I cannot stress how important it is to check, check and check when it comes to licence and registration on a car, both before and after buying it.
I say this simply because I have spent almost R3k in the past couple of weeks to try and sort out a certain aircooled's registration....
Thankfully, I have a contact that know people at the licensing offic. This means everything especially when you have incompetent, moronic, arrogant, kfc-gobbling bunch of f####### pirates sitting behind a counter where they can barely function and help.
Africa, don't you love it!!
I can't say much about my saga on a public forum, but the gist was that the car had outstanding licence fees which meant that I couldn't put the car on my name and it was flagged on the system.....etc etc etc etc
Thankfully, my contact pulled some strings after which I was liable only for the penalty which was around R1000-00, was then totally re-registered and now has a new style GP registration. Car was almost impounded too
Funny part is that the first time I drove the car was to take it to the testing station to police clear the new engine, with no back seats, engine cover and a sticky gearshift....oh and had to take all the backroads to dodge the police....
I got a phone call this afternoon - Aircooled is finally on my name, with a current disc, roadworthy and new barcoded registration papers.
From this point forward, I will only buy cars that have papers that are 100% in order. No papers, no deal, unless it can be registered legally as a built up or similar which is not difficult to do.
Oh and if you buy something that has the much vaunted "deregistration papers/scrapping papers", BEWARE!!! Why was the car deregistered in the first place??
They are making life very difficult to re-register cars that were taken off the road in such a fashion....
Contacts are everything. I paid quite a big sum of cash to sort things out, but I was happy doing so because now everything is 100%.
