melissa
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Post by melissa on Oct 23, 2017 14:30:56 GMT
I don't buy new cars very often. Bought a new to me car 3 weeks ago. I am still driving with the temporary plates and registration. This seems like at least somewhat of a long time to me. I called the dealership to ask because I am going out of town next week and the temporary plates will be expired when I return home and I really do not want to a leave it in an airport parking lot with expired temporary plates. Got a call back from the salesman who made it sound like they didn't know yet if it would happen in the next few days. He did sound like he could get me new temporary plates on Friday if I need them.
I just don't understand why transferring the title and getting the registration takes so long. I think a week or two is plenty of time, but I don't really know. What's normal?
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Post by christine58 on Oct 23, 2017 14:32:43 GMT
Took me over a month...my temporary registration was good for 45 days. We don't get new plates here in NYS
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Post by valleyview on Oct 23, 2017 14:35:10 GMT
We had the same problem last year. It seems that the paperwork on a new car takes a lot longer than it used to, and we bought ours out of state, which is more paperwork.
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Post by melissa on Oct 23, 2017 14:37:17 GMT
Good to know! Thanks!
I am just transferring my old plates but the temporary ones stay on until the registration and title are complete.
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2017 14:43:22 GMT
we had to have our temporary plates renewed twice on our last car purchase before we got new plates
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Post by mom on Oct 23, 2017 14:51:14 GMT
It took about a week longer than what my temporary plates allowed for. I had to go back to the dealership and get another paper plate and used that for about a week.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 23, 2017 14:51:38 GMT
They do it so they can charge you $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and more. Seems like forever for me too. Did you ever notice that dealers have their own line at MVC? They are in and out, while we wait in line.
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Post by compeateropeator on Oct 23, 2017 14:57:49 GMT
Bummer, I hope you get your new plates soon. I always (the 4 times I have bought a new car  ) just transfer my old plate to the new car. It may be more expensive but I don’t have to learn a new number. My plate is from when I got my first car. My state has changed the number of letters/numbers and the configuration on our licenses plates so now I can’t give it up. Oh man the places it has seen and the memories it has made...  Sorry for the ramble. ETA - I see from another post that you are just transferring? Here when you transfer they just put your old plate on the new car. You have a temporary piece of paper until the new registration comes. |
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Post by tracylynn on Oct 23, 2017 14:59:49 GMT
Yep, I had my paper plate until just a day or two before it expired in December last year on my new car. Takes forever it seems.
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Post by cynipidae17 on Oct 23, 2017 15:00:32 GMT
I bought a new car on October 2nd and the new tabs (we kept our old plates) came this weekend.
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Post by katlady on Oct 23, 2017 15:06:37 GMT
In California new plates can take a month or two. Our temporary registration is good for 90 days. One car I had, it did take almost 3 months for me to get my plates. It was a super long time for some reason on that car. I hope you get yours soon!
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Post by compwalla on Oct 23, 2017 15:19:53 GMT
I've registered cars in six different states and they all work differently. So strange. In one state they hand you the new plates right when you buy the car. I don't even know how in the hell that works but that's how they do it. You drive off the lot with your new license plates. If you want a personalized plate you apply after and then trade in the plates you got when you bought it. In other states we got the paper temp license plate and the amount of time you had to wait for your real license plates/registration sticker varied wildly from a few days to "have to renew paper tags because the plates haven't yet arrived." I've had a personalized plate for so long now. I just transfer the plates. When I bought my current car, I had a paper tag for a bit until we could process the plate transfer. They wouldn't let me just move the old plates to the new car; I had to wait for new clean fresh license plates to arrive before I could put them on my new car. So how long will it take to get your tags? Who fucking knows? It's a crapshoot. *snort*  |
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Post by baylorgrad on Oct 23, 2017 15:25:16 GMT
When I got a new car a few years ago, I knew I was going to transfer the plates from my old one to the new one. At the dealership the day I picked up the car, the old plate was put on the new car, and I was given a receipt to show I had paid taxes/title/whatever. As soon as the new title was ready, I took the paperwork to the county courthouse (small town living!) and did a title/tag transfer. I don't think it took more than a week, maybe two total. This was in Kansas.
