I'm doing an assignment , and need to know roughly how much is the fine of owning a kereta-potong. (Self-Built-Car)

Have you seen shows like monster garage? They are able to build their own vehicle in other countries, but not here, in Malaysia, if i'm not mistaken, you'll be fined or be jailed or something? For self-building-cars and driving it around?


If you have the list , or a picture showing the saman rate of owning one, do link me.

Google - didn't help.


Thanks~!

This post has been edited by Synthesia: Feb 13 2009, 10:01 AM

I guess you have been watching too much TV and not getting enough facts. As long as you build a car that can be approved by the road transport authority, it will be legal. That includes home built road legal replicas.

The same applies to Malaysia but since Malaysia has a strict law about changing the looks of the original car, you can't build replicas. You can also buy a road legal old junk and restore it (like the Vintage/Classic car guys). However, you cannot take 2 halves of a car and join it together. Kereta-Sambung is illegal.

A road legal car must be registered and inspected by JPJ.

call jpj for the answer. hotline 03-88884244

Okay , maybe i have been watching too much TV .

Well, all i want to know is, roughly how much is the saman, if The car is not JPJ approved.

You can build it in your house and never take it on the road. No saman. It is not illegal to build. It is only illegal when you drive it on the road. You can build it at home, get a tow truck to tow it for your exhibition/assignment and tow back. No problem with that. My friends do that for their unregistered road illegal track cars. If you drive it on public roads, then it becomes illegal and they'd compound your car and you'd never see it again. I do not know the quantum of the saman.

Saman? They sita the car la. If u want it back, need to settle under the table. Check JPJ Wangsa Maju... plenty of sita cars there. They normally scrap it after a while.

Well if u dont bring it out then it wont be illegal rite?

Okay, let's put it at a case, that it the owner is doing everything illegal.

The car is not registered
He drives it around

if the car is not registered, either he is using fake registration number and roadtax. when roadblock the police or jpj find out will sita the car, the driver might be end up in court.
if the car is registered and due to a big accident and become a kereta potong, no one will know it. it may cause by the workshop using wrong method of kereta potong to repair the car. the car cannot change the owner if it fail the puspakom inspection

probably RM300 minimum or jail term.

Pls la just call 999 to ask lohhhh