Thanks Billnick. Reckon I am gonna slip the tail gate off and get the rail lowered so I can mount the number plate without any chance of it being covered what so ever. I reckon I might be able to fix an LED on the side just off the tailgate so I don't break the wires again. I will try do that tomorrow. Trying to find info on what I need as far as a compliance plate goes. Google is not telling me the actual year where trailers made before that date are fine without a compliance plate. Best I can work out is it was sometime in the 80s. My SA papers say it was manufactured in 87. But like I said before the number is a dodgy one that I don't reckon the inspection station will pass. According to the Tas Vehicle standards page it appears that I need a compliance plate before the inspection station can pass it.
On Google I seem to keep coming up with info saying that the manufacturer needs to fit the compliance plate. That will be a nightmare AFAIK Treg are not made in Tas. None of the Gov Regs seem to say the year it became compulsory.
Amount of money I'm putting into to make it compliant by replacing the brakes and wheels is looking like I may have been better off towing it back to SA, flogging it and buying a new one made in Tas....
Might be easier to just rego it as SA and if I get pulled over explain that I brought he trailer back less than three months ago......