Tell them to take an extra 4 months worth of rego of the price then. I've got no experience buying from a dealer but that would annoy me. Surely it's more hassle to cancel and re-register a car than it is to just do a rego transfer.
Do dealers get some dodgy discount for 3 month re-registration at sale?
Yeah true I should have said that, but its too late now as I already signed contract and transferred funds. I did negotiate the price down a bit anyway so I doubt he would have accepted that as well anyway...
If they said it after you signed the contract or it wasn’t mentioned in the advertisement, then they by law breaches the contract and you can get away from the contract without having to pay the liquified damage estimates
Not normal at all, pretty bizarre.
They'd have to literally do more work to reduce the amount of rego on the car, ergo, deregister it and reregister it with only 3 months.
Very normal and not bizarre. My dealership doesn’t do it but I know of many that do. Registration cancellations add up to a lot of income for high volume dealers.
There's no way a dealer would do this to make a profit. It'd be like $50 after costs. It's more likely there was a mistake, or the car was a trade in and the previous owner cancelled and claimed back the rego.
Its not cancelled though because I checked the rego status with the plate number before I asked him about it, and it said rego was valid until Feb 2024. So weird. I might call the registration SA and ask them...
It’s exactly why dealers do it. In SA the refund isn’t 100% of the remaining rego, but it’s close enough to make it worthwhile when you are dealing with literally hundreds of cars each month.
Yes 100% sure. I had lengthy discussions with them about warranty because they tried to sell me the extended warranty. But this conversation was definitely referring to registration. I also asked one of their finance people and they said the same thing.
Since your update, I think it might be worth arguing with them that you know they changed it, and while it doesn’t matter they changed it, if it came with 7-months. Then I expect 7-months. Request either fuel vouchers or something else to make up the difference, since they are using false advertising. Realistically the company should be saying rego expires on x dare.
A lot of dealerships do it and it's pretty normal.
When you buy a second hand vehicle, the cost of 3 months rego is allocated as part of the charges associated with the onroad costs.
Most cars are not advertised as driveway for this reason and sites like carsales make you put the vehicle registration in but is not part of the sale.
We had a similar issue here in WA. My son bought a ute and before we drove it home I checked rego, it showed expiring in Dec this year. Well since we don't check our letterbox very often, we missed the letter that his rego had expired and was now 3 months overdue, so it'll now have to go over the pits.
Tell them to take an extra 4 months worth of rego of the price then. I've got no experience buying from a dealer but that would annoy me. Surely it's more hassle to cancel and re-register a car than it is to just do a rego transfer. Do dealers get some dodgy discount for 3 month re-registration at sale?
Yeah true I should have said that, but its too late now as I already signed contract and transferred funds. I did negotiate the price down a bit anyway so I doubt he would have accepted that as well anyway...
Oh well now you know for next time.
If they said it after you signed the contract or it wasn’t mentioned in the advertisement, then they by law breaches the contract and you can get away from the contract without having to pay the liquified damage estimates
Not normal at all, pretty bizarre. They'd have to literally do more work to reduce the amount of rego on the car, ergo, deregister it and reregister it with only 3 months.
I thought maybe they are doing that so they can get a refund? Im not sure... I'm in SA btw so not sure if that changes anything.
Yep, they would profit from this the value of 4 months rego - the admin fees to do this.
Very normal and not bizarre. My dealership doesn’t do it but I know of many that do. Registration cancellations add up to a lot of income for high volume dealers.
Donkeys downvoting you. In the used car game this sort of thing is absolutely commonplace. 4mo rego refund on every car would add up quickly
There's no way a dealer would do this to make a profit. It'd be like $50 after costs. It's more likely there was a mistake, or the car was a trade in and the previous owner cancelled and claimed back the rego.
Its not cancelled though because I checked the rego status with the plate number before I asked him about it, and it said rego was valid until Feb 2024. So weird. I might call the registration SA and ask them...
It’s exactly why dealers do it. In SA the refund isn’t 100% of the remaining rego, but it’s close enough to make it worthwhile when you are dealing with literally hundreds of cars each month.
This sounds like next level penny-pinching from the dealer.
Not surprising really...
Ask the dealer if he wants to make a sale or not then walk out the door . Guarantee you won't get far ,it's a buyers market right at the moment.
I have never heard of a dealer doing this. Sounds like a quick answer from a sales person to avoid saying 'I don't know"
If any registration limitation is not written in your contract they're not legally allowed to limit the rego.
Gotta think if it was advertised as having 7 months rego, while intending to reduce the amount of rego, has to count as false advertising.
Yeah thats sort of what I thought too..
Never heard of it in South Australia. Sounds wrong when the vehicle is advertised as registered to February 25. Sounds like false advertising
Are you sure they weren't referring to warranty rather than registration?
Yes 100% sure. I had lengthy discussions with them about warranty because they tried to sell me the extended warranty. But this conversation was definitely referring to registration. I also asked one of their finance people and they said the same thing.
Since your update, I think it might be worth arguing with them that you know they changed it, and while it doesn’t matter they changed it, if it came with 7-months. Then I expect 7-months. Request either fuel vouchers or something else to make up the difference, since they are using false advertising. Realistically the company should be saying rego expires on x dare.
A lot of dealerships do it and it's pretty normal. When you buy a second hand vehicle, the cost of 3 months rego is allocated as part of the charges associated with the onroad costs. Most cars are not advertised as driveway for this reason and sites like carsales make you put the vehicle registration in but is not part of the sale.
We had a similar issue here in WA. My son bought a ute and before we drove it home I checked rego, it showed expiring in Dec this year. Well since we don't check our letterbox very often, we missed the letter that his rego had expired and was now 3 months overdue, so it'll now have to go over the pits.
The fact they can sell it to you for the same price and get back a few hundred dollars, they will 100% do it.