Just curious on this one. Say you are advertising a car and you know it was manufactured a couple of years earlier than it was first registered.
Which date should you put on the advertisment!
What if any are the legal requirements around this!
Is it any different for car dealers!
BTW, I am not advertising such a car, I just notice them now and then and wondered.
I see the CIN cards only seem to go on "first registered dates" which I guess is their legal requirement, just seems funny if the car has sat around for years unregistered and the model changes in the meantime.
gadgit3,
Oct 18, 1:04pm
This one throws people a bit esp when there is a face lift or change in service plan. In most cases I have never seen a car listed with a build date. and it dosn't really affect much because ordering parts these days comes from the chassis number. But it dose make a difference for a classic car where the parts are just lumped into a model date.
edangus,
Oct 18, 2:16pm
I have considered this before. I believe it would be beneficial for both dates to be stated.
petermcg,
Oct 18, 2:32pm
Yes I agree,,, but while we are on the subject,, what about 40 yr old classic is it when first reg in NZ or its birth date from host country.
edangus,
Oct 18, 2:38pm
Manufactured date, then date registered in NZ
kazbanz,
Oct 18, 2:42pm
Its pretty hard with a 10 year old or older car to establish when a car was built especially if its a make/model with a long run of identical cars so i think thats why you use first registered date anywhere in the world as the "year" of the car. I know there was a big stink when (from memory) a Kia franchise was selling 2 year old cars that were otherwise as new. They called the cars NEW cars and Com com came down on em with a tonne of bricks.
thejazzpianoma,
Oct 18, 2:50pm
I think there does need to be some clarification of this under the law. Especially where there are significant changes to a model during that time period.
Perhaps a tick box on the CIN indicating that first registration date and manufacture date are more than 12 months apart, and when that box is ticked the manufacture year has to be included.
Just a thought.
Thanks for your input everyone.
gedo1,
Oct 18, 2:56pm
Agree Jazz.Have seen mo'cycle advertised as 1996 when they were not manufactured after 1983. Can be misleading. Cheers
mcfc11,
Oct 18, 2:59pm
So if lets say you ordered a Ferrari from the factory 12 months ago and it arrives in NZ in January 2013 and you then register it what year is it!
rsr72,
Oct 18, 3:01pm
-model and year built of course. Some, if not many, makes have the year built, as well as the model nr, in the chassis nr, and for some can be matched up to the actual month of build.
thejazzpianoma,
Oct 18, 3:04pm
I think you will find most of the time you wait is for the car to be built (as in lead in time before its gap in the assembly line becomes available), therefore I would expect the build date to only be a month or so before it arrives.
What year it falls on doesn't really bother me too much, especially as you can look up the month if you really want to know. What bothers me more are cars that have big gaps of a couple years or more.
rsr72,
Oct 18, 3:09pm
#11- As Mercedes-Benz did in the early 90's following the sharemarket crash. They had grass fields full of S-Class Mercs stored at Hamburg port waiting for well over a year for sales and shipment. They were unsaleable anywhere in the world.
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