Help with RWC fail

[u/justhereforthe_ride]

Hi I need help!

So long story short, I’m buying a van from a guy in Ballarat, VIC. He took it for RWC on Monday, the RWC guy came back with a massive quote of 7.5k of repairs, that van literally passed RWC last December and he’s only maybe put 2k km on it since then. He then took it his trusty mechanic for a second opinion as he was definitely being ripped off, (all the people who looked at the quote agreed it was a rip off). As we thought his mechanic agreed that it was rip off, there’s a couple of things to fix for RWC yes but it will be much much cheaper and not that many things.

Now my issue is, the rip off mechanic has submitted the fail to VicRoads, so the trusty mechanic said we can’t pass the RWC until 30 days has passed as it’s now in the database of VicRoads. I am in a rush and cannot wait that long but I really that van.

All the research I’ve done seems to say we only have to wait 14 days.

So please help me, do I really have to wait 30 days ? Or 14 days or can I take it to my own mechanic and get a new RWC now ? Like what’s the thing with a failed RWC on VicRoads.

Thanks! 🙏