When are e-Safety Checks, or Pink Slip Inspections as they used to be known, required in NSW?

Generally speaking, if your vehicle is five years or older, your registration renewal notice may warn you that you are due for an e-Safety Check. Previously known as Pink Slip Inspections (and some people still refer to that term) . Only RMS accredited mechanics are allowed to undertake vehicle safety and registration inspections.

Clem Camage Motors are an Authorised Inspection Station in Queanbeyan and can undertake e-Safety checks and issue RMS Pink Slips to allow you to re-register your vehicle. If you need an e-Safety Check or Pink Slip Inspection in Queanbeyan NSW, Clem Camage Motors have you covered.

A pink Slip Inspection, or e-Safety Check as they are now known, ensures that vehicles more than five years old are considered safe to drive under NSW law. It is a requirement in New South Wales (as a condition of registration renewal) that vehicles five or more years old are regularly inspected and a report (previously the pink slip) issued. Clem Camage Motors e-Safety Checks are sent to the RTA electronically.

Light Vehicle Safety Check Inspections must be carried out on a range of light vehicles and a report (aka pink slip) issued before registration renewal is possible, usually as directed by the registration renewal certificate.

Clem Camage Motors regularly undertake e-SafetyCheck inspections on cars and light commercial vehicles under 5 tonnes (tare) in and around the Queanbeyan area. We also provide pink slip inspections for light trailers and caravans (250 kg - 2 tonnes Gross), motor cycles (inc sidecars) and buses weighing less than 2.5 tonne (Tare)

(Note: Commercial vehicles with power-operated brakes and Trailers/caravans with breakaway brakes must be inspected at an HVAIS. Your certificate of registration will state whether the vehicle requires a HVAIS or Heavy Vehicle Inspection Scheme (HVIS) inspection.

All work carried out by Clem Camage Motors is backed by the Repco Authorised Service Nationwide Warranty at over 450 locations Australia wide. You can rest assured that if you choose to have Clem Camage Motors conduct the needed repairs, all work will meet RMS requirements and is covered by the Repco Authorised Service Nationwide Warranty, available at over 400 Repco Authorised Service centres across Australia.

Following a successful Pink Slip / e-SafetyCheck inspection, Clem Camage Motors will forward your Light Vehicle Safety Check Inspection Report electronically to Roads & Maritime Services.

We can then assist you to purchase the mandatory Green Slip, ensuring CTP insurance requirements are met, after which you are able to register your vehicle as you normally would, (online, in person, by mail etc).

Should your vehicle happen to fail a Pink Slip / e-SafetyCheck Inspection, Clem Camage Motors will prepare a 'repairs needed report'. You can then request Clem Camage Motors undertake the required repairs or take it to a mechanic of your choosing to have them carried out, but they must be undertaken within 14 days, before the report expires.

If you return the vehicle to Clem Camage Motors within 14 days for the 2nd e-Safety Check, no additional fees will apply to have it rechecked. You are of course free to take the vehicle to any e-Safety Check station, but this will result in you being charged a new e-Safety Check fee by the mechanic conducting the vehicle inspection.