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Post by basketdiva on Oct 23, 2017 15:31:15 GMT
Here in Washington it takes almost a month to get the plates.
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Post by Meri-Lyn on Oct 23, 2017 15:32:15 GMT
With my last car, we transferred the tags from the old car to the new one. In Florida, it was pretty instantaneous, I drove off the lot with the old tags on the new car. It's been quite a while since I had to have a new tag, but it's about 30 days. The temp tag expired 30 days from purchase.
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Post by katlaw on Oct 23, 2017 15:34:17 GMT
What? I am completely baffled by this post. The place you buy the car is responsible for getting you new plates? Why is there a wait?
What about if you buy a used car from someone? How do you arrange the plate?
Here in Alberta, and I was naive enough to assume this was everywhere, when you buy a new vehicle you register the new vehicle and get a license plate immediately. You can do this at any licensed registry agent.
My DH and I bought a new truck in June. We went to the dealership, bought the truck and had a bill of sale.
We called our insurance company and they emailed us a copy of the insurance.
We went to AMA (AAA for the U.S. peas). We walked in, showed them the bill of sale. Registered the truck and they handed us a license plate.
We could have taken in the plate from our old truck and just transferred it over but DH wanted a new plate. The cost is exactly the same to get a new one or keep the old one.
At that point we can go back and pick up the truck.
We do not have temporary license plates. There is something we can get called an in-transit permit that can be used to get a vehicle from a place of sale to home or a registry agent.
It sounds much more complicated in the U.S. that it has to be.
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Post by Meri-Lyn on Oct 23, 2017 15:35:59 GMT
I always (the 4 times I have bought a new car ) just transfer my old plate to the new car. It may be more expensive but I don’t have to learn a new number. My plate is from when I got my first car. A great example of differences from one state to another. Here it's CHEAPER to just take the tag from one car to the next. If you want a new tag, it's about $150-$200 more. ETA: Eek, it's gone up. Just looked and a new tag is $225. |
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Post by pherena on Oct 23, 2017 16:36:26 GMT
It's been my experience (in NC) that it does take a good month to get it all done. Don't know why it takes that long. Hang in there!
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Post by maryannscraps on Oct 23, 2017 18:09:31 GMT
Huh, here in Massachusetts there is no such thing as temporary tags. You have to have the registration (and insurance) and plate in order to drive the car off the lot. You can go stand in line at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, but most dealerships have runners that will take care of it for you.
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Post by bc2ca on Oct 23, 2017 18:26:35 GMT
I don't buy new cars very often. Bought a new to me car 3 weeks ago. I am still driving with the temporary plates and registration. This seems like at least somewhat of a long time to me. I called the dealership to ask because I am going out of town next week and the temporary plates will be expired when I return home and I really do not want to a leave it in an airport parking lot with expired temporary plates. Got a call back from the salesman who made it sound like they didn't know yet if it would happen in the next few days. He did sound like he could get me new temporary plates on Friday if I need them. I just don't understand why transferring the title and getting the registration takes so long. I think a week or two is plenty of time, but I don't really know. What's normal? We ran into this when buying my last car. I was driving to Canada and wasn't sure I could cross the border with temporary plates. When I called the dealership I was told the paperwork had already been submitted to the DMV so there wasn't anything they could do to expedite it at that point. I did find out that the paperwork isn't processed daily. The dealership bundled and submitted their paperwork in batches, so mine might have sat for a week before going anywhere. Fortunately my plates came a couple of days before we hit the road. |
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Post by anniefb on Oct 23, 2017 18:45:46 GMT
Here in New Zealand when you buy a new car from a dealer it comes with plates and they attend to the ownership transfer for you and that usually only takes a few days or a week.
The only temporary plates we have are those a dealer is allowed to use before selling a car.
