Congrats, nice victory! Regarding the County for the taxes, make sure that you tell them that you bought the car in a state of disrepair and you could not drive it until you got it repaired. Bring the receipt(s) for the ignition switch maybe, so you have some evidence? In my case, when I bought the blue '95 E300, it took me several months or maybe a year to get that all sorted to the point it was roadworthy, so there was no fine / late payment penalty after I let the county tax desk know that. ------------- Max Charleston SC
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 5:11 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Well, VT sent me plates and some sort of registration certificate, I got > insurance so as far as I am concerned it is now "legal" to be on the > road. VT don't do titles on vehicles 15yo or older, so this one fell in > that range. I need to call the TitleMax guy tomorrow I guess, I just > haven't done it yet. I wonder if he cleared the lien so VT did not see > anything. Kaleb suggested just going to the DMV here and seeing if they > will take the VT registration certificate and turn it into a title, I > guess I could do that too but it might be less of a surprise to call TM > first. > > I should probably call the TM guy first to see if there will be some > issue, SCDMV are kinda PsITA about stuff sometimes, and I need to do it > before the 30days happens or they ding me on days it was not registered > here. I have to check about how they are doing things now, they were > only doing appointments before, and last time I went there I had to get > one like 3 weeks out. You first have to go to the County Assessor and > tax office (2 transactions) to get a title request form sorted out, I > think they calculate the tax, then hand that to the tax man and pay the > tax before you can go to the DMV. Fortunately the 2 county desks are in > the same room so that is easy enough (why they cannot do both at once at > one desk is beyond me), but then you have to go to the DMV which is > either 1) just down the road from the County offices and is a bit, um, > challenging, or 2) a new one in a less challenging location. I guess if > I went to the county that shows DMV I was trying to be good... > > --FT > > On 9/29/20 4:56 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > > Dude, that’s great. Gotta love the easy (and cheap!) fixes. > > > > Was this the one that had the lien on it? Did you ever get that sorted > out? > > > > -D > > > >> On Sep 29, 2020, at 4:44 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> > >> So if you recall I bought this 05 ML500 in kind of a shady deal, $400 > for the vehicle, $275 to spring it from jail where it had been towed. It > had a "Start Error" which would not allow it to start. I spent a lot of > time digging into it with the majick computer, and managed to clear the > Start Error message on the dash. Was not apparently the keys and code > chips as those all checked out OK, the DAS (Drive Authorization System, a > little loop antenna around the key switch that reads the chip in the keys) > appeared to be happy. I had pulled a DAS loop and module from a junker for > cheap, they are like $175 new, did not need to use it. > >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
