying when you want to allocate them to a car given them a call or go to vic roads.

Also no yearly fee here, you purchase them as a once off. When you want to change the car there on, you go to vic roads and pay the $100 or so fee, and they will be allocate them to the next car. Also if you don't have a car to put them on, they can stay in your name until you get a car to put them on.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by xisled

Here in Vic when I got my plates, they sent them to me with a letter saying when you want to allocate them to a car given them a call or go to vic roads.

Also no yearly fee here, you purchase them as a once off. When you want to change the car there on, you go to vic roads and pay the $100 or so fee, and they will be allocate them to the next car. Also if you don't have a car to put them on, they can stay in your name until you get a car to put them on.

Not just in your name, but also in your possession.

[FERG_51]

Originally Posted by Agile

What is the situation in the rest of Aus?. Have stumped up $400 for 2 years of personalized Gold on Black slim plates for my Sprint Turbo that read LAST 1. Go down to pick the ****ers up and am told they can not be handed over until they are allocated to a car. What is the go elsewhere.

Mighty ****ed off. First world problem I know

Its a normal S.A thing, had the same thing with my XR50 was reg with allocated number then transferred to my plate. At least they will be nice and shiny for the new car.

[NTF6]

In the NT they are in your name and in your possession but if you haven't put them on a registered vehicle within 12 months then whatever is on the plate is back up for grabs by someone else.

[JDSOTI]

Hi All,

Same in NSW ordered some personalized plates for my 6SPRINT, can collect them when I know VIN no.. so decided to leave them on hold, till car arrives early July..makes sense you can't just carry spare plates around can you..also have a few plates left for NSW sprint owner specific and will make them available on the other thread once i figure it out..

[STINKY NINJA]

We pay to buy a set of personal plates in wa and never have to pay for the priveledge to own them again,we get a "right to display or trade" certificate which proves you own the plates,nobody can ever have the same plates as you unless you sell them and then you give the new owner the certificate of "right to display or trade" almost like a pink slip of sorts.
If our plates aren't on a car the license centre holds them indefinitely because they basically have control of unused plates,i have old private plates that I don't have on a car and every 12 months the license centre sends me a letter asking me if I want them destroyed because they have to store them lol
I think wa licensing/plate/laws/fines in general are very good compared to other states.

[Agile]

Originally Posted by DoubleTrouble

Don't know the terms & conditions regarding S.A. personalised plates but would have thought you would at least have read them before handing your money over.

Over here in Victoria you order & pay & they will post them out to you once manufactured, don't need to be on car straight away.

Actually that is exactly my beef with the bastards. No where on the website does it say you can't actually pick the things up. I could have had them posted out and it turns out. And what is the problem with me hanging on to them. THEY ARE IN MY NAME!!

[Agile]

Originally Posted by STINKY NINJA

We pay to buy a set of personal plates in wa and never have to pay for the priveledge to own them again,we get a "right to display or trade" certificate which proves you own the plates,nobody can ever have the same plates as you unless you sell them and then you give the new owner the certificate of "right to display or trade" almost like a pink slip of sorts.
If our plates aren't on a car the license centre holds them indefinitely because they basically have control of unused plates,i have old private plates that I don't have on a car and every 12 months the license centre sends me a letter asking me if I want them destroyed because they have to store them lol
I think wa licensing/plate/laws/fines in general are very good compared to other states.

Your damn right there. Gov here in SA have a whole department dedicated to finding new ways to screw every last cent out of us. Bastards

[superfly]

Originally Posted by Bevsta007

Same applies everywhere. even for normal plates

Think about the reasons why

Not in Qld. here you buy the plates outright and keep them forever. They can just sit in a draw somewhere for years and they're still yours.

You can buy them without even having a car.

[Feathers]

Originally Posted by Agile

Your damn right there. Gov here in SA have a whole department dedicated to finding new ways to screw every last cent out of us. Bastards

They can't be anywhere near as bad as RMS in NSW, at screwing people for money.
Never own the plates, you just pay for the right to display them every year. Can be taken off you at any time if someone complains they are offensive.

