Again, tables for car number plates are missing and there are hundreds of delayed procedures

With just one working day left until the end of September and even though 0km sales figures are on track to grow by almost 25% year-on-year, great figures are once again known. motorcycle patent delayswhich could leave the figures lower in a relationship that, especially in times of economic crisis, cars usually exceed two-wheelers.

it is second time in 60 days that a situation of this type occurs, as 40,077 motorcycle vehicles were registered in July against 42,892 automobiles. At that time, Argentine Chamber of Motorcycle Dealers (CADECOM)issued a press release denouncing that “the patent data for the month of July of the current year does not correspond to reality”, and then explained that “automotive property registries will not receive the initial registration procedures for motorcycle-vehicles 0 km, arguing that They are out of stock. In the last days of the month, an average of 2,300 motorcycles per day were supposed to be patented, and 800 were actually received.

The same statement emphasized that “the sole supplier is Mint and distributor ACARA (Car Dealers Association of the Argentine Republic). At the moment, the inputs do not appear and the situation directly affects the entire value chain of motorcycles, but fundamentally against the dealers who have to face the inconvenience of providing explanations to their customers without being able to provide a solution, with the aggravating factor of not knowing when and from whom will this solution arrive.”

Part of the measures taken by the national government to simplify and reduce the cost of the Car Registries was that Casa de la Moneda will no longer be the only supplier patented sheet metal inputs, but until there is another supplier, the situation is the same.

“This has been going on for a while. Not only license plates, but also forms and identification cards are missing. What happens is there are so many registers They don’t want to get stuck with inputs that they won’t use later if the government closes the registries, and it’s no coincidence that this is the second time since they started taking action in this regard. Registries do not buy patents because they know they will be shut down. There are operations that are more than a month old and still without patents. We have motorcycles in stores and cannot be picked up,” explained a businessman with several agencies in the provinces of Buenos Aires and La Pampa.

Other vendors believe that the problem is with the supply and not the registers. They even claim that “the problem was never solved and now it’s getting worse again. The answer ACARA gives is that when they have it, they will distribute itbut we still have no news. The problem is that motorcycle era“There are many clients who buy and have the units paid for without being able to pick them up from the agencies.”

“There are agencies that owe hundreds of procedures. What’s happening is that because you can now go to any registry and patent, it’s both buyers and agencies bypasses many offices and cannot get badges nowhere. I don’t think it’s a matter of registries, but more of a matter of higher ups, who makes them or who distributes them,” they said.

“At least two weeks without a single badge arriving to any registry of the province,” said the car registry in northern Argentina. “Have As of September 15, 470 patents have been applied for and they didn’t deliver a single one. Until recently they gave us piece by piece, never the whole order, but now nothing has arrived.’

IN ACARA replied to Infobae that There is a shortage of them, but it is not significantand that September’s patent numbers are very good, confirming a relatively normal material supply flow. At the end of the day, it was confirmed Many patents arrived at the registers this Friday and that it will allow a significant volume to be patented next Monday.

Despite this “good news,” senior executives CADECOM They assure that although the numbers are growing, the September records will not be correct because it will not be possible to register so many motorcycles in one or two days. “There are hundreds of procedures pending patents in registries and agencies,” they said.