It used to be that way here, but now they don’t care and start the penalties after 30 days regardless.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 29, 2020, at 4:33 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
