Personal Import compliance plate Stress

[gts4diehard]

Hi

just in process of getting road worthy for my gts4, passed everything else but have been told need seating number on compliance plate, engineer says its not necessary because seating has not been modified, still factory seating capacity.

has anyone here got a personal import?

and does it have the seating capacity on the compliance plate?

mine doesnt and on the plate it has " mod seating capacity --------------------------------" because no changes were made.

any one?

Stephen

[gts4diehard]

hi, just an update for those doing compliancing .

make sure that all the paper work is perfect and assume nobody will do a 100% job.

I ended up getting another plate on my car with the seating capacity on it, to say that my car was changed from a 5 seater to a 4 seater then back to a 5 seater just because the person at qld transport put a 4 in seating capacity instead of a 5!!!! on the origianal reg application - my car hasnt changed at all!

Whats more anoying is that if the person knew what they were doing they would have picked that the original plate did not cover a seating 'change' that they 'apparently' saw and should have asked for a plate with the appropriate seating change code on it. I then would have corrected the error then and not have had to pay for another plate.

and an interesting thing I heard about seating changes, if you follow the letter of the law.e.g. you have a 4 wheel drive and it is a 7 seater and you take out the rear seats technically you have to get it complianced when removing the seats and again when you put them back in. If you dont then your car is not legally registered and shouldnt be on the road.

Implications...

so if anyone has an accident which involves a 4wd, van, mini-van with seating changes then you should be able to say that they arent legally registered and shouldnt be on the road - of course you better check they dont have a mod plate for this.

[predator]

Mine, the engineer put 4 seater on the plate, and that is what it went through RW, etc as. I didn't require the extra seat, and it would have required the installation of an extra child safety point.

good point - hate the 4WD's!! Most of the time however, having an illegal modification will not be valid enough reason to make the other guy automatically in the wrong.

[gts4diehard]

hi predator, is your car a gts-t or 4 etc or a gtr?

if gtr then that is a 4 seater anyway and your compliance plate will match up with what the DOTARS import permission says for a gtr so would be ok.

if your car is a gts derivative which are 5 seaters then your import approval will be for a 5 seater, your compliance plate would have to have "LK1 " on it saying the car has had the seating modified from 5 seater to 4 seater...

Stephen