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Yorkshirekid

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#295737 19-Apr-2022 15:08

This is a tricky one and I don't know how best to solve this, so I'm hoping somebody may be able to help.

I want a custom plate. I have discovered that the plate I want is taken and currently been exempt for a year. I'd like to make the owner an offer for the plate (seeing as he/she isn't using it atm), but I don't know how to find out the owner detail. I asked a police mate of mine and you can guess what he told me to do - or where to go! And, fair enough.

All I want to do is call the fella and make an offer. I don't care who he is or where he is. Any suggestions how I might be able to resolve this please.

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#2903930 19-Apr-2022 15:30

AFAIK there is no way to contact the owner at all.

If you do find out though, let me know because there is a plate I would like buy too :)

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#2903932 19-Apr-2022 15:35

Once upon a time you anonymously walked into a postshop with $3 and requested address/name

You can see the gaping big flaw that had and why it was shut down soon after going public..

Might be up the creek without looking to the likes of social media car groups. Doubt even the sole approved plates issuer would be permitted to reach on behalf.

It's a giant can of worms tracing plates to individuals for now obvious reasons.

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#2903934 19-Apr-2022 15:40

https://transact.nzta.govt.nz/transactions/ReqPersonalInfoAccess/entry

A quick google led me here, you used to go to the post office but with them disappearing and everything going online this makes sense.

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#2903936 19-Apr-2022 15:41

When plates, rather than kiwiplates, were running it, you could request an already-issued plate from them and they basically contacted the owner on your behalf, to ask if they would be interested in selling. Not sure if kiwiplates could or would do the same if you contacted them.

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#2903941 19-Apr-2022 15:47

When I sold my car to a motorcycle shop owner he knew everything/detail about the vehicle ownership

Do you know any motorcycle shop owners?

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#2903948 19-Apr-2022 16:03

Batman: When I sold my car to a motorcycle shop owner he knew everything/detail about the vehicle ownership

Do you know any motorcycle shop owners?

If they are approved nzta agents for purchasing new registration and the likes. Don't believe the system is exactly shut off from other functions like looking stuff up

Albeit likely dubious.

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#2903950 19-Apr-2022 16:05

You have to be authorised to access the motor vehicle register: https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/how-the-motor-vehicle-register-affects-you/authorised-access-to-the-register/frequently-asked-questions/

It's mostly car dealers and finance companies. I guess you would need to find a personalised plate broker that is also an authorised user.

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#2905463 22-Apr-2022 17:58

After you've found the plate owner's details & contacted them, you gotta cross your fingers & hope that they're not a private person & that they don't mind invasive behaviour, because what you're advocating here could easily be considered creepy. But money! & what? It's his plate & if he wanted to sell it, he could take appropriate steps to do so.

Just because you have some spare cash & a desire for his plate, that does not in any way give you the right to dive into his personal information & breach his right to privacy. Straight up.

(Ok, if you're the Sultan of Brunei & willing to drop 3 extra 0's on the market price, then there might be dispensation available. Might be. That's also the owner's decision, not yours.)

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#2905483 22-Apr-2022 21:07

NZTA have very strict rules for those authorized to access the motor vehicle register. Giving away personal information is a definite no-no. Not only is it unlikely you will find someone to provide that information, I suggest it is perhaps not cool to even ask that of someone.

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#2905490 22-Apr-2022 21:36

Best thing to do would be to try to get him to contact you. Stick up wanted adds on line in various forums and market places with details of the plates and hope he sees it and reaches out to you.

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#2905692 23-Apr-2022 14:45

Is there no character variation available to recreate the plate you're after? There's usually some way of re-building the word you want, often with a clever twist that makes the result even better than the plain original.

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#2905848 23-Apr-2022 18:55

I'm sure the holders of popular or desirable personalised plates would love the idea of a constant 'sell to me, please???' as the cost of having ownership of said plate.

Feels like a great opportunity to adjust your expectations and not get hung up on unobtanium.

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Speedy885

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#2912506 10-May-2022 22:24

From what ive been told, there is a NZ Personalized Plate Group on the bookface and posting up a wanted ad on there has been quite successful for people.

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#2912617 11-May-2022 12:01

AFAIK, the motor vehicle register only holds data for plates that are actually registered to (and physically affixed to) a particular vehicle at a particular time.

If the plate in question is currently unused (and therefore not attached to or associated with a vehicle) then the motor vehicle register will not hold any information at all for that plate - other than maybe some historical information of vehicles it might have been attached to in the past.

As an example, I have several personalised plates sitting in a drawer at home that I own but have never actually used/affixed to any vehicle that I own, so even if someone did have access to the motor vehicle register, they could never trace ownership of any of these plates to me. At best, the register may provide historical information regarding vehicles that some of my second hand plates may have been attached to in the past, but those vehicle details would relate to previous owners of the plates.

I suspect that only KiwiPlates would hold ownership/entitlement records, and they won't/can't release those details to anyone.

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#2912628 11-May-2022 12:45

interesting you have unattached plates - currently kiwiplates will only manufacture a plate if you attach it to a vehicle (NZTA register will be updated upon plate production)

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