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> I had assumed the reasonable thing would occur; the plates would expire and become suspended, a non-issue for a chassis sawz-alled to bits and sold for scrap.
by josefx 6y ago
> I had assumed the reasonable thing would occur; the plates would expire and become suspended, a non-issue for a chassis sawz-alled to bits and sold for scrap.
That expectation seems to be at odds with everything I as a non car owner remember from my parents selling their cars. As far as I can find there often is no explicit requirement to deregister the car/plates, but with the exact problem you ran into: Even if everything ended up suspended the registration would still point at you, with a very good chance that you end up liable.
> hadn't passed a smog test that year.
Among the top reasons for people driving around with an expired registration apparently. So the police found exactly what it expected when it saw that expired registration with your name on it.
- pengaru 6y ago> So the police found exactly what it expected when it saw that expired registration with your name on it. What are you talking about? I wasn't driving a vehicle with expired tags, the vehicle in my name triggering the DL suspension had been DIY scrapped and the plates destroyed. I was pulled over for speeding, driving a friend's car on a road trip during my turn at the wheel. Reading comprehension fail...
- josefx 6y ago> and the plates destroyed Can you point out where you wrote that in your previous comment?
- pengaru 6y ago"a non-issue for a chassis sawz-alled to bits and sold for scrap." What the hell else is this supposed to mean? That I both scrapped the car and was driving around with the plates for some reason?
- oblio 6y agoWhat even is "sawz-alled"?
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoSawzall is the Kleenex of reciprocating saws. It can be used as a noun or a verb the same way most "saw" based compound words can.
- oblio 6y agoI'd say that Kleenex has greater global brand recognition, in this case :-) Plus, wouldn't it be spelled "sawzall-ed" (though, more likely, just "sawzalled")?
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>That expectation seems to be at odds with everything I as a non car owner remember from my parents selling their cars. Selling and letting registration lapse are two very different things. Most states only criminalize driving a car with a expired registration. I have half a dozen cars with expired registration to my name and it's a non issue as long as I don't get pulled over driving them (which would be really hard to do since they either aren't complete enough to be drive-able or have long since been turned into tin cans).