complaince plate

[Guest x_faster2003]

i am importing a r34 gtt throught a broker, i have been waiting for the plate since beginning of March till now. Was told dotar cant print all plate in time before 7th may, so thats why my plate is delayed. Anyone here experience the same problem?

[Scotty]

Yep, the same shit has happened to me too. There's nothing you can do except wait, which is phucking annoying. To give you an idea on where my plates are, we applied for the plate on the 7th of January......yep January.

The plates were only authorised by Canberra on the 9th of May, or 5 months after! The approval to print the plate was only given on the 13th of May, and thats all I heard since

The company which prints the plate, will not release any further information unless you are the CPA owner, what ever the phuc that means, so basically I've been waiting since.

The shop who did the compliance work, my importer cant do anything because nobody is releasing any information. To make matters worse my car is in QLD, while Im here in Melb. And the car cant be moved until the plate is on the car! :T Not happy at all.

I've also heard rumours that if you try to push canberra, they'll invariably put your request at the bottom of the list.

This has been an incredibly sore point for me a I've been waiting for ***ing ages with nobody giving me any answers. My importer has gone missing, I'm dealing with the compliance directly, and I dont really want to be pissing him off...........

*takes a deep breath* enough said.

[Scotty]

PHUCK CANBERRA!!!! BLOODY HOPELESS!!!

[Guest RedLineGTR]

dam it should be worth the wait........taking farken long...hopefully it works out..

[Scotty]

Thanks mate, just hate waiting and not knowing wtf is going on

[Guest x_faster2003]

after reading your experience i shall start prepare myself waiting for another 2 months..... omg...... what are they doing with the plates??? and my broker keep telling me that "will get the plate next week" since end of March ;p

[Scotty]

yeah the infamous the plates will be here next week remark is just a load of bullshyte. Dont believe them as its all just toss!

[Scotty]

I based my decision on what my imported told me, and sold my cdar prematurely. Now I have no phucken car!

[craz0]

I just went through the same shit, purchased the car through Geoff in early March and it come into OZ in early April then it was sent from Bris to Gold Coast for Compliance and RW.

The Compiance plate only turned up last Friday, same old story from DOTARS next week, next week.

I finally get to pick it up tomorrow I havn't actually set eye's on it yet because it's been at the Gold Coast and I'm in Central Qld:(

All will be fine tomorrow:D

[aybee]

i sent my forms in on the weekend before 28th April, so im guessing that im gonna have to wait for a while. yeah ive heard "it will be here next week" thing as well. even heard "it will be here this week for sure" and that was said on a thursday. who are they kidding?

[aybee]

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[Guest x_faster2003]

crazO you are considered lucky man... at least you got your plate already

Aybee, my broker also said "it will be here this week for sure" since last month... wondering are we using the same broker? hehehe

At least now i know the complaince plate dalay is cause by Dotar instead of our broker messing around with us since so many of us are experiencing the same problem. But i dont think my broker should keep geving me emthy promises such as "will receive plate next week". Its like destroying my hopes every week hoping the plate will arrive. He should have tell me the truth which is he doesnt know the truth.

[DJR34]

yeah i had the same probs with my plates too. i havent had it as bad as some of u guys, but my car was landed and complied at the end of april. the comp centre didnt put the paperwork in until after the 7th, so ive been waiting since then. i just got my plates bolted on yesterday. that was the result of a lot of hassling to the complince guys. theyre prob sick of me now.

[Scotty]

"Empty promises." Thats exactly the point. If I had known that it would have taken so long, then I wouldnt have sold my car and be relying on phucken public transport!

If they were honest, I would have made my decisions differently. I hope all the brokers out there are reading this so that no other poor bastard has to go through what I'm doing. I'm sick of them pawning me off and saying yeah soon, soon, yeah bullshyte soon.

But, yes given the rules of this forum, I will not say who my broker is. CrazO, you are one lucky man. Well done. Aybee, hopefully when we get our cars, we can go for one of the cruises here. Phuck I'm pi%$&ed off!

[king_kw13]

I agree with Scotty about the importers - cos I am also waiting like him.

I have just read all the replies here on the thread. Waiting for your car to get here from Japan is long enough, and to be told over and over again that it will be 'here soon' doesn't cut it.

I think honestly and coming clean on all phases of the import process - even if it sometimes is bad news, it would make a lot of us a little less P**Sed off.

... looks like all of us know enough about the frustrations and the process of importing to start up our own businesses haha. at least we know what really annoys us about the process

Good luck everyone with their cars!!!!

