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Old 26-07-2006, 09:47 AM   #1
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How do the reg plates in Oz work? how can you tell which car is newer than another?

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Old 26-07-2006, 10:47 AM   #2
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Each state has it's own number plates & offer serveral sizes & colours etc. You can either get what you're given or pay to choose a combination of letters &/or numbers as long as no one else has them in your state & it's not deemed offensive so the only way of knowing when a car was made is by checking the compliance plate.
Check http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/myrta/myplates/index.html for New South Wales's if you are interested
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Old 26-07-2006, 10:48 AM   #3
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In SA generally by the letter and number combination on it, ie; XDC 322 and XDC 987, basically the second plate is newer, but, a re-registered car that has been written off gets brand new plates, and we are almost out of new plates to hand out. Dunno about any of the other states, never really bothered to look
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Old 26-07-2006, 01:58 PM   #4
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Most of the other states I can understand, the ascending number and letter combination is chronological. Except I haven't figured out the Victorian system yet.

To answer the question though, there is no direct correlation between the rego number and a cars age unlike the english system.
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Old 26-07-2006, 03:58 PM   #5
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Vic rego is easy if you stay with standard Plates.

Starts at AAA 000 and goes up. Once its hits AAA 999 it goes AAB 000 and so on and so on.
Once they run out of Letters and Numbers they tend to change colour of the writing or plate.
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White writing on Black
Green writing on White
Blue writing on White.


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Old 26-07-2006, 04:22 PM   #6
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New South Wales ran out of 3 letter 3 number combinations so have gone to 2 letter 2 number 2 letter combo eg. AA00AA, but just gives an idae of when re registered after being out of rego
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You should try and work out the ones in Perth.
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Old 26-07-2006, 04:46 PM   #8
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You should try and work out the ones in Perth.
yeah, perth people have too many digits :P

7 being standard from memory ?
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Old 26-07-2006, 06:09 PM   #9
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Your system is really simple

Incase anyone is interested this is how the english one works


right the first two letters symbolise where it was registered e.g. linclonshire or pembruckshire technically which county. the two numbers are for the two months each new reg comes out so each september a 50 reg comes out and the last number after the 50 e.g. 5(1) is for the year it was registered. 2001. and then in march when the next new reg comes out it is an '0' number so again say in march 2002 the reg would be '02'. and then the last three letteres are just selected randomly
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