$&@$! The dmv

"gmporschenut also a fan of hondas" (gmporschenut)
09/30/2015 at 16:27 • Filed to: None

this jerk guy with the backwards hat has been at the counter for 45 min. been here 2.5 hours and about to loose my mind.

Update: it still takes 30 minutes at the counter, to register 2 cars with the forms neatly filled out online.

DISCUSSION (23)

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/30/2015 at 16:31

Thank god almost everything vehicle related is done by post or online here. One of the few bits of good sense our government has had.

jester74 > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/30/2015 at 16:32

is this in NoVA?

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/30/2015 at 16:32

Uh get AAA and you can go to their office for most things, otherwise do the online appointment thingy!!

Svend > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
09/30/2015 at 16:39

Though even before the DVLA closed a lot of it’s offices it wasn’t really a hardship to pop in and get the odd licence plate transfer done.

Buy new plate online, get plates ordered, pop to DVLA for five to 30 minutes if busy, get form filled out and then go outside to swap the licence plates over.

But as you say it can be done online but quicker in person.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/30/2015 at 16:40

Ah the joys of small town life, DMV works relatively quick.

Brian, The Life of > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/30/2015 at 16:40

^^^This

duurtlang > Svend
09/30/2015 at 16:46

Here you just go to a book store or postal office or whatever business that has a contract with the government and you’re helped by a shop employee just as fast as every other costumer in the shop. Hand in paperwork plus ID, scribble down a signature, pay less than €10 and you’ve got the car in your name a minute after you walked in. We don’t do plate swaps here, plates stays stay with the car.

The only dedicated desk is for the import/export office. When you import a car yourself you will have to go to this special place. This, however, is something most people literally never do and even I have done it only twice.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Svend
09/30/2015 at 16:48

I only started driving just over a year ago so I’ve never experienced a DVLA office.

Svend > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
09/30/2015 at 16:54

They opened quite a few ‘local’ DVLA offices and then shut them down in 2013. Cutbacks.

But ye’, as you say by post or online is quick and easy.

The U.S. DMV astounds me and the whole paying government a tax on the amount you bought the car for in a private sale. Imagine if we did that in the U.K. there would be hell to pay.

deekster_caddy > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/30/2015 at 16:57

That looks like Massachusetts DMV.

And F* them. They take credit card for everything EXCEPT new registration and sales tax - for that you have to bring a check. Who the hell writes checks anymore? I had to go there, wait in line 1 hour, find out I had to come back with a check or cash, go to the bank, come back and wait in line another hour. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Ash78, voting early and often > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/30/2015 at 17:04

We usually just renew by mail, except once every 3-4 years there’s some law change and everyone has to show up and wait 3 hours in line just to show proof of insurance or citizenship or some new bullshit that was buried on the fourth rider of a 3,000-page bill that went through the state legislature.

fhrblig > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/30/2015 at 18:01

I get to do this soon. I’ve never had it take that long, though. My sympathies.

ranwhenparked > Svend
09/30/2015 at 18:31

And paying sales tax twice if you bought the car in a different state from where you registered it.

TahoeSTi > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/30/2015 at 18:55

You could always try sites that list the wait time before you go, like www.dmvappointments.org .....WTF is up with flat brim hats anywise.

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > jester74
09/30/2015 at 19:15

That does looks like one of the “newer” NoVA dmvs, and is precisely the reason I go out to the “country” to a small town dmv instead.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > TahoeSTi
09/30/2015 at 19:58

“Average wait time 1:16’, actual wait time 3 hours.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/30/2015 at 20:01

cant for plate registrations.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
09/30/2015 at 20:02

that makes too much sense to be adopted here.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > jester74
09/30/2015 at 20:02

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > deekster_caddy
09/30/2015 at 20:04

Close, CT. used to live in Mass and the RMV was surprisingly better run and organized. Shocked?!? I know me too.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
09/30/2015 at 20:07

unfortunately they started to consolidated the small DMVs, yet never expanded the ones that they kept.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/30/2015 at 21:25

Yeah only renewals or replacements I think at AAA but you can get an appointment online for anything.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/30/2015 at 23:05

Used that in Mass a couple times, walk in, do your stuff, out in 20 minutes.