Getting a car legal

[Swanny87]

Travelling Australia (from the UK) for year and toying with the idea of getting some form of wagon (Falcon, Commodore). The way of registering cars in Australia is mind bogglingly confusing... Can someone please tell me what is required to make a car legal in all states/territories? The costs involved would be helpful as well

Or

Can I get a car legal in one state/territory and just drive it anywhere?

Thanks in advance

[Swanny87]

Thanks for explaining!

So I need to be looking at cars with a RWC and Rego?

What do you mean by unregistered? No plates or no Rego?

How long is a RWC valid for? A year the same as UK MOT?

Cheers

[Swanny87]

Currently in Melbourne but only got a few days then heading up to Sydney

[Swanny87]

Thanks for all the advice everyone! It's all starting to add up to about $4k for an '02 Falcon that's done 250k kilometres! I'll probably need to take a rain check on this one...

That's before the rego expires in November!

Edited by Swanny87 on Thursday 26th May 13:56

[Swanny87]

To be honest that was an example on carsales.com.au... Haven't really had a dig round gumtree yet

Got any you can send my way?

[Swanny87]

I like your train of thought! Wagon preferably, if I need a place to sleep as a last resort. I reckon you can sleep in the back of a 928 though...

[Swanny87]

Jader1973 said:

I don't know the answer to this, but can you register a car in your name without a local address?

Only asking because when we moved over here and I bought our car the dealer got all grumpy because I had a UK license and the QLD roads wanted a stat dec from my FIL saying I lived at his address before they would give me a QLD license, although I was in their system because as part of registering the car they'd set me up with a number. The woman dealing with me actually asked if I'd been caught speeding

I thought most backpacker cars were never re-registered and whoever has it at the time just pays the rego online. Hence there are a lot of "WA rego paid until Dec" type ads.

If you get caught doing that, surely there is a fine? So you mean doing the rego under the previous owners name?

[Swanny87]

Out of interest, how much did that set you back?