How does one execute the sale of a used car? They are bringing by a cashiers check tonight. Do I keep my plates? Is there someplace I can print out a 30 day tag for them or is that their problem? Help!
Posted by Lost Ashes (Member # 6745) on :
The plates are yours, don't give them out. You should give them a bill of sale or receipt for the car, along with the title so that they can take and it get it registered in their name. Some states may require that it be notorized first. Then they can get a license plate at their leisure.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
It is their problem....DON'T let them use your plates.
If they are going somewhere close, you could drive it FOR them (don't let them drive, you are still liable, or could be at any rate) to a location, or let them keep it at your place for a day of two, until they can go to the registry and get plates of your own.
You have to turn those paltes in, it's your responsibility.
Kwea
Posted by AmkaProblemka (Member # 6495) on :
This varies from state to state, but in Utah you keep your plates, they are registered to you and are not transferable to another person, though you can transfer them to another car.
The bill of sale one will be useful.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Waugh! Dagonee, I swear I typed in www.dmv.utah.gov. I guess I can't have the www in there and expect it to work. Nothing like having someone in VA beat me to my own state's site. Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
I have sold a car for $25 (the guy who came to tow it to the junkyard wanted it, did the tow for free, and I signed the title over to him), then found out four years & two states later that later that:
1) it had never been re-registered, but 2) it had had been abandoned at the State Fairgrounds, whose proprietors eventually 3) had it towed away for storage, and 4) I now owed ~$850 in storage fee, because 5) I was the last owner of record, and 6) I was unable to find the receipt, and certainly 7) I couldn't positively identify the guy who took it.
Be careful. I don't have specific advice, though.
[The links above look useful. Cool. It never occured to me way back then that someone else might screw me over if it was convenient for them. Naivete. ]
[ September 15, 2004, 08:39 PM: Message edited by: Sara Sasse ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Sara, there's a great story about something like this in Bruce Campbell's "If Chins COuld Kill."
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
No way!
Honest, it really did happen to me, not some friend of a cousin's boyfriend.
1984-ish Gold Chevy Cavalier with sunroof, something like 15 years old, with a cracked engine block. He had a replacement engine lined up. I did make him sign a piece of paper that he understood it was leaking carbon monoxide into the interior (I found out when my face kept going cherry red with screaming headaches -- I was in med school, so it was fairly easy to figure out from the symptom. Kept driving it for a year, though, just with the windows down, even in the winter. No money to replace it.) But I thought that would be enough to impress the seriousness on him, which is all I was really concerned with, and after two moves, I'd lost the paper.
Bummer. There's always a savage pleasure in paying what I owe, though -- it feels good to step up to the plate and do the honorable thing. I paid it as soon as I was contacted. Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Heh heh. I'm actually selling it for my sister. My baby sister knows she's supposed to keep the plates, but me, I'm wondering if she wants them for a momento. D'oh!
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Sara,
As for the gold 1984 Cav, the sunroof still leaks, it is on its third transmission, and I just put a set of $99 tires on it for good measure. It burns oil, the CO still fumigates the interior to ensure an insect-free cabin, and pulls a little to the right.
Otherwise, it purrs like a kitten!
P.S. Thanks for storing it for me!
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j/k
[ September 15, 2004, 11:57 PM: Message edited by: Alucard... ]
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I know I posted it here, but my car was totaled in an accident where I spun out on ice a couple of years ago. I signed the title over to the insurance agency. Somehow though the wrecking contractor didn't file the paperwork correctly when they resold it. I started getting delinquent parking tickets from the City of Chicago. I grew more and more Irate with the insurance company. But what really took the cake was the notice that "my" car had been impounded by the City of Chicago and I needed to pay $400 in fees. The reason it was impounded? "Solicitation of Prostitution"
I went up the chain of command at the insurance company real quick on that one, and it got taken care of in a few days.
AJ (and it really wasn't my insurance company's fault, their contractor was lying to them.)
[ September 16, 2004, 12:04 AM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I had a truck inpounded for not being regestered, and 4 years later someone got in an accident and I got contacted.
DON'T let them have the plates!
And keep the reciept, and a copy of the signed-over title, if you can.
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