SC seems to be very lax on vehicle registration enforcement

"E90M3" (e90m3) 10/02/2020 at 09:34 • Filed to: None

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I spotted this Hyundai with a registration that expired in 2019 .

This is by no means a rare occurrence , I see a litany of expired plates on pretty much a daily basis. I can’t help it , I notice things like this. Before you ask, I did look to make sure that their tag was actually expired.

Got the VIN by entering the license plate into the trade mar car in on shift:

Once there, it was a quick jaunt over to the Greenville county tax website, where we see no recipt since 2017.

Also looked in Pickens county, nothing.

My bird IS the word > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 09:44

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I'm suprised. This should be real easy to enforce now with license plate readers.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 09:45

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I think a few months, given the pandemic, are fine in Ohio right now (you can do renewals online though). Three years is... ballsy.

facw > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 09:46

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Walking around parking lots in Houston, it seemed like around a quarter of cars had expired registration. It’s pretty crazy that in this age of ubiquitous license plate readers that such a thing is possible. But I guess the police have other things to do. And of course more important than the loss of revenue is the likelihood that if they aren’t registering it, it’s probably because it failed inspection or is uninsured, both of which have more negative implications for everyone else.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 09:46

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I have read that because of COVID quarantine, jurisdictions have lightened up on enforcing DMV stuff.

WilliamsSW > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 10:01

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While I had the GS350, Illinois stopped sending reminders about renewals to save postage or something. So it slipped my mind.

I drove the car around Chicago for an entire year on expired plates - probably 15,000 miles.  Right after the sticker hit 13 months (making the sticker color obviously expired), the Chicago PD pulled me over.  They were cool about it, but had to give me a ticket of course.

WilliamsSW > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/02/2020 at 10:02

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There’s something like a 90 day waiver here in Illinois.  Not sure if it’s still in effect, but I think it is.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WilliamsSW 10/02/2020 at 10:03

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I think the service from the California DMV has actually improved during COVID.

E90M3 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/02/2020 at 10:07

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They delayed the payments for a little, but this plate expired before COVID. 

E90M3 > facw 10/02/2020 at 10:09

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I forgot about the inspections in TX. I never ran a front plate on my M3 and never had an issue there. I also had the safety inspection expire on the 128i, but the registration was good until October, so I scraped off the expired sticker when I sold it to Beepi. 

E90M3 > My bird IS the word 10/02/2020 at 10:09

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Should be, but for whatever reason, it’s not enforced. 

WilliamsSW > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/02/2020 at 10:11

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The nice thing about the Illinois DMV is that there’s rarely a reason to go there. Hell, I can even renew my driver’s license on line most of the time now.  About the only reason to go is if you buy a used car from someone other than a dealer, or to get a license.

Been there twice in the last few years, to get plates for the Mercedes and once for the Lexus because they expired.

facw > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 10:23

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Texas got rid of the inspection stickers while I was living there. I had a huge pain removing mine, they were designed to break into a ton of little pieces when removed to keep people from transferring them.

jeepoftheseus > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 10:27

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My wife’s car was three years out of date when we got married. A few months after our wedding we got pulled over while I was doing about 12-13 over on I95. She was giving me an earful about always speeding while we were sitting there.  State trooper came back to the car, reached past me and handed her a ticket (!!!) never mentioned my speeding. It was glorious!

I’d just moved to NC and inspections don’t exist in SC so it never crossed my mind to look into her car as I don’t think I had switched my stuff over yet. She had bought it from a dealer and moved so she never got the letters from the DMV and didn’t know it was an annual thing. I still tease her regularly on this. 

E90M3 > facw 10/02/2020 at 10:29

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Wasn’t too bad on the 1, just used a razor blade and it came off alright.

facw > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 10:36

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I will admit I didn’t really have proper tools, I was using a combination of a Leatherman and my ice scraper (people mocked me for bringing a scraper to Texas, but it came in handy more than once, sometimes even for ice!)

66P1800inpieces > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 10:39

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In NJ we used to get stickers for our plates but they stopped that many years back. I am not sure why, maybe it was too much of a hassle. We have inspection every 2 years for non-new vehicles and get a new colored sticker that goes on the lower right of the windshield. If you fail, they put on a red sticker. Weirdly the red sticker looks just like the red part of the inspection sticker that cars from NY have so I feel like the police don’t bother enforcing it in the parts of the state bordering NY as it is too hard to tell the difference from a quick glance. 

DipodomysDeserti > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 10:46

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That one’s been expired for a while, but out here the DMV had been very late mailing out tags. They told my grandma not to worry about receiving hers, and it took me over a month to get a license plate.

koawaft1 > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 10:49

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Good to know. Moving there in a few months. May rearrange my to-do list. 

E90M3 > facw 10/02/2020 at 10:55

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I kept an ice scraper in my car as well when I was in TX, it actually did come in handy a couple times. 

gmanmtb > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 11:17

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I drove from oustside of Columbia, through Columbia, and into Charleston, a good two hours across the state with no plate and not so much as a strange look

MarquetteLa > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 11:26

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Yesterday I was behind a car with a Virginia plate (I’m in Colorado) that had 2015 tags on it.

Taylor Martin > E90M3 10/02/2020 at 18:15

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I’m in Florida and I recently had a similar experience with relaxed registration regulations.

My car is still in my dad’ s name, and still has a Maryland license, because getting it registered in Florida where I’m only going to school for another year and then moving... well it would be a hassle to say the least.

Well I took a road trip home for a week to see some pals and hang out at a beach in VA (very socially distanced, with some very “woke” youths who knew the dangers and were trying to celebrate their Senior Week in a safe way), Florida to Maryland, just under 2000 miles there and back. Great drive. Great trip.

Fast forward about two months later and I realize the sticker on my registration expired a month before I went on that trip... One cop on my rear who decided to scan my license plate and I could’ve been in some real doo doo... Got that fixed and now I’m good for a while.