You are selling a registered vehicle
The certificate has to be issued within 30 days of the sale.
VicRoads Licensed Vehicle Tester
Roadworthy certificates, done here
Licensed to inspect and to issue the certificate — so if the inspection finds work, it gets fixed in the same workshop instead of sending you somewhere else and starting again.
One workshop, start to finish
J & L is a VicRoads Licensed Vehicle Tester, which means roadworthy inspections and the certificates themselves are issued in-house at Ravenhall rather than referred elsewhere. If the inspection finds work, it is repaired in the same workshop on the same visit.
When you need one
You are re-registering an unregistered vehicle
Including a car that has been off the road for a while.
You are bringing a vehicle in from interstate
Transferring registration into Victoria needs one.
The 30-day rule is the current VicRoads requirement — worth confirming against vicroads.vic.gov.au before you rely on it for a sale date.
What gets checked — and what doesn’t
A Victorian Certificate of Roadworthiness checks the items that affect safe road use: tyres and wheels, brakes, steering and suspension, seats and seatbelts, lights and reflectors, windscreen and windows, and the vehicle's structure and body. It is not a mechanical condition report and it is not a substitute for a pre-purchase inspection — a car can pass a roadworthy and still need work. A certificate is required when selling a registered vehicle, re-registering an unregistered one, or transferring a vehicle into Victoria from interstate.
Worth being clear about: a roadworthy is a safety check, not a condition report. A car can pass and still need work. If you want to know what a vehicle is really like before you buy it, that is a different inspection — ask for one.
Book a roadworthy
Cars, 4WDs, trailers, floats, caravans and light trucks. Ring and we will tell you what it needs.