[kakimoto33]

It is really frustrationg looking at it from an importers point of view also, we get told by the DOTARS that ALL plates will be issued before midnight on May 7th only to have them not turn up .. we get kept in the dark for weeks on end while they work out what they are going to do about it, which is really hard for us when we have to give answers to a number of clients that are waiting for plates - this even includes my new Skyline

I have been on the phone to people in Canberra as well as talking with almost a dozen compliance workshop owners just to compare their stories in an effort to find the absolute truth ..

At this stage it is just a case of waiting - the DOTARS are apparently working through the backlog as quickly as possible (for them anyway) and we have finally started getting some of the 20 odd plates we are waiting on, so hopefully the others won't be far away now...

[vspecv]

Originally posted by Scotty

Yep, the same shit has happened to me too. There's nothing you can do except wait, which is phucking annoying. To give you an idea on where my plates are, we applied for the plate on the 7th of January......yep January.

The plates were only authorised by Canberra on the 9th of May, or 5 months after! The approval to print the plate was only given on the 13th of May, and thats all I heard since

The company which prints the plate, will not release any further information unless you are the CPA  owner, what ever the phuc that means, so basically I've been waiting since.

The shop who did the compliance work, my importer cant do anything because nobody is releasing any information. To make matters worse my car is in QLD, while Im here in Melb. And the car cant be moved until the plate is on the car! :T Not happy at all.

I've also heard rumours that if you try to push canberra, they'll invariably put your request at the bottom of the list.

This has been an incredibly sore point for me a I've been waiting for ***ing ages with nobody giving me any answers. My importer has gone missing, I'm dealing with the compliance directly, and I dont really want to be pissing him off...........

*takes a deep breath* enough said.

bad news scotty,anybody who says they have been waiting since january is lying.

the whole waiting for plates issue only concerns vehicles in the months of march/april,this is when the delays occured,unfortuantely dotars have screwed us again.theres probably a few of my customers on this thread,if it is ,im sorry if were giving u the run around,but thats what were getting.

i have been told about 4 times,that i should have this week from the plate printers,but were still waiting,from 28th april i have been waiting for 42 plates,i received 5 last week,12 today and expecting another 8 next week,all of which were ordered 2 days apart.

[Scotty]

Craig, Dean and Chris,

Thank you all for your kind words. While I understand that this is not your fault, I guess my point is, please be HONEST with your customers. If the government states that it will be delayed, then so be it. Its not your fault so don't be afraid to tell us.

It just that with my broker, I always feel that I am being pawned off and that they're not really interested in helping me, but rather just trying to get me off the phone.

I have not dealt with yourselves personally, so I can NOT speak from experience. But please do keep this in mind when you are speaking with your customers.

In regards to my plate, I have absolutely no confidence in what anybody tells me anymore. Its sad, but I can no longer trust anybody, as I have been let down far too often.

Regardless, thank you both for taking the initiative in replying to this. It hopefully can give some solice to your customers that at least some brokers are trying.

Please note: My comments are all from personal experience, I cannot account for everybody on this forum. Please do not take offence. I have deliberately have not mentioned any names or companies here. Thanks.

[vspecv]

Originally posted by Scotty

Craig, Dean and Chris,

Thank you all for your kind words. While I understand that this is not your fault, I guess my point is, please be HONEST with your customers. If the government states that it will be delayed, then so be it. Its not your fault so don't be afraid to tell us.  

It just that with my broker, I always feel that I am being pawned off and that they're not really interested in helping me, but rather just trying to get me off the phone.  

I have not dealt with yourselves personally, so I can NOT speak from experience. But please do keep this in mind when you are speaking with your customers.  

In regards to my plate, I have absolutely no confidence in what anybody tells me anymore. Its sad, but I can no longer trust anybody, as I have been let down far too often.  

Regardless, thank you both for taking the initiative in replying to this. It hopefully can give some solice to your customers that at least some brokers are trying.  

Please note: My comments are all from personal experience, I cannot account for everybody on this forum. Please do not take offence. I have deliberately have not mentioned any names or companies here. Thanks.

think u missed the point,all my customers know about the delays and when i tell them 1 week its because thats what im told,just passing on the info i get

[meggala]

/meggala smiles at dean

I'm also waiting from a plate from dean nothing can be done from what I gather I't sucks I know but shit happens. what gets me is that under legislation the plates had to be affixed by the 7th of may they cant play by their rules .

this I believe is also part of the consipisy to make people not want imports believe me most people on here had to wait for their cars to come so we understand but can I tell you there is nothing like driving a skyline all the waiting will be forgotten after a week or 2 of ownership

meggala