Anyone live in Nevada? Issue with classic vehicle registration.

When I registered the car i gave them KM and they converted to miles and put the miles in the database. Fast forward a year later I mail in the odometer sheet in order to reregister the car witht he KM on it and put KM next to the number and explain on the sheet that the odometer is in KM to make it clear. I get a letter back basically saying that "if the car is converted to KM you need to go to smog lab". The thing is it wasn't converter to KM it always was. The smog lab people told me the car was registered in miles at like 80k something (car is at 139k KM). He said that the database needs to reflect the number that is on the odometer not a conversion. Which pisses me off because tha'ts how the DMV people put it in, converted.

So now I have to smog the car to get it registered, which i refuse to do. The other thing is they said I have to turn in my plates and re register in 90 days as a classic vehicle again.

I sent a 2nd mailing into the DMV in with the odometer reading in miles to try and avoid this. Hopefully that works.

All I know is this is annoying. How many cars this old are on the road? Who cares about how many miles I drove and if I had to smog it. In fact the state doesn't if it's not clark county. Pisses me off.

Anyone have any other ideas on what I can do? I'm guessing i'm going to have to turn in these plates and just wait 90 days and reapply for classic vehicle registration.

move to MN, where registering an old car is as easy as dropping of $42 at the local deputy registrar's office.

Are you going into the DMV? I have noticed that what they want, what questions they ask, seems to be pretty dependent on who you talk to. Especially with old cars. You might try again and play nice and ignorant (of what you may have learned).

aircooled wrote: Are you going into the DMV? I have noticed that what they want, what questions they ask, seems to be pretty dependent on who you talk to. Especially with old cars. You might try again and play nice and ignorant (of what you may have learned).

I was trying to do mail reregistration to avoid the DMV probably should have just sucked it up and gone probably.

Would registering it outside Clark county be an option? Only Clark and Washoe counties require smog, after all.

lesson here - if mailing in, convert it for them and just write the miles. if going in person convert it for them before you go and just tell them the miles?

patgizz wrote: lesson here - if mailing in, convert it for them and just write the miles. if going in person convert it for them before you go and just tell them the miles?

Pretty much this for me.

I don't trust them to convert to KM to begin with so when I re-register i'm going to make sure they put it into miles again and just remember to do this next time i do this.

Most likely going in in-person would solve any misunderstandings. Face to face communication is ALWAYS the best.

In my experiences with my local DMV the people behind the counter have been very receptive and courteous.

My neighbor had an issue when his boat and trailer were impounded for illegal parking. When he bought the boat he registered it in his name, but forgot to register the trailer. When he tried to complete the registration at the DMV he had no luck finding the previous owner. The DMV employee he was dealing with insisted that he go out to the parking lot, find the old owner and have him sign the bill of sale, then come back in and finish the transaction. After arguing with the employee for a few minutes about not knowing how to contact the seller he finally realized what they were implying. So he went out to the parking lot and got the paperwork signed

I've had similar experiences too. It makes their job easier.

Cone_Junkie wrote: Most likely going in in-person would solve any misunderstandings. Face to face communication is ALWAYS the best. In my experiences with my local DMV the people behind the counter have been very receptive and courteous. My neighbor had an issue when his boat and trailer were impounded for illegal parking. When he bought the boat he registered it in his name, but forgot to register the trailer. When he tried to complete the registration at the DMV he had no luck finding the previous owner. The DMV employee he was dealing with insisted that he go out to the parking lot, find the old owner and have him sign the bill of sale, then come back in and finish the transaction. After arguing with the employee for a few minutes about not knowing how to contact the seller he finally realized what they were implying. So he went out to the parking lot and got the paperwork signed I've had similar experiences too. It makes their job easier.

Brillant.

In my experience its all about which one you go to. I search for the places that are in small towns that are not busy. Be nice, and they treat me well. The downtown ones can be a nasty mess.

In reply to NOHOME:

Brilliant act of perjury is more like it....

yamaha wrote: In reply to NOHOME: Brilliant act of perjury is more like it....

not quite the word you're looking for.

i've had title bureau and bmv workers imply the same thing, or "you need a signed power of attorney paper because it's in your spouse's name, go out to the car and have her sign this slip and come back in"

yamaha wrote: In reply to NOHOME: Brilliant act of perjury is more like it....

Yep. Because he bought the boat but obviously stole the trailer it was sitting on.

Cone_Junkie wrote:

yamaha wrote: In reply to NOHOME: Brilliant act of perjury is more like it....

Yep. Because he bought the boat but obviously stole the trailer it was sitting on.

I've always wonder why there are listings for boats without trailers, now I know

If he was truly just filling in gaps for misplaced paperwork, the he probably saved himself and the previous owner some hassle by just meeting him in the parking lot to sign the forms.

If there was more to it than paperwork, perjury would be only a small piece of crime.

I'll have to remember to come here when I need to find someone who has not sinned to throw the first stone...

TIL GRM doesn't know what perjury means.

Cone_Junkie wrote: ...The DMV employee he was dealing with insisted that he go out to the parking lot, find the old owner and have him sign the bill of sale, then come back in and finish the transaction. After arguing with the employee for a few minutes about not knowing how to contact the seller he finally realized what they were implying.

Yes. As well good tag/title agencies, if such things exist in a particular state.

I've had similar experiences, where the home office officials insisted I couldn't do X. Get to a helpful agent/individual elsewhere, and solved the problem.

As a simple example, the down-town PA DCNR offical insisted my snowmobile could never be registered to ride in PA. Visit a local and helpful agent, and now it is registered.

Bonus fun was listening to the local agent on the phone with the same down-town official who told me it couldn't be done. The downtown official recognized my name and was very loudly and angrily telling the local agent all the reasons it couldn't be done. Local agent hung up on the down-town offical in mid rant and simply registered and tagged my snowmobile. Been fine for all the following years.

And yes, the local agent did have to send me to the parking lot. And like your friend, I forgot for a moment that the guy I bought the snowmobile from was sitting in my car waiting for me.

If a title request is not disputed, there is no fraud in signing paperwork.

I have no problems acting as an agent for the seller.....

In reply to yamaha:

It's called plausible deniability.

Didn't see the signing and it's signed now so all the boxes checked.