Zane Vin number anomoly??

Shajota said:
Yeh, don't volunteer any info to the Transport Dept :o

A couple of them had a bit of a chat whether they needed to see the bike, but reckoned the regs weren't clear on that, so just asked me if the numbers on the roadworthy were stamped on the bike!! 
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Ipswich rego office randomly inspect one vehicle out of every ten plates issued unless it is an import and then they need to verify the numbers.
Last two bikes I have registered there they did not even look at the bikes, just grabbed the money and threw me some plates
 
I think in my case they thought they might have had to check all the numbers and make sure it had appropriate plates because for some reason I had no documentation, such as purchase receipts / proof of ownership :o ;)
Just had a roadworthy cert and some friendly chatter :D
 
I have blue slipped a couple of bikes that were out of rego for a while and in both cases the bloody mechanic who the RTA or whatever they're called now, they list these in NSW ,didnt like the way the frame numbers where done so I got sent to the Scientific Coppers as there where called. The trailer trip there took 5 times longer that there look at the bike frame. Nobody cares about 30-year-old bikes but they all cover their arses.
 
I had a similar experience when I tried to register an old Honda 750 K2 that had the frame number ground off. The roadworthy bloke got all excited and called the police on me. The cops turned up and had a look. I was half expecting to be arrested, but they just said I couldn't register it like that. One of the cops said that if it had been a recent bike they'd have taken it and done some forensic investigation. But since it was over 40 years old, they didn't give a shit. They told me I'd have to get another frame for it if I wanted to put it on the road, but I ended up doing my own chemical etching to raise the original number and re-stamp it.
 
This kind of 'optional' bureaucracy gives me the shits.
If the paperwork is needed for good reasons then do it properly, every time, otherwise none of it is worth anything.
And if the paperwork isn't needed, then don't make peoples lives hard!

Sorry. Rant over. I guess I'm just a bit disappointed that I didn't get new jota exhausts for christmas...
;)
 
In reality now that its all outsourced to Mechanics in the industry its easier with this looser system. Back in the day in NSW all you could do was "go over the pits" at the government rego office and they were painfully strict. One dot missing no rego for you just like what is happening to Greg. Penpushers live by The Book
 
redax5 said:
Greg to me you are over complicating the issue,
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That seems to be a re-occurring theme in my life...?.

In 2005 I imported 8 Guzzi's at the same time. When I went to register one of them (can't remember which one) I couldn't as NEVDIS (then DOTARS) had accidentally not entered the import approval and Vin into the database, so the Vin was not downloaded to the various State registration bodies. Queensland Transport could do nothing. I had to go back to DOTARS and get them to rectify the issue. No Vin from NEVDIS, no registration is my understanding.

2 months after the Guzzi's got here, my BMW M3 from the UK arrived before approval had been granted by DOTARS. The freight forwarder in South Hampton shipped it before I gave them the go ahead.... Initial import approval was rejected based on a bureaucrat's mis-interpretation of the legislation. I appealed and got approval to import about an hour before it went to the crusher. Then, to cap it off, Qld customs was changing from paper to computer, and it got lost in the "system" for a couple of weeks. That was when I started smoking again....

I would like to say thanks for the leads and support in this matter. I will find a way through this.

Hope you all have a Merry, Happy, Enjoyable and Safe Christmas and New Year!!

Regards, Greg
 
Hi Greg if that bike was registered in Victoria there is an enthusiasts association that took all of the paper records that Vicroads possessed when they changed over to an electronic database, I don't know the name of this association but they charge a small fee for someone to do a physical search through their files.
Forget about looking up records through any of the registration agencies I made that attempt with Miss Prissey even after I had found the original registration number the answer was still "no records found"
I think Cosi is on the money and one of the numbers has been misread.
 
maurice turner said:
Hi Greg if that bike was registered in Victoria there is an enthusiasts association
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It would be interesting to know who they are. First I'm going to follow up with John Buskes in the New Year.
I also agree with Cosi. They have picked up a number 7 stamp instead of a number 1...
 
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