Phoenix

An update on the situation as we had three to bring.

So once you have obtained Personal Import Approval for your bike - cost $50 from Vehicle Imports (providing you have owned it for 12 months previously)


So it arrives and you pay 10% customs on the value AU dollars and take it home (in a van or on a trailer)

You then book it in to local licensing centre. They check it over and that it complies and then they send off one of your copies from imports to obtain a Personal Import Sticker which gets put on the frame. You then take it back and the local licensing centre issue you with a registration.

Around $70 for licensing centre and seems a bit wrong end around to me that you have to take it first for it to fail becuase it doesn't have a Personal Import Sticker but you can only get the personal import sticker from them sending back to Canberra in the first place but hey ho - it's no real hardship.

The $70 includes a 2 day temporary pass so you can ride the bike to test centre.

Its nothing like a uk mot. Basic check, takes more time to fill out the paperwork for chassis numbers etc. They check lights work and thats about it really.

I was a tad concerned when the tester presumed there was bodywork missing - from a naked Ducati Monster However he quickly checked and all was well.

The above info applies to WA - not sure about anywhere else

HCJ

Excellent post, Phoenix, thanks.

Did they test for noise?

Phoenix

They would have but their tester broken - thankfully as he said the carbon sil's we have would have failed.
I did put the db killers in, bike ran like poo, but I reckon it may just have scraped through.
The max is apparently 94 db. I'd love to see some of the harleys here get away with 94 db's when they come past our house

Thanks - it may be useful to someone in search sometime. I know sorting it all out originally worried me lots.

HCJ

Thanks for that. I have a full HRC race system on my RC45 and it's an operatic 103db. I better put the standard system back on for the test.

Phoenix

Yep thats what i'm doing with the other one.

The_Wookie

I'm still thinking about taking my bike over to WA. Did you need to get the speedo converted to KMH?

furkew

An ozzie friend of mine was called up after a complaint about his pipes making too much noise (while splitting lanes in Melbourne ) he took off his aftermarket pipes, went to the test centre, passed, got home, and put the aftermarkets back on



If the bike is standard while being tested, you dont need to worry too much after the aftermarket parts after that, unless you get complaints of course.

Phoenix

I have changed all ours to kph clocks - easy fix on our bikes. However i'm not sure they actually noticed.