Rego in Victoria

[Mr Parts]

Why fuck with it to save a buck?

Its a good idea like shoplifting is.

OP hasnt really said just how much time he is spending in melbourne at all still, just that he will be home from melb for a week from perth. I gather that as a week a month. thats 12 weeks a year, 12x7days = 84 days.

My point, that obviously went over your head , and if you cant read, my post clearly said "if you are only going to drive it 90 days a year then its fine." is, If its less than 90 days, then there is no law that says a club rego car HAS to be driven to events or only on weekends or between a certain period of time anymore, or for only some specific purpose. So if he IS going to only be in melbourne for 90 days or less a year, then it is still a very valid idea, and isnt breaking any club or vic roads laws at all.

[nastysven]

nah, you get a roady when you reg the car and that's it, no regular inspections.
you don't need separate compulsory 3rd party as far as i know i've never paid for it.. i've just always had comprehensive insurance.

contact citylink, get an etag. your credit card can be linked to it so any use of tollways just gets charged to your card. the etag allows you to use any tollway around melbourne. pretty easy system.
if you happen to use a tollway without an etag you can contact them and pay up to 24hr after or something like that.

wat?

[DrNick]

The 3rd party stuff in your Vic rego is ONLY for TAC and nothing to do with CTP 3rd party. If you have no standalone 3rd party and stack into someone's car, house, etc get ready to start paying that out.. Had a few mates learn the hard way about that.

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[nastysven]

I got the impression he was saying he is not paying his CTP (person) because he has comprehensive (3rd party property).

I dont know how you can get out of CTP (person), it is part of your rego cost.

[InsaneAsylum]

what i'm trying to say is I've always had comprehensive insurance and payed my rego, as far as i'm concerned, i don't have to take out another 3rd party insurance policy as my comprehensive policy covers the 3rd party as well.

right?!?

[nastysven]

errr... your comp ins and the ins that make up part of your rego mean you are totally covered.

in NSW where there is no TAC you have to take out a 3rd party person policy with some one like QBE or what ever so you are covered for damage to people.

I thought from your post you were saying you some how avoided the ins part of your rego due to a comprehensive policy, which kinda does not compute in Victoria.

so yeah ya right, but the way you wrote it threw me a little.

[Paddington]

nah, you get a roady when you reg the car and that's it, no regular inspections.
you don't need separate compulsory 3rd party as far as i know i've never paid for it.. i've just always had comprehensive insurance.

TAC insurance is most of the fucking redic rego fee that you pay now in Vic. So if your car is registered and you run into an old lady and smash her into next week, you're covered.
No rego = open slather for them to sue you.

car insurance is what you have bought to get your car fixed if you stack it.

club rego is a great idea. the whole idea of the 90 days of use was so that people could actually drive them outside of club events. It's the insurance side you have to think of, if you've insured your Pontiac for occasional weekend use and then stack it in peak hour on a monday Morning, that's going to look mighty suspect...

[chartreusehj]

theres nothing in the club regulations that limit you to weekend use.

As long as the insurance company is informed of its registration status they should eat dick if you smash it on the way to work.

as far as the logbook goes, Id wager that club registered cars with seperate plates will invite "random" inspection on road by various agencies and if the book aint filled in, thats a paddlin'

[InsaneAsylum]

errr... your comp ins and the ins that make up part of your rego mean you are totally covered.

in NSW where there is no TAC you have to take out a 3rd party person policy with some one like QBE or what ever so you are covered for damage to people.

I thought from your post you were saying you some how avoided the ins part of your rego due to a comprehensive policy, which kinda does not compute in Victoria.

so yeah ya right, but the way you wrote it threw me a little.

no worries, I was starting to think that me and everyone i knew had been missing somthing for the last 30 years

[9triton]

theres nothing in the club regulations that limit you to weekend use.

