Comments on: Motorists of New Zealand are under threat

By: Angry Motorist

Angry Motorist — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:56:18 +0000

Mnmnmn. At yet another autocratic nanny state law. Who is the government to decide to do this when the general voice of the people said otherwise on the matter? I thought we were supposed to be a democracy, our voices are supposed to count but little by little through silly little laws being passed it shows me how our freedoms are being usurped by a minority of politicians who know nothing of the real world. (When last did a politician need to use carjam?)

Carjam really assisted me to make the RIGHT choice when purchasing a vehicle.
I feel as motorists the government has already penalised us enough and harassed us with enough levies, fees, taxes, rises, etc all of which suddenly become magically “justifiable” to the government.

Ridiculous, willful and reckless passing of this law when we as motorists said no shows me that we are slowly turning into “The peoples Republic of New Zealand” with “Dear dictators”.

By: Anton

Anton — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 21:41:56 +0000

Hi Frank. Trust us we have tried all we could. Media like CL, Couse UP etc are not interested. FairGo was interested but they closed for holidays and when reopen it’s too late. The minister was asked questions in the parliament through Labour MP and some contradictory answers were given by the ill-informed minister of transport. Such a shame this government scam is happening in New Zealand.

By: Anton

Anton — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 21:38:46 +0000

Yes, Shaun. It's about right. It's easy to get this fixed though. In most cases a ring to NZTA fixed it. Alternatively a more official way

By: shaun

shaun — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:23:15 +0000

Thanks to Carjam it is now obvious that most vehicles going through a WOF check have had their odometers recorded wrong at least once in their lives. For instance my own vehicle had it’s odometer recorded at 940,000km on the NZTA system when it had only done 94,000km at its last WOF check. It’s about time some of these WOF issuers smartened up their act a bit and started recording odometers more accurately. Why aren’t the NZTA following up on all the inaccurate odometer readings???

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:00:27 +0000

Seriously, Get Campbell Live on it! He loves this kind of stuff. Ring tv3 and get some media attention on it. Target, Fair Go!

This service is a must for anyone looking to buy a car. Whether it be checking the odometer readings, whether the car is legal or not etc.

People who are in the auto industry e.g mechanics etc can check chassis numbers to make sure they get the right parts ordered just by running the plate.

This free service helps a lot of people and it must stay free.

By: Anton

Anton — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:05:33 +0000

Tom,
1. You cannot sue government/crown — we have checked this
2. Ownership changes coming in April are good ones.
3. The petition and argument at the moment is about free information which does not have any privacy issues.

By: Tom Atkinson

Tom Atkinson — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:57:58 +0000

We should all bring a class action lawsuit against the NZTA if they do something that increases crime rates. Then again, nobody seems to be talking about the fact it’s only about the personal details that gets the charge raised and this this is not really about revenue gathering but about improving everyones privacy – I actually support this move since it throttles the privacy abuse, and improves privacy.

By: Anton

Anton — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:14:23 +0000

April changes in regards to ownership privacy are good ones. CarJam already hides full address so you cannot really “find” the guy if one wants to stay anonymous. NZ Post does a really bad job of taking IDs and they give out full address. Please get your facts right before accusing.

By: Hippy

Hippy — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:20:19 +0000

CarJam talks about helping people against dodgy sellers, but really what they are doing iis making money selling (because they do charge for the detailed information) private information to any criminal or sicko stalker that comes along. This is wrong and they should be shut down, they are helping criminals and stalkers get information the would not get if they had to go to a post office and show ID and show they have a legitimate reason to get the info.

By: Jason Fox

Jason Fox — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:09:09 +0000

I personaly have the use of an opposition website. However I find this to be obserb, The public should be able to access some information on cars they are purchasing.

Its bad enough the country is trying to climb out of a recession, without being ripped off on one of the publics largest investments.