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Making sure that your car is roadworthy and eligible to be driven on the streets of New South Wales can be a confusing proposition. The document issued by the authorities has multiple "slips" of different colours, and many people become confused when they're only trying to conform with the laws. What do you need to know in order to make these different colours work for you correctly?
Your roadworthiness application documents come with four different colour attachments. You will need to focus on two of these, specifically.
Pink
Pink is the colour you want when you need to have an inspection. This is a requirement for cars over a certain age, and these inspections must be engaged satisfactorily before you will be able to get a registration. The inspector will look at your brakes, tyres, lights and other components, or in other words, the inspector will look at the overall capability of your car to make sure it can be deemed as roadworthy. However, the pink slip by itself does not get you a roadworthy certificate. It merely says that your vehicle is eligible to be registered.
Blue
Next, you need to turn to the blue slip. It's possible to get a pink slip but still to be issued a defect notice, and in this case you will need to ensure that the blue slip is filled in correctly as well. Remember that you have to get a satisfactory pink slip first, and if you're told you have a defect at that stage, then you need to get repairs done and have the car re-inspected so you are eligible to move forward.
The blue slip represents a comprehensive inspection of the vehicle, and it goes over all of the components. During this check, the inspectors will look to see whether the vehicle has been previously "written off" in an insurance claim and may engage a forensic identity check to see that no parts can identify the vehicle as being stolen.
Failure
You will need the pink and blue slips if you want your car to be classified as "registered". You won't be able to drive it otherwise, with the exception of back and forth to either a service centre or another inspection centre. If you are stopped when you're driving, you have to be able to show that you are driving the shortest route in between your home and one of these centres, or else you could be fined.
Other Colours
There are two other slips attached to the document. The white slip is the paper on which any defects are recorded if they're found during an inspection. The green slip is the piece of paper that you use to formally apply for your actual registration after you receive both the pink and blue slips.
The process of getting your car registered can be a little confusing, but do make sure that your vehicle is completely roadworthy before you start the process by taking it to your nearest car workshop. In this way, you won't have to deal with each of those different-coloured slips more than once.
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