On holiday and buying a car
#16
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Re: On holiday and buying a car
Yeah I think I know the one you are talking about!
I've been reading and if the car already has tags it would seem I just need to transfer the title? I may be wrong but that being said I think I would need a permanent address. I can insure it with state farm and geico and its not too expensive to rule it out.
When we head back to the UK I had planned on just leaving the car here or with my family in Canada, they have a lot of land and I doubt it would ever be used on "proper" roads.
I'll see what we end up doing, all part of the adventure
I've been reading and if the car already has tags it would seem I just need to transfer the title? I may be wrong but that being said I think I would need a permanent address. I can insure it with state farm and geico and its not too expensive to rule it out.
When we head back to the UK I had planned on just leaving the car here or with my family in Canada, they have a lot of land and I doubt it would ever be used on "proper" roads.
I'll see what we end up doing, all part of the adventure
You will be on holiday so why waste pressure time and have to cope with lots of hassle and red tape to probably not save any money?
Rent a car, drive and enjoy.
#17
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In the states I have experience of, to register a vehicle I need proof of an address, AND a state driving licence.
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Right ok I understand it now. So if you don't have an address here then you can't buy a car and drive it around? I'd have thought there must be a way to do that.
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Yeah I think I know the one you are talking about!
I've been reading and if the car already has tags it would seem I just need to transfer the title? I may be wrong but that being said I think I would need a permanent address. I can insure it with state farm and geico and its not too expensive to rule it out.
When we head back to the UK I had planned on just leaving the car here or with my family in Canada, they have a lot of land and I doubt it would ever be used on "proper" roads.
I'll see what we end up doing, all part of the adventure
I've been reading and if the car already has tags it would seem I just need to transfer the title? I may be wrong but that being said I think I would need a permanent address. I can insure it with state farm and geico and its not too expensive to rule it out.
When we head back to the UK I had planned on just leaving the car here or with my family in Canada, they have a lot of land and I doubt it would ever be used on "proper" roads.
I'll see what we end up doing, all part of the adventure
Also, it would be a hell of a hassle to import the car into Canada. You can't just leave it there.
#20
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You can buy it easily enough. You just couldn't get it road legal very easily, leaving you having to tow it or drive it illegally, which wouldn't be ideal.
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I have heard anecdotally of people doing it, but I have no idea how. It may not have been recently, because states have tightened up their driver licensing and vehicle registration processes after 9/11, when it was revealed that several of the hijackers had obtained Virginia licenses with no difficulty.
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I won't be driving a car that's not road legal, that's just a bad idea. I can understand having to have an address though.
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Yes he can, it is perfectly easy to drive a US registered car into Canada, he just can't sell it or register it there, at least not easily, but he was planning to abandon it on land owned by relatives.
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Yeah that would be the plan but we don't have a permanent address. With used cars why do people sell it and in the description give you the dates when that tags are good until? So to get it right, the person is registered on the car and when they sell both parties fill in the pink slip and the seller removes the tags and maybe the plates too, then the buyer has to go to the dmv and register the car in his name?
Cheers and sorry for being stupid!
Cheers and sorry for being stupid!
#25
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Tags and plates are just different terms for the same thing -- and yes, the plates are the property of the seller, as opposed to being always with the same car, so they are removed when the vehicle is sold and either handed in at the DMV or can be transferred to a new vehicle. The person buying the car has to start from scratch registering the car and getting new plates.
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We bought our truck pre owned with plates and tags just paid $15 at dmv for the transfer also had to pay tax and registration fee though, but the plates stayed with the vehicle
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Thats probably why I see ads with people saying when the tags are valid until then.
I'm going to go to the DMV and ask them
cheers
I'm going to go to the DMV and ask them
cheers
#29
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Why even bother?...a lot of potential hassle for minimum potential savings.
I had a quick look at Hertz. $1000 a month for a Dodge minivan, Ford Focus for less than $2000 Total for three months.
That's renting in San Francisco.
I had a quick look at Hertz. $1000 a month for a Dodge minivan, Ford Focus for less than $2000 Total for three months.
That's renting in San Francisco.
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Yeah for 2 months getting the car from LAX its $3600 total price, I've got this one with hertz and thats the best they can do. Thats returning it to LAX so not ideal, returning it in Canada is either unavailable on some cars or costs a lot on the vehicles available.