What's up with the new statutory write-off laws?

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by leesa

Yeah it's really bizzare, I'm going around in circles.
Unregistered permits and even trade plates I don't think will help as the car doesn't have a roadworthy. From what I've been told, no vehicle is allowed on the road in any fashion without a safety certificate, but it's unobtainable without first getting the surrogate VIN but getting it is proving complicated.

Apparently it used to be a case of just taking the car to qld police for an inspection and a new VIN, but they don't deal with the public direct anymore, they insist on being referred from QLD Transport.

So it looks like I need to go to QLD Transport and ask to be referred to QLD Police for a surrogate VIN. Noone can say whether I need to take the car to QLD Transport when I ask for the surrogate VIN, so I'm going to hope it's a no. Fingers crossed.

You don't need a rwc to use an unregistered vehicle permit. How do you think people drive cars to get the rwc, and then to vicroads to get them registered?