Learnt and experienced something today. My first (hopefully the last) date with PUSPAKOM. If I’m not mistaken with effective from 1 Aug 2007 (correct me if I am wrong), all transfer of ownership of vehicles (you are to sell your car inclusive) must be certified by PUSPAKOM. I didn’t know that and only got to know that after my transfer of ownership was rejected by JPJ due to the absence of PUSPAKOM’s certification.

 

So went to GOOGLE to find where’s the nearest PUSPAKOM. And you CAN find it using GOOGLE and it is a very very flashy website. What I impressed me though was the detailed map of all the PUSPAKOM branches around Malaysia to direct you to find them. There’s one in Bangi near the POS LAJU collection centre, so decided to go to that one.

 

Reached PUSPAKOM at 10am. Wow, the queue is already building. The procedure is actually quite simple. Show them your car registration card and fill up two forms. Queue your car. I queued for almost 90 minutes. When it was my turn, I need to pay RM30 of processing and certification fees. After paying, give the receipt and all the needed documentation to the officers. He checked the engine, checked whether the ensure the car is not “kereta potong”. He checked underneath the car. All these procedures took about 5 minutes only! Then I was asked to wait for the issuance of the certification. That took me about 15 minutes. “LULUS” was stamped on the certificate. Yay! I can do the ownership transfer. So, as conclusion, I waited for 90 minutes, officers checked for 5 minutes and issuance of certification for 15 minutes. 5 minutes! 5 minutes only! Total “wasted” time is 105 minutes.

 

Before I left, I had a view of the queue of the cars and it stretched for about 600m. Thank God, I was there early. If not, I think my “wasted” time would be >> 105 minutes. Well, that’s my morning date with PUSPAKOM. On the bright side, I did get to experience part of car selling procedure.