Rego-ing a scooter

[Coyote]

I have looked on the LTNZ site but it's complete bullshit and I can't find anything

How easy is it to rego a scooter? Since you don't have warrants (at least this is still the case isn't it?) I don't expect you need an MR2A or any ridiculous bureaucratic crap like that surely? Can you simply go to the AA and just give them the money?

[xwhatsit]

That depends if it's a scooter scooter or a moped scooter. If it's a moped scooter you don't need bollocks all, do you? You just ring them up in that case, and pay for registration (which is sehr cheap), and that's that. If it's a scooter scooter, then it's actually a motorbike scooter, in which case you have to go through all that associated shite.

[magicfairy]

Did you read this at LTNZ web site
http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/factsheets/43.html

Also they usually respond with plain answers if you email them, or ring the 0800...

[cynna]

i registered mine new at AA. they didnt have the make or model on there database so just registered the make as "moped"

only needed the engine and chasis number - no other paperwork required

the only trouble i had was when i said it was a scooter and then they said i needed some other tests or paperwork or something. then just had to go to another AA branch and called it a moped and i was sweet

[Coyote]

Did you read this at LTNZ web site
http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/factsheets/43.html

Excellent! That's most of what I wnated to know. How on earth did you find that though?

So if i got a moped I could just walk into the AA and get a rego tag printed?

[davereid]

Yes, as long as it qualifies as a moped, ie less than 2kw power, less than 50cc, max speed of 50km/hr just fill out an MR2B with vehicle make / model and VIN/chassis/engine numbers and you are away. (And $107 poorer).

If the make is not on the LTSA 'puter, then Enter it as "Factory Built".

If its not a moped and you get caught registering it as one, watch your wallet empty...

[magicfairy]

Excellent! That's most of what I wnated to know. How on earth did you find that though?

So if i got a moped I could just walk into the AA and get a rego tag printed?

Go the the web site and search for "moped"

[Coyote]

Go the the web site and search for "moped"
Crazy talk. I just got articles on how to drive a car and crash statistics

Yes, as long as it qualifies as a moped, ie less than 2kw power, less than 50cc, max speed of 50km/hr just fill out an MR2B with vehicle make / model and VIN/chassis/engine numbers and you are away. (And $107 poorer).

If the make is not on the LTSA 'puter, then Enter it as "Factory Built".

If its not a moped and you get caught registering it as one, watch your wallet empty...
I imagine you can get this MR2B sheet from the AA? The $107 would be for the number plate and you'd have to pay the several months rego on top of that right?

[davereid]

Yes MR2B will be held by any LTSA agent. $107 is the number plate fee and includes 12 months rego. Normal rego is $67 per year.

[Jono]

Hmm so say if you were going to buy a brand new Suzuki UZ125 (like this for example: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Scooters/auction-90814720.htm?p=2) and wanted to be a cheap bastard and rego it as a 50cc Moped could you go to the AA and list it as an SJ50 or would the Vin number show that it is an UZ125? Im refering to a scooter that has never been regod before.

Or would you have to rego it as one of those random ones?

Cheers

[davereid]

VIN number includes data on engine type. LTSA may not notice, but if they do you are in serious trouble. All the normal trouble plus fraud.

[Thenaughtebucket]

when a mate of mine got his scooter, it was registered as a 'motorbike scooter' where he had to have a warrent etc even though it should have been a 'moped'..... after going to alot of places to try and get around the fact that it wasnt a 'motorbike scooter' my mate went into one AA shop and deregistered his scooter , and then went down the road to the next AA and registered his scooter as a 'moped'.

Apparently there were very little questions asked, and didnt even need a Vin or chassis number or anything, just had to state year, model, make and the all important colour, and then he was away.

Seemed to be a very easy process from what i can understand.

[vamr]

It's an Aprilia RS250...err... SR50 moped.

[Thenaughtebucket]

yeah that might be a little hard to persuade them..... but yeah, good luck

[Jono]

haha cheers for the input guys.

Was just a thought i had.

[sKilled]

So is it the same story if I were to import a 50cc scooter from Europe? Or do I need special crap for that? I tried calling them after the website confused the hell out of me, but it did the same for the poor woman on the other end of the phone.

[davereid]

If its a moped scooter ie < 50cc < 2kw <50km/hr top speed you could register it no worries. But most euro scooters are available here at close to or even less than the EU price - so why privately import?

[sKilled]

Well the thing is that I have had a good look around and in some countries they can be had for sweet F.A. Due to the rapid change in EU regulations regarding emissions, many scooters become 'obsolete' in very short time frames, and often can only be sold overseas (ergo for chips). Also add to that the facts that a) Scooters are usually available at a lower price when new vs. what we pay, and b)because of the prevalence of 50cc scooters, their resale is nothing near what we experience (the scooter 'craze' is still in its infancy in NZ, being such a farking car oriented nation)

[Thenaughtebucket]

i think the only problem you might face, is if the scooter your importing is not in th ltnz's database, in which case the process might be a lil tougher, but easy way around that is to find a scooter already registered in nz that looks like the one your getting, and register it as that.

the police dont even seem to blink at scooters, amate of mine got waved through a breath testing station while on his scooter, didnt even test him, which might have been lucky for him, but thats another story.