IPOH: The Perak Motor and Credit Association has urged Puspakom to extend its approval certificate for transfer of vehicle ownership from the present two weeks to a month.

Its chairman Datuk Cheng Yit Weng said the certificate was only awarded by Puspakom for vehicles which passed its inspection.

"However, the certificate is only valid for two weeks. By the time we are done with the hire purchase procedure, the certificate will be invalid," he said Monday, adding that the vehicle would need to undergo inspection again.

Speaking to reporters here after meeting Puspakom Gopeng branch head Hamdan Shaharin to air the association's grouses, Cheng explained that the certificate was needed to transfer vehicle ownership.

Association members, Cheng noted, had received a lot of brickbats from their customers on the need to reapply the certificate once it expires.

Cheng noted that that the association had raised the problem to the Transport Ministry through the Federation of Motor and Credit Companies Association Malaysia last year but to date, there had been no news.