Advice for shifting a 15y well maintained car between states

Join Date: Dec 2009

Location: Bangalore

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Hello,

My 2nd car, a 2010 petrol Honda City, has been mostly utilized for metropolis rides successful Bangalore.

The car is good maintained and inactive runs similar a dream. I precocious got it evaluated by Spinny, and it came retired with flying colors with a forecast that it volition inactive tally bully for 10 much years, and hardly 1% of specified cars beryllium successful Bangalore today.. which I americium blessed about.

But what is complicating is that my car volition deed 15 twelvemonth people successful Dec 2024.

Now I americium readying to displacement the Honda City from Bangalore to Kolkata to my parents, who request a 4W urgently.

My options are:

1. Sell the City disconnected successful Bangalore, and past bargain different acceptable successful Kolkata. Trying to debar that, arsenic the car is good maintained, and I americium not definite I volition get specified a good maintained car again.

2. Renew the car successful a RTO Bangalore successful Dec 2024, past get a NOC and past get it registered successful RTO Kolkata. Or,

3. Get NOC from RTO Bangalore, determination to RTO Kolkata, and past get it renewed successful RTO Kolkata.

For options 2,3 I was besides told that West Bengal does not let pre-BS4 cars to beryllium registered to the state, not definite of the authenticity.

Which options is the recommended? Your thoughts connected this would beryllium overmuch appreciated, particularly successful airy of what is allowed successful RTOs of Kolkata.

Thanks,
Manas

Join Date: May 2005

Location: Vasco-Goa

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This is simply a tricky concern arsenic your sedan is astir to implicit 15 years soon. AFAIK, getting different 5 twelvemonth renewal for a petrol car is inactive imaginable successful Karnataka. However I person nary thought astir the WB RTO rules and regulations. Further with each these NGT rules, we ne'er cognize erstwhile the axe falls connected the 15 years cars successful our country.

If I were you, I would renew the RC for different 5 years successful Karnataka and going by your post, the car is bully for overmuch longer than 5 years.

I would alternatively opt for a tiny & compact car for my aged parents alternatively of a sedan which is larger and hard to negociate (relatively speaking) successful metropolis driving conditions.

So, I would opt to bargain a pre-owned tiny compact car astatine WB and wouldn't fuss with the transportation of Honda City from Karnataka to WB. I would opt for a good maintained Alto, Wagon R ( for it's gangly lad plan which is overmuch favored by elders for easiness of ingress/egress) oregon a Swift (say 7-8 years aged and disposable for a decent price)

So, a tiny compact car is casual connected maintenance, to drive, uses little parking abstraction and should suffice the needs of your parents.

And the Honda City remains with you for galore much years

Last edited by ashkamath : 4th July 2024 astatine 21:51.