Floods cause delay in Queensland car licence plates and put breaks on sales

[csv8]

Floods cause delay in Queensland car licence plates and put breaks on sales

Paul Donoughue From: The Sunday Mail (Qld) February 20, 2011 12:00AM


THE floods have delivered Queensland car dealers a double blow, with licence plates running low as the natural disaster sullies demand for new cars.

Sales of new cars in Queensland in January are 12 per cent down on the same time last year, according to the Bureau of Statistics, which blamed the floods for the slide.

Dealers are running low on number plates after the machine that manufactures them was damaged when 1.3m of water washed through the Wacol factory.

A replacement machine from Germany is weeks away.

One Brisbane car salesman said dealerships had already started laying off casual workers because they cannot shift stock without licence plates.

"There are dealerships that do not have any plates so they can't register them. It is very worrying," said another major Brisbane dealer.

A spokesman for the Department of Transport said dealers had been notified of the problem and the issue had since been cleared up. He said the state was not in danger of running out of number plates.



But dealers maintain the problem is ongoing, over a month after the floods.

Sales of personalised plates have been suspended.

[302 XC]

Gee im sure the last time i registered a car ,and no plates were avaliable at the local main roads, i got a sticker that had to be affixed to the windscreen
The car gets assigned the next avaliable plate prefix,and this is recorded against the car
So you dont need plates for it to be driven on the road ,this way
I drove around for near on a week like this and all legit
Only 12% drop in new sales, im sure itll get worse than that

[flappist]

Well why do we need plates anyway?

If someone does the wrong thing the copper can check the sticker on the window.

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by flappist

Well why do we need plates anyway?

If someone does the wrong thing the copper can check the sticker on the window.

Well yes, your partly right there. Why on earth do they need the plates straight up? I remember my dad registering the old kingswood when I was young & then he had the plates sent out via the mail. It also had the little white "gummed" paper that sticks to the window with the combination on it. (I think) If not, thats even better. They send out the plates & stickers together. For newly registered cars.......

There is a way around this, & there shouldnt be a problem........ There was a time we sufficed without plates for a few weeks.....

[Stefan]

State Gov at it's best....but these days no plates doesn't work as speed camera revenue might be down for a while.

[Ben73]

Originally Posted by flappist

Well why do we need plates anyway?

If someone does the wrong thing the copper can check the sticker on the window.

Speed cameras. They can't risk someone getting away with doing 5 over the limit.

Don't they have a few trade plates they can lend out?

[Jim Goose]

Originally Posted by Ben73

Speed cameras. They can't risk someone getting away with doing 5 over the limit.

Don't they have a few trade plates they can lend out?

Bit hard for cop to read a sticker on the front of the window while he is chasing you....

but hey lets turn another thread about cop bashing and revenue raising

[flappist]

Originally Posted by Jim Goose

Bit hard for cop to read a sticker on the front of the window while he is chasing you....

but hey lets turn another thread about cop bashing and revenue raising

Yes because so many major crimes are committed with brand new cars....

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Jim Goose

Bit hard for cop to read a sticker on the front of the window while he is chasing you....

but hey lets turn another thread about cop bashing and revenue raising

I'm chasing a *insert make and model here*, down *insert road here* heading in an *insert direction here*.

[Ben73]

Originally Posted by Jim Goose

Bit hard for cop to read a sticker on the front of the window while he is chasing you....

but hey lets turn another thread about cop bashing and revenue raising

All they have to say is they are chasing the one without a rego plate. I am sure there wont be many of the same car and colour in the same area at the same time.

Who runs from cops anyway? I'm sure the first thoughts of new car owners is to perform a back robbery with there new car.

[DJM83]

Originally Posted by csv8

Sales of personalised plates have been suspended.

Crap i ordered mine and they told me a 5 week wait. 4 days later i got them.

[bluebaboy]

Originally Posted by DJM83

Crap i ordered mine and they told me a 5 week wait. 4 days later i got them.

how long ago did you order yours, as i ordered some about 2.5 weeks ago and still waiting. need it rego as need it in a week.

[DJM83]

Originally Posted by bluebaboy

how long ago did you order yours, as i ordered some about 2.5 weeks ago and still waiting. need it rego as need it in a week.

Ordered in Nov, but i got them via lay buy. I paid final payment and got em 4 days later, this was last week.

[GOLDIE]

i regerest a car for my son 2 weeks ago on the gold coast they only had 2 sets left so i was lucky.


Ian

[Venomous1]

Can't they make plates in another state for Queensland?

[flappist]

Originally Posted by Venomous1

Can't they make plates in another state for Queensland?

Actually they make plates for other states and NZ (as well as other countries) in Brisbane.

www.licensys.com

[Venomous1]

Originally Posted by flappist

Actually they make plates for other states and NZ (as well as other countries) in Brisbane.

www.licensys.com

ok understand now

[aussie muscle]

Originally Posted by Venomous1

Can't they make plates in another state for Queensland?

they probably got a different brand machine and the tools are not compatible with other states' machines.

like they used to do with Railway gauges.

[BENT_8]

I actually had this happen to me once.
bought a car from a caryard late on a friday afternoon which had come over from NSW and therefore had no plates.
It needed a regency ID check etc. but they couldnt get it in before the following Monday.
I didnt have a problem with that, although i was living a few hundred k's away and it meant another trip down, but just as we were discussing things a bloke walks in and enquires about my trade in.
The car was already in the yard and so the salesman said it was for sale as is, the guy said he'd take it and all was good, however, i still needed it to get back home, the salesman had no other cars i could take as most were ex interstaters or out of reg and the guy buying my car wanted it there and then.
Anyway, the salesman calls motor reg and enquires about a permit for the car using its old rego number, which they didnt have the plates for, and then tells me its ok to drive it without plates aslong as i have a permit.
He ducks down to the local DMV and gets a permit, sticks it on the car and sends me on my way.
Next day im pulled over by the cops and told it is not on and must trailer the car from where it is.
On the Monday i let fly at the salesman and handed him a reciept for the trailer and fuel costs to get it moved to which he reluctantly agreed to pay in full, i then hit him up for a full tank of juice to prevent me from making a complaint to DMV.

[Zero_PSI]

Imagine a car designed without plates...It just wouldn't look right...I'm so used to seeing number plates.

[BFZ Wagon]

They must be the same company that do the plates for PPQ. My sister recently had to get replacement personalised plates after one was stolen, and she was told it could take up to 6 weeks for them to arrive as the company that makes them were flooded out.

Also. Just a quick rant.. I really wish people (including the stupid media as well) would stop calling them licence plates. WE are NOT in the US. They are called number plates (or registration plates).

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