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If your registration for that vehicle is expired, it is no longer registered with the motoring club that you are a member of.

This means when you try to redeem your carnet at the end of the tirp, you will get nix

It may not effect you while travelling but sure as eggs, it will effect you on your return, read the fine print on the carnet
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If your registration for that vehicle is expired, it is no longer registered with the motoring club that you are a member of.

This means when you try to redeem your carnet at the end of the tirp, you will get nix

It may not effect you while travelling but sure as eggs, it will effect you on your return, read the fine print on the carnet
i am fully aware of the fine print as i have had more than 20 carnets with export number plates.

there is no problem to redeem the carnet as long as you have all documentation.
if somebody goes with export number plates i assume he intends
to sell the vehicle, so you need to proof that import tax is cleared
then you get your deposit back.
who cares about a registration as the vehicle is exported ?

in case you want to extend/renew your carnet with
national number plates it is true that normaly you
need a valid registration, but:

the " fine print " says, you need a copy of the registration document to renew the carnet.
so you copy it before you deregister the vehicle and use the old copy,
that works to renew the carnet.

plenty people who deregister their vehicles would otherwise have this problem to renew the carnet.
in fact it works like that with adac without any questions.

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If your registration for that vehicle is expired, it is no longer registered with the motoring club that you are a member of.

This means when you try to redeem your carnet at the end of the tirp, you will get nix

It may not effect you while travelling but sure as eggs, it will effect you on your return, read the fine print on the carnet
In my experience this isn't true. I got my carnet deposit back when my NSW rego was almost 1 year expired. For sure you need valid rego to get the carnet, but after that I really don't think anyone cares.

There was also this thread on this subject a while back:

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...stration-58293
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If your registration for that vehicle is expired, it is no longer registered with the motoring club that you are a member of.

This means when you try to redeem your carnet at the end of the tirp, you will get nix

It may not effect you while travelling but sure as eggs, it will effect you on your return, read the fine print on the carnet
This might be the case in Australia but in the UK registration or road fund tax as we call it has no connection to your motoring club, I have never been asked about this and don't know that any Brit ever has. It does say that vehicles should be legal in country of origin but in practice all they want to see is that it is stamped out of every country it was stamped into.
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This might be the case in Australia but in the UK registration or road fund tax as we call it has no connection to your motoring club, I have never been asked about this and don't know that any Brit ever has. It does say that vehicles should be legal in country of origin but in practice all they want to see is that it is stamped out of every country it was stamped into.
Registration in Australia also has no connection to the motoring club issuing carnets. The motoring club will want to see proof of rego before issuing a carnet but they have no way of checking directly with the state government whether you've paid or not. Proof of rego can't be the original document as you need to keep hold of that as the vehicle owner, so the proof will always be a copy. How edited or photoshopped the copy is depends on where you stand on these things I guess.
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Registration plates are easy to obtain here in the UK (check out the web) even germany metal ones, order one in the UK, shipped to you're home address and when you leave the area where you "need" the export plate swap it over.
But as said before I'm the same, only thing that was ever checked was the carnet and only once did anybody leave the office chair and check the bike and that was only the VIN, they didn't even walk round the back of the bike (Iran border).
They know you can stick any plate on the vehicle, they aren't going to worry about what extra info is on the plate.

How about 6 inches of white Gaffer tape, just wrap it around the bit you're worried about!

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