In Minnesota, the plates stay with car when it’s sold.
Then when the buyer transfers the title over to themselves, new plates are issued.
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I don’t know what that is younpulledboffbthebinternet but the bottom line on the form says that it dies not change the title and they have 30 days to go in to dmv. Plus this was 15 to 20 years ago.
It is up to the buyer to transfer title, the seller should notify the DMV that the vehicle is out of their possession. If the seller does not record the sale with the DMV, the buyer could take as long as they want to transfer title.
The OP is selling the vehicle now.
In Minnesota, there’s a section on the vehicle title that the buyer must fill out before the sale can go thru.
This section is removed from the title and given to the seller.
The seller now has a record of the person who bought the vehicle.
So, if there’s any problems with the vehicle after it was sold, the seller is not responsible.
This happened once when I scrapped a vehicle.
The buyer never transferred the title, and was driving the car.
Then I started getting arrest warrants for unpaid parking tickets in a city I didn’t even live in.
I called, and informed them that car had been sold months ago.
I then gave them the information the seller provided on my section of the title.
I never heard anything more about it.
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Since it still drives, I would drive around to the dealers in your area and see what they will give you for it. If you are close to a large city, there are many nationwide dealer groups that will give you an online offer assuming you disclose the defects accurately. Keep in mind a dealer or wholesale buyer is either going to export it as is or fix the transmission on the cheap. So if is worth $5000 without the transmission issue, it might still be worth $4000 with the issue. It doesn’t make it a $500 car if the rest of the car is still clean and rust free. If you list it for sale yourself, it really depends how fast you want it gone. List it for $1500 if you want it gone tonight. Or start high and see what happens. It doesn’t really cost anything to hold on to it for a few weeks and see what people are generally willing to offer you.
CarMax will buy used vehicles, I’m not saying that you will get the price you want but you will sell it…
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In Virginia, the seller keeps the plates, if you are getting a replacement vehicle, those plates can be put on the new vehicle. You then have to notify your insurance company and the DMV.
Now, here is a hitch I’ve seen several times in the past when privately selling a vehicle. The Buyer does not want you to fill in the buyer’s name, address, or date of sale. And if you do this and the vehicle is involved in an accident or gets tickets, you can be drawn into a legal mess.
The DMV says not filling out title with the required information is much like writing a fake sales slip for $1.00 to avoid sales tax, it’s illegal…
In Virginia, what to do first… If you have just disposed of your vehicle (as in privately sold, junked, or donated…), you then need to contact the DMV that you no longer own the vehicle ( the DMV web site says to notify them either by phone or online…). Then you notify the Insurance company that you have disposed of the vehicle. The Insurance company notifies the DMV when insurance is dropped on a vehicle, and if you have not notified the DMV, they might suspend your driver’s license and vehicle registration privileges and then you’ve got some back-peddling to do…
As for getting a privately sold vehicle from the place of sale to the buyer’s location, well that’s a topic worth exploring by itself… Do you trust the buyer to return the plates, do you follow the buyer home, so many possibilities…
I imagine most private sales happen after hours and the DMV is not open… Actually how long does it take to get temporary plates…
My only experience is from 2000, when I was stationed in Arizona and my boss, also an Air Force member and a Texan resident bought a new Ford 250 Pickup. Everything was fine until the end when he was to drive away… To get the dealers temporary plates, the dealer had to submit the registration for Arizona Title, but my boss wanted Texas plates and a Texas registration on his truck… So he did not get to drive his truck home that night. The next day I took him to the DMV, he could not be issued a Temporary plate without submitting it for a title. They also would not let him submit for a Transport plate because he was not an Arizona resident… He ultimately got some type of plate from Texas that was good for 30-days… It took about 5-days before he drove the truck off the lot…
For a private-party sale, wouldn’t the the seller and buyer both go to the DMV together and let the DMV staff examine the documents and make sure all their title-transfer requirements have been completed?
I did some horse trading on my old RT about 26 years ago and it went to my friend in KY (200 miles away) and he finally sold it about a year ago but I never signed the tittle, he mailed the tittle to me and I signed it and mailed it back, the newest owner is happy go lucky with his new purchase with no problems… BTW the new owner bought it for personal use and to restore, but he also is a dealer and deals with tittles all the time…
Actually this is the best way and I did this once. We both went to the dmv and transfered the title. Then he paid the tax. Don’t recall if they issued new plates there or not but probably. Since he lived 15 miles away though we had to shuttle the cars. Then it’s just a matter of notifying the insurance company.
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Inconvenient, but still seems like the best approach. Here in Calif if you just show up at the DMV you’ll likely be waiting for hours, but if you make a reservation then if you show up at your scheduled appointment time, it takes maybe 10-20 minutes of waiting, then you’ll be talking to someone from the DMV staff. It’s quite possible however w/this sort of transaction and neither party experienced in doing it, something will be incomplete and you’ll both have to come back. A pain, but better to find that out sooner than later.
The next available appointment at the San Jose, CA DMV is two weeks from now, that is too long of a wait for a casual vehicle sale.
You won’t allow an inspector to perform an emission test on your car, but you are willing to spend a whole day at the DMV?
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