Showing posts with label car registration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label car registration. Show all posts

Car: Annual car registration renewal made easy with AAP

January 07, 2015

The season of spending is not yet done and often extends into the New Year especially when you have a car with a license plate ending with "1".  That's because come January you're expected to renew your vehicle's annual registration.  Well, Stanley does have a license plate ending in "1" so here we go.  The good thing is that we have an AAP (Automobile Association Philippines) membership which means we are eligible to benefit from their LTO Registration Assistance service for a minimum fee (P300).





Just a brief guide though for car owners, you can't just renew your car's registration anytime you want.  There is a proper schedule that you should follow.  You need to know the week and the month of your scheduled renewal.  The middle number of your license plate reflects the week while your last number reflects the month.  Below is a guide depending on your license plate numbers.


For example, Stanley's license numbers are "791" so that means with a middle number of "9", his corresponding week is on the 4th week.  With a last number of "1", his corresponding month is January.  That means, ideally, we have to register him on the 4th week of January.

So now that we got that out of the way, let's get on with the car registration renewal through AAP.

Step 1.  Pass a smoking emission test.  This is a a requirement.  You need to bring the result with you to the AAP.

Every year, we go to the Smog Check Smoke Emission Testing Center along Aurora Boulevard because it's accredited by the AAP.  It's behind the LTO in San Juan, just before you cross the bridge along Aurora Boulevard.   It's a very simple process, you just park your car, they test it, they take a picture of the process as proof, you pay for the procedure, receive the results and OR, and you're done.  The total cost was P480 but we only paid P430 because we got an AAP discount.





Step 2. Bring the following documents to the AAP Office in Aurora Boulevard.  They're located at 682 Aurora Boulevard, Quezon City, after Broadway Centrum, before the Gilmore computer shops and Robinsons Magnolia.


• Smoke Emission Test with passing results with the original receipt of payment
• Photocopy of Certificate of Registration
• Original copy of the previous year’s LTO Registration O.R.
• Original and photocopy of TPL Insurance Certificate of Cover (alternatively, you may get these from AAP)








They have a small but comfortable office.  Dylan and I just relaxed on their couch and we were offered our choice of coffee and chocolate from their dispenser. :) Patrick just brought the documents over to one of the staff and they just processed everything.  After, they gave us a computation of the total fees which amounted to P6,014.50, including the service fee and the fees for the new license plates to be issued this year.  

Facing the Office
The Cashier






After all that, we went downstairs to where Stanley was parked for the stenciling of the engine and chassis numbers, if I'm not mistaken.  



The whole process took less than 30 minutes.  From previous experience, we also received text notices from them regarding the status of the registration with LTO.  Before (in 2014), it took about 2 weeks for the registration stickers to be available.  Now, we'll see how long it will take.  The new license plates are to be expected 2 months after, that's what they said.

I hope you find this information useful.  If you want more information about the AAP LTO Registration Assistance, please visit their site here.  If you want to know more about being a member of the AAP, click here.

Car: Renewing our Car Registration


It's January again and it's time for Stanley's annual car registration.   Normally, we'd cringe from the thought of having to process such a tedious requirement because of the notorious lines at the Land Transportation Office (LTO).  But it's thanks to the Automobile Association of the Philippines (AAP) of which we're a member, that we just breeze through Stanley's annual car registration.

Here are the things that we needed to prepare before we went to the AAP Office at 682 Aurora Boulevard, San Juan, Metro Manila.

1.  The Smoke Emission Test with passing result and Original Receipt of Payment.  We went through our Smoke Emission Test at one of the smoke emission testing centers near the LTO along Aurora Boulevard.  As an AAP member, we got a discount of 15% since we went to an authorized testing center.  I think we paid only less than P400 for the test.

2.  Photocopy of Certificate of Registration


3.  Original Copy of the Previous Year's Official Receipt of the LTO Registration (we got this from AAP too)


4.  Original and Photocopy of the Certificate of Cover


So since we had all these documents before hand, the only thing we needed to do was get the Smoke Emission Test results (which only took about 5 minutes) and then proceeded to the AAP which was about 15 minutes away.

There was no one else in the office so the process took less than 15 minutes.  We just submitted the documents and paid our annual car registration fee, which amounted to almost P6000 (we have a Subaru Legacy station wagon), including the insurance.  We had to wait for about 5 days to get our new Official Receipt of Registration and the registration sticker.

*** UPDATE:

We got our registration stickers on January 28th.  It was available about a week after we registered Stanley but it was the only time Patrick was able to go on leave.

If you want to know more about LTO Car registration services of AAP, check out their page:  http://www.aaphilippines.org/products.aspx?pages=lto-registration-assistance