As long as the insurance company is informed of its registration status they should eat dick if you smash it on the way to work.

as far as the logbook goes, Id wager that club registered cars with seperate plates will invite "random" inspection on road by various agencies and if the book aint filled in, thats a paddlin'

just today got club permit for the 1961 falcon - $64 for 45 days /year - ie 4 days a month avg.
+ if i use that up then can get another 45 days . up to a max of 90days -as has been said .


all clubs have differnt rules re joing and being able to get the permit


the club i am in makes you be a member for 1 year before they sign off your permit - just weeds out all the dicks that want the cheap rego and will never see again /never contribute to the club.

i heard the mustang club of vic has no waiting period and since this revised club scheme has come in - has doubled the number of club permits to over 600 (680?) with the attendant management problems for the club.

anyways if you bring your sixty4 over - look on the vic roads website for an 'approved club', ring em up and see what they will do for you .

to get the permit offf vic roads you get an RWC as part of the approval for permit ( or have a club checker check your car and then sign it off - but some clubs are changing this as there is a bigger legal responsibility now with the changed scheme - and just tell you to get an RWC).


the ' hearsay' is that now the cops can pull you over and defect you (could NOT before when permit system was different) AND if you havent signed the log book could theoretically give you and ureg /uninsured fine - $1000 odd.

oh and if you dont keep as a payed up club member again permit is invalid and club has duty to inform vic roads

be interesting to see if a few test cases come up

[9triton]

another thing :

victoria is 25 years old to get a club permit ( other states are 30 years) and you can have mods (unlike SA)

so anything 1986 and before - Yay XE falcons

[Matty]

btw people on here seem to be confusing Compulsory Third Party insurance, which is included in your rego and covers personal injury to third parties (ie injury to humans only), with Third Party Property insurance which protects you when you are quietly drag racing your pickup and run into a Rolls backing out of its driveway.
Legally you MUST have the latter, but you need to organise on your own with an insurance company.

[MRMOPARMAN]

theres nothing in the club regulations that limit you to weekend use.

As long as the insurance company is informed of its registration status they should eat dick if you smash it on the way to work.

as far as the logbook goes, Id wager that club registered cars with seperate plates will invite "random" inspection on road by various agencies and if the book aint filled in, thats a paddlin'

finally some sense in this thread.

i cant find anywhere on the vicroads website that says you cant use a historic reg'd car for whatever.. as long as you dont go over your 45/90 day permit allocation.
ive been driving my 1974 corolla to trade school most wednesdays no worries. and im on the verge of driving it 130km each day to work as i havent replaced my daily driver yet.

im insured with shannons, and when i took a policy with them i told them i was on a 90day historic permit, they just about orgasamed over the club permit and insured my car for double (imho) its worth. didnt need to tell them estimated km or anything.

the main problem will be getting the club to sign off on a modified car. vicroads/coppers have been cracking down apparently.

giggle gas: id be cautious driving an excessivly lowered car in melb. depending where you are you will get it beached (eg bell st maccas drive through) and the cops target lowered cars all the time. they usually target ricers but you never know

[9triton]

btw people on here seem to be confusing Compulsory Third Party insurance, which is included in your rego and covers personal injury to third parties (ie injury to humans only), with Third Party Property insurance which protects you when you are quietly drag racing your pickup and run into a Rolls backing out of its driveway.
Legally you MUST have the latter, but you need to organise on your own with an insurance company.

AFAIK - you dont need third party PROPERTY insurance to legally drive.

may be stupid not to have but its not a requirement to drive

you do need third party PERSONAL insurance -ie TAC /CTP etc- in fact you cant get rego without it (ie NSW /QLD)

[9triton]

finally some sense in this thread.

i cant find anywhere on the vicroads website that says you cant use a historic reg'd car for whatever


the main problem will be getting the club to sign off on a modified car. vicroads/coppers have been cracking down apparently.

the club permit says you
' cant carry goods or for hire /reward'

which i take to mean delivery van etc fior yor shop and weddings car hire/taxi etc

be inetresting to see what they say if you have a ute on historic plates with load for the tip....

our club reckons they will alow a modified car on permit provided an engineering cert is there- but as soon as you tub it - it has to beocme street rod rego/permit (ie SR plates in VIC)