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outdoorsnz

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#319262 7-Apr-2025 11:13
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I've just bought a 2nd hand diesel car that was privately imported (not a dealer) into NZ awhile ago.

 

Car is in MPH. So odometer / trip meter etc is also in miles. Does have Kmh on the inside of speedometer dial. Just ordered a cheap dash GPS speedo to avoid confusion and can see speed at a glance.

 

But I can't quite get my head around the diesel RUC in respects to odometer being in miles and can't see anything about this on NZTA.

 

So you buy RUC in K's. 1000 k units. Looking at al the past WOFs etc, it looks like they've possibly just treated the odometer like it is in K's. And the same for RUC.

 

What is the correct way to do this? Thanks


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  #3362773 10-Apr-2025 19:09
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OK have got this all sorted now! Phoned NZTA and got a very helpful person, gave me a ref # and took the car to vinz to get the odometer inspector to sight and verify the odometer reading in miles.

 

Viv from vinz was very helpful, she rang NZTA special line and sorted it for me. Took awhile.

 

AND! ChatGPT was a little wrong. The issue was when vehicle was imported, who ever put the vehicle down as being in k's which meant everything got out of whack when entering miles odo and buying k's. 

 

So now I can buy RUC units in miles not k's. ie. 1 unit = 621 miles. No conversions required. And says Miles on ruc page.

 

Was quite over in the k's. Someone is getting a bill...


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