Buying a car interstate

[UIZ733]

Scenario; Purchasing a late model (less than one year old) registered car from Victoria and registering in Qld.
What are the re-registration procedures when purchasing a vehicle in this manner?
What is required in relation to safety certificate (i.e does the cert. have to be Victorian Qld)?
I know there will be stamp and transfer duty payable.
Regards P

[gibbo301]

Not to sure about that i would ring Queensland Transport 

[Kit_e_kat9]

Not to sure about that i would ring Queensland Transport 

Probably 2 hours faster (minimum) to check the website.

Kit_e

[Big Nath]

Will need to go over the pits to comply the vehicle, checking chassis number and engine number.

then will need a rego style check to ensure all lights/brakes work, pay a few fees then you will be on ya way :-)

Cheers!!

[Hoyks]

It is not possible to register a vehicle to a private interstate address.

You will buy the car in Vic and go into their motor registry, cancel the rego, hand in the plates and pay for a temporary permit to drive from Vic to Qld.

Once home it will be an inspection and go to the motor registry with fist fill of paper and pay them money.



That's the official way .



Alternate is to buy the car, drive home and do all the Qld rego stuff and hand in the plates when you get here.

If you want to stay (probably ) legal and the seller is understanding, just get the receipt post dated so if you do get in trouble you can claim that the car is borrowed until such time that you get home.

[Murray]

Hi UIZ733, I live in Brisbane and bought in Sydney. I drove it home and got a roadworthy and registered it here. Not a drama. The owners knew I was from Brisbane. I flew down Saturday morning drove back and had it registered in Qld on Wednesday. Be sure you get all the transfer papers signed for Victoria.

I got a RWC in Brisbane then I deregistered the car,handed the plates into Qld Transport and got a receipt. I posted the receipt to the previous owners and they got the refund on the NSW rego.
I registered the car in my name on the same day as deregistering it.  That was 3 years ago and I don't remember any specific issues.

A few hidden costs: The plates will have to be returned to the previous owners to hand in and they will get the refund on rego. When you register in Qld they call the transaction "a new client" and you will have to pay a fee of approx $400.

Taking into account the associated costs of buying interstate (the flight down, the drive back, meals and night accommodation, RWC and the Qld Transport new client fee) I was still happy with the purchase.

Cheers
Paul.

[Duchess]

If you buy from a dealer, like I did, once they know you're buying from interstate, they'll just cancel the rego and take the plates off. They also put a permit on the windscreen to show authorities that it was going to be driven out of state. That's what they did to me when I bought the Hilux the other year. All that meant was I had to get it back to NSW to get a blue slip done and registered here.

Upside was I got to drive around on VIC's tollways for free for a couple of days...