SOS rant

daveg

daveg

Club Member
So, when they start screwing us on license plates?

I sold a vehicle. A week later I found something I liked and picked it up. I brought the plate from my previous vehicle up with me which does not expire for 6 months. I was told the plate was not transferable once the new owner of the previous vehicle, titled said vehicle. They said at that point the plate was "orphaned".

I think this is complete bullshit since the plate didn't expire for 6 months. I got hit with a $55 plate fee for something that will expire in 6 months. I am not impressed at all.
 
I thought you had to pay the difference to transfer the plate for the prorated year. I did know you can't go register a super cheap beater with low MSRP (which is used to calculate tab fees up to a certain age) then transfer that to some new costly car to avoid the more expensive tabs.
 
mustangmike6996 said:
I thought you had to pay the difference to transfer the plate for the prorated year. I did know you can't go register a super cheap beater with low MSRP (which is used to calculate tab fees up to a certain age) then transfer that to some new costly car to avoid the more expensive tabs.
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you use to be able to do this lol.
 
bought a new car yesterday... salesman started to give me the blah blah about this ... but the transfer was only $25 but it was the extra paperwork that he didn't want to do
 
Sorry to hear. I moved to Florida recently and its crazy what they charge down here also.... For two new Fla drivers licenses-wife and I- 3 plates, new titles, registration for three cars, Chrysler town & country, cobra mustang, G8gt. almost 2 grand... Oh yeah and an all species fishing license.
 
This is something new. I have always flipped cars. Never heard a plate being dead when you pay for one year of registration.

It would have really made me sick if I sold the vehicle just after renewing my plate on my birthday and had a brand new plate that they did that to. It was seriously less than 5 days since I sold the first car to the time I tried to transfer the plate.
 
daveg said:
This is something new. I have always flipped cars. Never heard a plate being dead when you pay for one year of registration.

It would have really made me sick if I sold the vehicle just after renewing my plate on my birthday and had a brand new plate that they did that to. It was seriously less than 5 days since I sold the first car to the time I tried to transfer the plate.
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Hmmm, not heard of this either. I wonder if now we have to
transfer our old plate to our new car before we sell the old
one to avoid this new rip-off?
 
^ It certainly would make for less of a headache in the future for private party transactions.

Ever since the electronic insurance verification system came online, the SOS has a MUCH easier (read: faster/quicker) time at determining which plates/VINs are in "good standing" in their system and those that are "questionable" or "lacking" (either due to a change in ownership, lapse in insurance coverage, other factors, etc, etc).
 
4Gas$ said:
Hmmm, not heard of this either. I wonder if now we have to
transfer our old plate to our new car before we sell the old
one to avoid this new rip-off?
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For me personally, this would be difficult. Most times, I need the old vehicle sold to purchase new vehicle.

Also, arranging test drives would be greater risk as vehicle is no longer plated/ insured most likely.
 
So, dumb question, not fully related to the original topic but close enough.

I bought a parts truck to fix mine. I have a title and everything signed over to me, but I haven't transferred it it yet (just bought it ~1 week ago). When I am done with it in the near future I plan to send it to the junkyard. I assume I'll have to have it titled in my name for the yard to take it, right?
 
YLWFVR said:
What’s the issue? Been putting my car in storage for years, 6 months out of the year.
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I believe the issue is that SOS checks for active (non-storage) insurance when renewing registration. If they see just storage, they can deny the renewal. Or something like that, I'm not entirely sure
 
If you have storage around the time that you have to renew your plate then the form that comes in the mail wont have a pin number on it. That means you can't register at the little kiosk and have to show proof of registration at the counter to renew. Happened to me once and also another time when the insurance company had my vin number wrong.
 
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