I pay $440 a year for my custom plates (6 letters), but even the standard combination I wanted to buy for Dad of his 3 initials and 3 numbers is $102 a year extra. I just missed out on ordering them before they brought in that fee. A workmate got his middle name and the year he was born and pays nothing extra for it.

[Rallye Sport]

I'd like to know who deems the plates 'offensive' Here in WA they cancelled all state plates with an F prefix because there too much chance of the F word coming up, yet I see a little MK1 Capri going around with the plates 'CRAPI' I made an application for 'CRAPTINA' and it was accepted, lol, didn't go through with it, just couldn't do it to the old girl...
With most personalised combos taken now they've thought up a new scam, the Prestige series, you get a plaque on the side with a swan logo and the letter 'W' then your combo eg if I wanted RS2000 it would be registered as W RS2000 allowing them to issue all the previous combos over again. All at a cost of roughly two grand a set. People a buying them too...

[TUF_302]

Originally Posted by Loud_Noises

I used to have a set of custom plates back in the day. I ordered and paid for them online, they were delivered a few days later to the office.

Oh and to the OP, you've spelled Victoria wrong D

And they make fun of me for being from tas lol

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by Feathers

They can't be anywhere near as bad as RMS in NSW, at screwing people for money.
Never own the plates, you just pay for the right to display them every year. Can be taken off you at any time if someone complains they are offensive.

I pay $440 a year for my custom plates (6 letters), but even the standard combination I wanted to buy for Dad of his 3 initials and 3 numbers is $102 a year extra. I just missed out on ordering them before they brought in that fee. A workmate got his middle name and the year he was born and pays nothing extra for it.

Damn straight NSW RMS would have to be the worst. One of my cars ran out of rego with personalised plates on it. I rolled up a few weeks later to put the plates on my other car. No sorry cant do that, you need to hand them in, RMS destroy them, then have them remade once I reapply for the plates and pay another 250 bucks. WTF?

I didn't hand them in and the plates now hanging on my wall in the garage for the last 5 years.

[Feathers]

When I bought the BA I wanted to swap my custom plates from my old XD onto the BA, and the standard plates from the BA to the XD for sale.
That was too complicated.
The BA got the custom plates, but the XD had to have new plates issued, and they held the others for me until they could figure it out.
When they finally called and told me I could put the old plates on the XD, it had already been sold.

[STINKY NINJA]

Originally Posted by Feathers

They can't be anywhere near as bad as RMS in NSW, at screwing people for money.
Never own the plates, you just pay for the right to display them every year. Can be taken off you at any time if someone complains they are offensive.

I pay $440 a year for my custom plates (6 letters), but even the standard combination I wanted to buy for Dad of his 3 initials and 3 numbers is $102 a year extra. I just missed out on ordering them before they brought in that fee. A workmate got his middle name and the year he was born and pays nothing extra for it.

Those dirty license bassterds make you pay all that money every year for private plates,that is just so wrong,that is low down and dirty..
Our wa private plates up to 9 letters or numbers are about 600 to 700 outright to buy,no further fees ever.
I have private plates on my g6e with 2 letters two numbers and wa at the end and they were only about $2-250.

[Vesper Martini]

Originally Posted by DoubleTrouble

Wrong, only correct for normal plates.

Take it easy. your previous post suggest you didn't know that either, in the interim I've been in NZ and found you don't have to hand in a personalised plate either.

I'm not sure why the rules are different. They could be stolen/borrowed without the owners knowledge and used for quite some time before anybody notices.

Plates are often stolen for Petrol drive offs or Toll evasion.

[DJM83]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Damn straight NSW RMS would have to be the worst. One of my cars ran out of rego with personalised plates on it. I rolled up a few weeks later to put the plates on my other car. No sorry cant do that, you need to hand them in, RMS destroy them, then have them remade once I reapply for the plates and pay another 250 bucks. WTF?

I didn't hand them in and the plates now hanging on my wall in the garage for the last 5 years.

I still have the plates from TE50 from when i moved to QLD 10 years ago. QLD transport didnt give 2 ***** if i handed em back on not so i kept em.

Moved back to NSW still have my QLD plates in the garage and now paying every year for the same combo in euro form on my car. RMS is retarded.