Motorists of New Zealand are under threat
09-Apr-2010 News
From Jan 2011 onwards the NZTA is about to charge for every access to the Motor Vehicle Register for basic information.
As consumers and voters, we are horrified at this proposal. At present the basic information from the NZTA database is available through CarJam.
CarJam passes this information on as a public service for free. For example, you can currently find out if a car has been reported stolen or if the odometer has been tampered with at no charge and lots more!
This service will end under the NZTA’s announcement.
The NZTA claims that these proposed new charges are necessary for cost recovery. However, this information has already been paid for by the public in the form of licensing fees, registration fees, WOF and COF costs. It belongs to the motorists of New Zealand. We do not have to pay for it twice.
Crime and fraud statistics are high and this proposal will undoubtedly result in an increase in ordinary people getting ripped off.
Email the Minister (from the front page), sign a petition, place your comments below and continue to FB about it.
Please note this is an update to a previous announcement.
CARJAM has saved me many times from being ripped off by dodgy buyers and sellers. Come on NZ Govt, something needs to be free for the honest, hardworking citizen.
we need carjam
It seems govt. depts are constantly trying to justify their existance by coming up with changes that seem unnecessary, e.g. RUC, Why not just tax diesol at source? Now extra charges lumped onto the public for exactly what? Registration and tax already should more than cover costs, if not, why not, Govt, depts can not keep on loading charges and expect the public to keep on paying, there are more than enough unregistered and uninsured vehicles on the road now, the public just cannot sustain constant increases just to keep some public servant employed in a nothing job.
NZTA ARE A PACK OF HUMMERS, THIS HELPS U FIND OUT IF SOMEONE HAS DONE DODGY STUFF TO A CAR SO U CAN FIGURE OUT IF U WANT IT OR NOT, SO WHAT THEY WANT US TO BUY CARS THAT ARE PIECES OF #$%@ ??? LEAVE IT ON!!!! AND FREE STOP TRYING TO MAKE MONEY!!! U GOT HEAPS ALREADY ALL THEY WANT IS TO PUT THERE WAGES UP FOR THEM SELVES
have been buying cars for years now and car jam has saved me a heap load headaches please dont take this asset away from us
protect personal information. any one can buy a pre pay phone card ring the 0900 55 007 number and get anyone’s name and address. from a rego number!!!! y get rid of CARJAM
As a transport operator with vehicles spread throughout the country from Christchurch to Kaitaia, I use carjam on a daily basis to check on the legality of my own vehicles. I should not have to pay to access my own data. If I wish to add to our fleet the information is used to check on the legality of new vehicles.
Land Transport is a public organisation, & all people I have spoken to from Land Transport keep saying…”We are here to help!”… to the point where it sounds like a rote saying for cult indoctrination. In actual fact, in my experience, Land Transport seems to employ people with the sole purpose of getting more money out of the public to justify their own jobs.
Charging us again for a public service we have already paid for, is another example of this.
The country is currently in a recession. The Government sector may be saying differently, but it is about time someone listened to the general public (the voters) who are saying…”NO MORE ADDITIONAL CHARGES!” The public just cannot afford to subsidize any more bureaucracy.
i find carjam very useful at work when i have a large vehicle. i can check the weight of the vehicle and decide if it is safe to put on our 2 tonne hoist. my boss sure wouldnt pay for this service.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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???
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
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”.