OT: DMV Shenanigans, Didn't release my liability... Options

[Brando]

Okay, so back in January I sold my 1988 944. Sold it for $1500 and I only paid $500 just a year and a half prior. Not bad!

Well, last Friday I get a letter in the mail from our very own 91 Toll Lanes. "Thanks for your interest in using the toll lanes, but you did so without being a subscriber... The toll violation etc..." Wait a minute, I never use the toll lanes. And what's this, I did it in my 1988 944? On April 19th?

So, the DMV never processed my release of liability. I just finished typing up a rebuttal and I still have a copy of my release of liability (to cover my ass). I guess I have to go through that crap all over again. New owner never registered it I guess...

Fucking new owners.

[byndbad914]

right there with you - I bought a couple wrecked Toyota pickups for $1100 from a fleet at a spot my mom worked at years ago - one crunched front one rear. The front one just had box damage, so I swapped the boxes and sold the now completely totaled one for $100 to a guy needing suspension parts.

Drove the truck a few months but the 4spd was too low on the freeway out there so sold it for $2700 cash. Not bad at all for a days work.

Then about 6mo. later I get a deliquent parking ticket notice and a notice of warrant issued for a ticket in Long Beach (I lived in Orange at the time). I hadn't even been in Long Beach let alone got a ticket. Then I realized it was in my Toyota pickup.

I had sent in my release of liability copy of the title when I sold it, but for some reason I had taken the time to make a copy of the docs based on a friend's strong advice. F'in CA DMV clearly goes out of there way to hire the absolutely dumbest people as this is only one instance of a dropped ball on the DMVs part.

But I mailed or faxed a copy of the release and it was all good - ticket and warrant were dropped. BUT, imagine if I had found out I had a warrant the wrong way! (out on date - say in HuntBeach where they pull you over for no reason and scope you out, then next thing "step outta the car"..) I know the DMV wouldn't have reimbursed for any of that!

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[skline]

Oh that's nothing, the car that is now Allan's, he got from Dan Root, who got it from me, which was transferred to a Washinton Title by Dan when he bought it from me, and then transferred back to a California title when Allan bought it, caused me to have to jump through hoops when they sent me a demand for registration fees, they even threatened to hold my income tax refunds and garnish my wages if I did not bring them current. What a joke.

[ConeDodger]

Don't even get me started. Two years ago, I was driving back from Sonoma Valley with my dog sitting happily in the front seat. I have the cruise set for 70 and I am just listening to the tunes. THEN I look and a CHP officer is cuddled up to my rear bumper with his lights dancing and chirping his siren. I do what most citizens do and pull over. He asks for license and registration which I give him and he asks if I know why he pulled me over. I have not got a clue which has to be a first for me! He tells me my registration has lapsed. OMG! That I was not expecting. I explain that there must be a mistake as I get a bill - pay a bill without any problem at all... He likes my dog and says he believes me and just gives me a fix-it ticket. I check my online checking service and sure enough, I did pay it... So I bring a copy and head down for DMV on Monday. My neighbor is an El Dorado County Sherrifs Deputy and he signs off the fix-it which I mail to Yolo County along with a check for $10.00 for a processing fee! Man I wish I could get into the freakin' Government business! I would be way rich!!!
Next thing you know I get a letter from Yolo County telling me I owe $1100 or some such crap. I call, they say whoops we probably have it. I tell them the check number and offer to fax it. She says she will check on it and call me back. No call. I figure she got it figured out right? Nope. Next letter, they call them "Courtesy Notices" says I owe just south of $1500. Now I am pissed. I call the court and demand a court date, and no shit I had to demand it because the snotty little public servant said it was too late for that. I went to court on the appointed date and explained to the judge and handed over my proof. She looked it over and dismissed it but get this. I still had to pay some freakin' court cost crap.
Bottom line is that they are idiots and make YOU pay for there mistakes. I wish that I could say that it was the last DMV mistake but there have been two more since then. IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!