Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 05:03 pm, by: Avin Luther(Lex_luther)
Green means it was complied under the old system and is not necessarily bad. purple is the new RAWS system and is a more stringent compliance process, it cut down teh number of workshopps able to perform such a task and therefore made them more accountable, I think it also disallowed crashed or damaged vehicles to be repaired and complied.
This is not to say that a car with a green plate is dodgy! What to look out for when buying? look out for your bank balance. If you try and buy a cheap one you will get a cheap car. Spend time and money and you will be happy with it.
Do a search on common problems in the archives this has been covered in detail hundreds of times.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 10:13 am, by: Brian Timms(Turbo_brian)
My 180sx has NO COMPLIANCE plate, and it's got no issue with getting rego.
I was the first Australian owner of the car, bought it via a car yard, and was told everything required would get done before registration.
Upon delivery of the car (with new registration), it had the following:
Bald rear tires (belts showing) lap-straps for rear belts (not retractables as per compliance) Wide fuel filler (not the ULP filler whole required for compiance) Old and original Cat Converter (all imports are required to be fitted with new Cat converters when imported for compliance)
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The list could go on, but basically, my car was pushed through the dodgey method, but subsiquent re-registrations have seen no issues at all.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 08:25 pm, by: Paul Christian(Paul_christian)
A full check by your RAC doesn't go astray. (The RTA does inspections on the East coast I think??)
I replaced a factory cat converter that looked like a dead lung and also had to have the fuel filler siliconed where it had been complied to stop fuel seeping onto the paint work. Leaking headights on Soarers are another pretty common issue that can make a whole car unroadworthy. So a full vehicle inspection is worth the hundred odd bucks.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 09:09 pm, by: Brian Timms(Turbo_brian)
Full vehicle inspections by someone that actually dos know what they are doing is ALWAYS recommended.
Basically, with imports, they dont care for them like Australians (and other nations) care for their cars.
Japanese dont keep cars past 10 yrs usually, they tend to worry less about maintenance, and then flog them of to other nations.
With cars such as Soarers, there are millions of very small things that can go wrong, and then lead to lots of money to to diagnose, only to find it's something small and bothersome.
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