[martrogers]

I made sure I had the emission compliance rule from the NSW RTA in writing before I started my build.

They said that I would have 3 years to complete the build after the build date of the complying donor car. I therefore needed to find a relatively recent write off.

My donor car was build date Oct 04 so I had until Oct 07 to "complete", which I just managed.

They didn't define "complete" so I got my engineer to agree it was complete before he even started testing (which it was). It was actually nearly 12 mths after completion when I finally got number plates, but thats another story.

Of course, they change the rules regularly so this may not be the current rule.

The state system is detrimental to many industries, if the UK can have unified rules and laws for 60m people why can't Australia - unbelievable.