As opposed to what? There is no protection anyway. If you get taught with a dodgy car, regardless of the circumstances of registering it with VicRoads, you are in hot water anyway. There's enough examples of rebirthed cars out there that were stolen 10years or more and went through multiple owners before VicRoads caught up with them and seized them.

My last reason for a stat dec was my car trailer. I bought it at a swap meet, had the rego papers and a transfer form filled out, and a receipt. I got home and I'd lost ALL the paperwork out of my pocket, so I had no proof I'd bought the trailer at all. I could not remember anything but the guy's first name and suburb. Neither the Police or VicRoads would contact the previous owner for me not give me his details. So all I could do was fill out a stat dec stating what happened! As soon as I had the stat dec they transferred the trailer to me, but I would have still lost the trailer if the previous owner decided he wanted it back or reported it stolen.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

I needed to write out a stat dec 13 years ago when I put HaHa the `matic back on the road. The Mk2 S motor I used was out of a Mini that we owned 14 years previously, the motor had laid under a house since.
Regardless, they wanted a bit of paper, so we gave them one.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Talking of bad inspections i had a nissan skyline come into my shop this week with a blowen rear diff. I got a second hand diff for it and the owner asked me to weld the gears up to lock it. I said i could do this but the vehicle could not get a wof with a locked diff he said dont worry he had a mate that worked in garage thats slaps wofs on cars for $80 with out checking the car at all. The normal charge in my area for a wof is around $35-$55 a inspection depending if you go to small workshop like mine or to a dealer. The wof on this car was only four days old it had no springs fitted in the rear and the rear tyres were like slicks with the cords showing in some parts of the tyres and the steering wheel was broken also the front spring were cut and not captive in there holders
crazy