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Post by katlady on Oct 23, 2017 18:45:47 GMT
California doesn’t even give us paper plates. We just get a piece of paper we tape to the inside of our front windshield.
And if you buy a used car, the plates stay with the car.
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Post by katlady on Oct 23, 2017 18:48:06 GMT
Huh, here in Massachusetts there is no such thing as temporary tags. You have to have the registration (and insurance) and plate in order to drive the car off the lot. You can go stand in line at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, but most dealerships have runners that will take care of it for you. What if you buy a car when registration place is closed? Out here our dealerships are open till at least 8 or 9PM, and open on sundays too. The dealers here submit the paperwork to the DMV and we get our plates in the mail. |
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Post by maryannscraps on Oct 23, 2017 18:56:37 GMT
Huh, here in Massachusetts there is no such thing as temporary tags. You have to have the registration (and insurance) and plate in order to drive the car off the lot. You can go stand in line at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, but most dealerships have runners that will take care of it for you. What if you buy a car when registration place is closed? Out here our dealerships are open till at least 8 or 9PM, and open on sundays too. The dealers here submit the paperwork to the DMV and we get our plates in the mail. You have to wait to pick up the car. I don't know what the Registry hours are, but you can't drive the car off the lot without registration, insurance, and plates. |
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Post by Patter on Oct 23, 2017 19:00:38 GMT
Here if you buy a new car and transfer plates, you put the transferred plates on your car before leaving the dealership. Did it in 2015 with my new car and did it this year with hubby’s new car. The girls had temporary plates on their new cars when they got them but the plates came rather quickly (within a couple of weeks).
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Post by bc2ca on Oct 23, 2017 19:07:12 GMT
California doesn’t even give us paper plates. We just get a piece of paper we tape to the inside of our front windshield. And if you buy a used car, the plates stay with the car. Not always. I know mine & DS's came with the temporary registration/window tag and I can't remember if DD's came with plates. |
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Post by caangel on Oct 23, 2017 19:57:20 GMT
California doesn’t even give us paper plates. We just get a piece of paper we tape to the inside of our front windshield. And if you buy a used car, the plates stay with the car. Not always. I know mine & DS's came with the temporary registration/window tag and I can't remember if DD's came with plates. I'm curious about this too. When we sold cars the plates went with the cars. I'm planning on buying a friend's car when her new one arrives. But she has a personalized plate so I'm not sure how that will work. |
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Post by papersilly on Oct 23, 2017 20:03:04 GMT
i've seen some of my neighbors wait up to 6 months for their new plates and reg.
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Post by papersilly on Oct 23, 2017 20:07:37 GMT
Not always. I know mine & DS's came with the temporary registration/window tag and I can't remember if DD's came with plates. I'm curious about this too. When we sold cars the plates went with the cars. I'm planning on buying a friend's car when her new one arrives. But she has a personalized plate so I'm not sure how that will work. to my knowledge, here in California, if you have personalized plates, you can keep those even after you sell the car. i know because i've had personalized plates for years. when i traded in cars, the dealer always let me keep the plates and even when i sold cars private party, i keep the plates and reregister them on the new cars. i happen to have a set of plates in my trunk from a car i sold last year. DH has also had personalized plates and we've always kept them after getting rid of his cars. even if we didn't reregister the plates, we still kept them. |
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Oct 23, 2017 20:15:36 GMT
I bought my last car from a friend (my oldest son's godfather). He left his plates on the car for me to drive with until I got my own. That took me all of one business day and I promptly mailed his plate/registration card back to him.
Before that, I bought a car from one of my son's and did the same. It took me one day to go to DMV (Dept of Motor Vehicles) and get a new plate.
I don't understand why it takes dealers weeks and months to do what a private individual can do in a day. I'll give you a week... maybe two. But, damn. You can't get some flunky at the dealership down to the DMV within two weeks? We waited almost two months for the new plate on my husband's new truck. It just seems unreasonably long.
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) just transfer my old plate to the new car. It may be more expensive but I don’t have to learn a new number. My plate is from when I got my first car. 
Sorry for the ramble.
