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Thread ID: 124851	2012-05-23 08:56:00	Making Car Rego Easier and cheaper	coldfront (15814)	PC World Chat

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1276938	2012-05-23 08:56:00	Yes Rego aka vehicle licencing Something that struck me is how costly out licencing system is with the system in place. Yet there is one simple way that things could be made easier and cheaper if you got multiple vehicles. For example if you take you vehicle off the road and it still has a current licence you can not get a refund on the unused portion. We struck this recently when our car we regoed for a year decided to blow up and the repair cost is something we can not currently afford. So until we can afford it it is off the road with a years worth of unclaimable rego unless we cancel the plates apparently e.g more costly to re rego. Why the heck can you not just make a declaration of off road and get a refund on the unused portion? Next comes the "putting the rego on hold" if you do then decide within 3 months to put it back on the road you get stung right back to the day you put it on hold, defeating the object of why you put it on hold in the first place. Again when our main vehicle decided to blow its guts, the vehicle in the garage originally parked up for the winter two months ago was renewed and two months back rego to pay! So the story is NZTA got 13 months worth of Vehicle Licence from us for vehicles parked at the back of our garage. Also a point to make is if you do let your rego lapse and do nothing (put it on hold) after 12 months they cancel the rego and you still get stung the previous 12 months. Something that is really overlooked when we complain about the cost aye!	coldfront (15814)
1276939	2012-05-23 09:04:00	You can afford two cars?	plod (107)
1276940	2012-05-23 09:11:00	Do you mean that if it was on a hold, and you need it by making a change, it back dates it when it's been sitting in the garage. :eek: I can borrow others. My car on a hold for a "continous" 24 months plus now .. Yes we have to redo the paperwork everytime but they do send you an invoice which gives you a few weeks before it is due so you have some notice/reminder to fill out another form at the Postshop or online at the NZTA website. But yeah .. It's May now. If the rego goes up to August and you put in a 3 months rego hold. The hold begins from August, not now. So if it sits in the gargae or yard now you don't get any refund. They give you the option to drive it or leave it until August. The 3 months hold kicks in at August and completes November.	Nomad (952)
1276941	2012-05-23 11:30:00	You can afford two cars? Nope we have three! Two petrol and one Diesel. Public transport is non existant where I live, cycling to work not an option with over 20 plus kms of mostly up! No 3 sits in the back of the garage as a spare.	coldfront (15814)
1276942	2012-05-23 11:38:00	Nomad! If you place it on Hold for the maximum 12 months you can renew it at anytime in that 12 months only the first three months of Hold do not count and yes you get back dated. Second point was that if you "have already" licenced your vehicle for 12 months and it goes off the road for a mechanical reason unless you hand in the plates (effectively scraping the vehicle) you can not get a refund. I can draw a comparison with the UK where if that situation occurs you can cancel the Tax Disc (rego) and get a refund by declaring SORN (Statutory Off Road Notice) of the remaining portion. Alkso the rego is per calender month. In this country we have an advantage there being able to register from the date not the calender month as in the UK and we can register from 1 day to 15 months. Thank god I did not do what I have done the last couple of years by putting 15 months on it! (Form MR28 if you are interested ). I sussed the system here only did not bank on a vehicle throwing a major spare of a repair. Hence the three cars!	coldfront (15814)
1276943	2012-05-23 11:53:00	Making Car "Rego" Easier and cheaper is not something that would fall within the aspirations of those who are involved with operating it. Those employed to administer it (Drones) are inspired to maximise the employment of more drones, ensuring their own elevation as more layers are wedged under the bottom of the pyramid . This doesn't even remotely foster either of the two objectives the users seek. Those who consider themselves in control of the system (Temps), since they were elected and thereby have a mandate to be as stupid as they can manage without thinking have two principal aims - 1/ To avoid anything that could make it appear they had failed in any manner. 2/ To appease the Temp one level up from them by sending in glowing statistics showing a steady increase in everything from forms filled out per week, to revenue extracted from the public (Marks). Sadly, if you are one of the Marks, efficiency and economy in the system is not a goal, nor is it even remotely likely. (Barring accidents.)	R2x1 (4628)
1276944	2012-05-23 13:15:00	Making Car "Rego" Easier and cheaper is not something that would fall within the aspirations of those who are involved with operating it . If that was true then you missed the other post recently of the the vehicle parked on the side of the road without valid rego and no COF . The response I got from the operators of this system (NZTA) was they were not the enforcement agency buck passed back to Police and Local council who passed the buck to the Police, eventually a result the cops got the vehicle moved! now sits on public council land still without the correct paperwork . If they wanted the money they would do more to collect the overdue fees but then that would be harder than fleecing us . . . . Ok fair point you got .	coldfront (15814)
1276945	2012-05-23 21:57:00	cycling to work not an option with over 20 plus kms of mostly up! No 3 sits in the back of the garage as a spare. A spare. Right, so this costs money and just sits accumulating rust. Sell it. 20Km? Its 56Km round trip for me to work each day. Son does 170km round trip. We don't keep spare cars.	pctek (84)
1276946	2012-05-23 22:09:00	If that was true then you missed the other post recently of the the vehicle parked on the side . . . I think that incident is just an inevitable result of a system that is apparently designed for morons attracting to itself just that grade of person . Energy, aptitude, and competency is not in the job description; naturally, initiative is absolutely prohibited . ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1276947	2012-05-23 22:27:00	I pay for only 3 months rego at a time. It works out dearer than paying a whole year, but that's all I can afford at one time. I wonder how that works out if I have to put the car off the road for repairs? LL	lakewoodlady (103)
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