Car registration.
 

I just renewed my wife's BMW registration at the super market at a vending machine/kiosk. God bless America. :):):) A far cry from years ago in California when they all expired at the same time. The line would go back and forth in the DMV building, out the door and around the building.:confused::mad:

Online registration link is on the dmv website.

How much was it ?

Blah, DMV charges a 2.1% processing fee to renew online.... I just go to AAA and get it taken care of

... outsourced to an external company.

What a racket.

A few dollars is close enough to gas money I reckoned.

Hmm. I have the opposite opinion of the CA DMV.

I used to renew registration online. But this fall, the DMV started charging extra for that convenience (hey, it's convenient for the DMV, too). It wasn't a problem when I renewed Mrs. Noah's registration at the end of summer, but apparently it is now. Well, the DMV doesn't really charge extra for online renewal, but they tack on a small surcharge to offset the credit card fees. But unlike property taxes, they don't offer an e-check option to do online transactions without an added surcharge.

So being a cheapskate, I mailed in the renewal + check a couple weeks ago, thinking that should be adequate time for them to receive the mail, and cash the check. But nothing ever happened. So yesterday, with my deadline looming, I made the dreaded trip to the DMV and the clerk confirmed that according to the computer system, no renewal had been received/processed. To avoid being delinquent (triggering late fees) I wrote another check, and when they both get cashed there's a form I can fill out (and send in) for reimbursement.

Clerk blamed the slowness to all the processing of Real ID's. She said it now takes 1.5 months for snail mail renewals.

Ive been doing on line in Indiana for years. Just did the Cayman and truck last week. Painless. I can even get my drivers license on line every other time.

I tried the DMV web site for two days and it wouldn't work.

Online for years. No fuss, no muss. Got all the registration cards and stickers in the mail within 4 days!

The DMV in Augusta is next door to the nearest Publix. I go on a Wednesday and get the 5% senior discount at Publix and use a CC at the DMV to get Amazon points. No CC fee at either place.

Unfortunately, the OTHER DMV, where I have to go to get a DL renewal, is way out on the south side and not very friendly.

I tried that. Just make sure to send it in 1.5 months before the deadline. Shoulda gone to AAA.

Stink, around here it's the same price as they don't want you going in and talking to a human that they have to pay.

And I'm loving my car being 40 years old. I get classic registration that is about quarter the price of the usual registration. I guess that's because 40 year old classics don't get driven very much :D

Got my renewal last year for the truck. It just went over six years so it said smog check needed. I paid the day I got the notice online. received my tags a week or two later, no check. Odd, but not complaining.

In Oklahoma they privatized tags and registration with "Tag agents" that have a regular office hours, and they just get a piece of the cost, same amount for any agent. They actually try to be pleasant, helpful, and fast since the customer can go to any other agent they want. There are 5 or 6 of them withing a few miles of me. Many dozens all over the city, and thousands all over the state.

I usually wait until I will be going past one at lunch time. I stop in and pay the 21 bucks for a tag renewal with a check, and I am out in 5 minutes or less. The tag agents do the driver's license and the other tasks done by the DMV.

Our DMV in Illinois is still stuck in 1975. They don't accept incoming mail and there is no mechanism to buy a new car out of state.

AZ has me at 900$ on a two year old truck. :o

Well, CA is at least $200 for any car, regardless of how old it is. :eek:

I have some friends in tx that said it's a flat 100$/yr.

I saw a 918 the other day in old town. New mexico plate. He wasn't going to pay the $10,000 az registration on it.

My '57 Isetta is $125 (but still, point taken - that's a lot for that little car)

Try $1,000 for registering my 2019 Winnebago, I might drive it 5,000 miles/year and mostly not in CA.

My Batman handles all that stuff for me.

In the state of Washington, an initiative was placed on the ballot to lower vehicle fees. It passed by a huge margin. The state and other tax districts are filing suit...essentially suing the voters...

Déjà vu...
 

That happened there years ago as well. Voters passed a flat $30/yr. reg. fee for all vehicles and immediately the tax-collectors started scheming to find loopholes and add money-grabbing "conditions" to it.
It didn't take long for that flat $30 to creep up to several hundred for many vehicles.

Here we passed a law that new taxes required more votes than they could get from just Democrats. The work around was that they call everything a fee, rather than a tax.

a healthy margin at least

the fees would be cut to $30/vehicle which means the roads would not get repaired

the suit is over whether it is constitutional or not

Funny stuff.

The Honolulu DMV charges are based on vehicle weight. We pay a gas tax like most states, but our legislature is looking for a way to tax the electric cars as they don't pay their fair share in road usage tax. So, we may go to a mileage based fee.

77 930 and 88 Cab - $300ish
04 X5 - $500
11 X3 - $440
14 535i - $400ish

Um, no. My 84 911 was $180 this year and my Camry was $193.

So what do they spend the gas tax money on? Mass transit?

I thought CA DMV rates were based on value?

A percentage of the value.

So according to the DMV, the Camry is worth more that the Porsche? Damn.

There's a catch and I don't know the answer. My 911 was gifted to me 20 years ago, so I didn't have a used sales price. I have no idea what the DMV uses to figure out a value in this case.

.. or the Camry's too high, 2007 Camry is $2-3K retail !

I totally forgot in my last post... I didn't pay for my Camry either when I took the keys in 2014. I'm going to guess that the DMV uses some low-ball number to base they registration off of in these cases. But I really don't know. I just know that both are under $200. :D

Here in SC: after 15 years the taxes are gone I just pay a $25 yearly tag fee. The 911 and 930 have the tag fee and no tax. Imagine my excitement when I got my Lotus bill yesterday, it turns 15 this year so we went from $600 last year to $25 this year. Merry Christmas to me!

GA did the same thing about 5 years ago, with the exception of trucks, trailers, and cars that you had bought more than 5 years previously. So for a while I was paying over $200 for my 2006 RSX Type S and $20 for my 2009 Cayenne Turbo S. Finally sold the RSX when I retired, and now my most expensive tag is for my car trailer. Every other vehicle is $20.

Yes, as widebody99 pointed out, the 0 or close to 0 value as determined by the DMV car is $125. I stand corrected :)

Your gifted Camry is high in comparison.

My registration and vehicle inspection in Texas is $74. Varies from county to county, but shouldn't be over $100 for a regular p/u or passenger car.

Online, by mail, in person. It is probably fastest if I walk to the tax assessor's office around the corner, but I can get reg at the grocery store as well if I'm there anyway. Inspection station not far away, 3 blocks.

How is your '84 911 $180, and my '87 930 is $150? :confused:

And how are my 26 year-old motorcycles still over $100?

It's a Targa. :cool: