If I buy a registration number from JPJ, how many months do I have to register it before it expires?

JPJ's website is very confusing:

This guide says 3 months:
http://portal.jpj.gov.my/v5/index.php?opti...w〈=en&id=33


And this guide says 1 month:
http://portal.jpj.gov.my/v5/index.php?opti...temid=1〈=en


Any ideas?

This post has been edited by basher: Aug 15 2008, 12:06 AM

lol , doesnt matter get it done within 1 month and you will be hassle free , why wait while you got the time to do it ? right ?

Of course I wish I can register it in a month but having some stock problem. Might take sometime beyond 1 month.

I have thought about the same problem before. Cause i might need to buy special plate number with the special Alphabet before got enough down payment for the dream car. Right?

Problem is, how are you going to keep the plate number to not expired. Well I've thought of a way but not sure it works or not, that is to get a very cheap or any old vehicle (motor perhaps) and register the new plate first (this will abandon the previous old plate of that vehicle). Then when you got your destinated car, change the plate again at JPJ.

Hope it works..

Thanks for the info. But I'm not buying any special number plate with 1 digit or unique numbers. Just a running number which I like.

Besides, it is not that I haven't decided what car to buy yet but just that I would need more time for stock to arrive. If it is only 1 month, I would risk losing the number and part away with RM210 just like that. The register onto a cheap motor idea is smart tho. I might do that if I got a 1 digit number plate for future dream car purpose.

This post has been edited by basher: Aug 15 2008, 12:20 AM

yeah , get an old 2nd hand motor to maintain the number , and also you can call up to jpj office and seek for more information , i assume they can provide you with further information

new number is for new car only.. old car cannot take the new number, unless you have another new car to take number from old car..

i thought ts want to tender old number ?

oh he never state lol , old or new plate ?

This post has been edited by rkjsoo: Aug 15 2008, 01:07 AM

last time i went JPJ got stated have to register the plate number to the car in 1 month from date of purchase / booking..

new running plate only for new car by the way , unless you buying old number plate then different saying

basher? proton basher or perodua basher or japanese basher or continental basher? j/k

actually u can registered to the number plate for 3 months then u got to renew the plate and only for 3 times
after that they will let go the plate to other ppl if u still wont able to claim it

$_$ also lor lmao

If its 3 months, then I'm relieved. Thanks

The transfer to motor idea works IF the motor was deregistered or is a new one, you can't just buy any registered motorbike and dump the old number for the new one.

i had similiar problem. now dat i;m going to write to the pangarah of jpj hoping that they will extend my plate number for 2 weeks they said as maximum. i hope it will be approved.

just a few questions, after extension approved will i be getting a proper document stating that my car plate number has another 2 weeks validity period? anyone ??

my salesman doing it for me. so i hope he wont trick me again and again coz i;m inexperience. he is a bad guy always come up with thousands of excuses!~

thank you!~

Last year on Sept, I bought special nom at JPJ padang Jawa. I met the Pegawai, he said can keep for 1 month. Last August bought another one at Padang jawa and meet kerani (coz not very special etc xyxy) she said can keep for 3 months Which one correct.....

if it is running number is one month ..u paid rm220 for that..if tendered number u pay more dunno how much u get to keep fro 3 months. for my case is one moth only. i paid 220.normal wan

But my 2nd num is xyxy (kerani said 3 months) if compare previous no xxx (pegawai said 1 month). quite confiusing.....maybe due to pegawai want me to register early...

This post has been edited by ap_554: Nov 11 2008, 01:50 PM