Does anyone knoe the correct story regarding what the paperwork exchange surrounding a trade in to a dealer and buying another second hand car ?
I have looked at the Oasis site and it's clear and unclear at the same time.
They say - "If you sell your vehicle to a motor dealer, you have to complete a form RF 105, which is available from the motor dealer. The completed form should be returned to the Vehicle Registration Unit of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, while the Vehicle Licensing Certificate and Vehicle Registration Certificates are given to the motor dealer."
It doesn't say whether you post it, or whether you sign it and give it back to the dealer and let him post it. It also doesn't say whether this is an absolute requirement or whether it is optional. It looks absolute ("you have to") to me I guess.
Anyway, the reason for the post is that in a recent transaction with a dealer (non-SIMI) we exchanged the Vehicle Registration Certs and that was all. I asked about RF105 (having read it on Oasis) and that was greeted with a resounding "oh, we don't do those here, we'll just fill out these forms and bob's your uncle." Since I didn't have the Oasis stuff in front of me at the time I thought *perhaps* I had mis-read it. I got a receipt for the vehicle complete with Chassis number, etc . . . I also made sure I got photocopies of the signed & dated registration certs for both vehicles.
I guess I am wondering whether the dealer was either up to some sort of wheeze or maybe he was just reselling the car already and didn't want/need it processed through the RF105 system. If there was an online version of the form I could have printed it out and brought it up, but Oasis simply said the dealer would give it to me and when he didn't we were already most of the way through the transaction, the insurance had been transferred, etc . . . so I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that this was the way things worked.
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I have looked at the Oasis site and it's clear and unclear at the same time.
They say - "If you sell your vehicle to a motor dealer, you have to complete a form RF 105, which is available from the motor dealer. The completed form should be returned to the Vehicle Registration Unit of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, while the Vehicle Licensing Certificate and Vehicle Registration Certificates are given to the motor dealer."
It doesn't say whether you post it, or whether you sign it and give it back to the dealer and let him post it. It also doesn't say whether this is an absolute requirement or whether it is optional. It looks absolute ("you have to") to me I guess.
Anyway, the reason for the post is that in a recent transaction with a dealer (non-SIMI) we exchanged the Vehicle Registration Certs and that was all. I asked about RF105 (having read it on Oasis) and that was greeted with a resounding "oh, we don't do those here, we'll just fill out these forms and bob's your uncle." Since I didn't have the Oasis stuff in front of me at the time I thought *perhaps* I had mis-read it. I got a receipt for the vehicle complete with Chassis number, etc . . . I also made sure I got photocopies of the signed & dated registration certs for both vehicles.
I guess I am wondering whether the dealer was either up to some sort of wheeze or maybe he was just reselling the car already and didn't want/need it processed through the RF105 system. If there was an online version of the form I could have printed it out and brought it up, but Oasis simply said the dealer would give it to me and when he didn't we were already most of the way through the transaction, the insurance had been transferred, etc . . . so I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that this was the way things worked.
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