thomas_hb wrote:
The statutory write off rules don’t apply to older cars, so if it was written off in another lifetime you can repair and reregister it.
Not exactly true.
What is true is that prior to the introduction of the REVS and then PPRS databases there was no means to checck within a state and thence nationally that a car's identity was regitered as having been written off. If they have no record of an older car, then as far as the registration records go, it was unregistered and can then be re-registered.
You need to be careful about this. I bought a used car from a dealer here in NSW, REVS checked out OK. It was only when i went to trade it in on another used car that the dealer refused because PPRS showed it had been a statutory write off in Victoria at a time when there was not even such a regulation in NSW. The only change in between me buying the car and the dealer refusing to take it as a trade in was that the records held had chnged from state based to national.
If there was no record in NSW of a statutory write off of your older Mini under REVS, but in Victoria it was, when you go to re-register it, NSW RMS will now check it on PPRS, which then shows the VIctorian record.
cheers
michael
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