Take them! Sold my wife's Tahoe a while back and the guy that bought it ran 3 red light and I got the tickets. Took me a lot of running around and letter writing to get them cleared...
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If they haven't transferred the title, report it stolenOriginally posted by txdrhntr View PostComment
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I sold an Acura to a small private dealer. 2.5 YEARS later I get toll tickets on it. Talking to the state that said the car was still in my name!!!! Yes, I filled out all the paperwork @ the time but it did no good. State told me whether an individual or dealership, keep your plates.Comment
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Some of y'all aren't understand filling out that form doesn't guarantee you anything. Taking the plates does! Been there, done that.Comment
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I just went through this. Mine got up to 2200 that a "friend" I sold the truck to ram the charges up. I filled out a title transfer page. This saved me. Got a letter printed and sent to me from the TDMV.com and I sent this to the Houston toll road authority. They finally took all the charges out my name. A bill of sale may help too.Comment
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Remove the plates....or you will be getting love letters from txtag and city of Austin...Comment
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Txtag does not recognize that form, they said the plate was still in my name and I had to go to the txtag office and fill out some forms and the city of Austin doesn't look at the change of ownership forms either, 186.00 in parking violations I had to talk to a court clerk to get that cleared up...the buyer begged me to leave the plates on the truck when I sold it to him because he did not want to get pulled over and promised to get it registered the next Monday....that was a big mistake on my part that I will never do again.Originally posted by SharpStix View PostComment
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Yes, I would recommend removing the plates.Comment
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Glad I read this. I have never had problems before but I will never sell a car with plates again.Comment
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Yes.
Always.Comment
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I bought a new car 6 months ago and they took them off and gave them to me . They said it was policy to take all plates on all cars.Comment
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Since my last go round I had them pulled off of my wife's car that we just sold today.Comment
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Many years ago I stopped a motorcycle about 3:00AM and made a fairly routine check for stolen. It did not come back stolen but the registration had expired.
The driver claimed to have a bill of sale so I had the dispatcher call the claimed former owner and wake him up. Yep, he sold it but had never registered it in his name. Just by luck, he had the former owner's name that he bought it from and a phone number.
I had the dispatcher call and had the same routine, same answer. Yes, he bought it and sold it to the guy that sold it to the guy but never registered it. But.......... he had the name and number of the former owner.
I quit at the third owner and wrote the guy a citation. It never came back as stolen.
It is a bit harder now or you have to jump through a bit more hoops with having to show insurance and get the vehicle inspected before it can be registered and so on but that shell game has been going on forever.
Some of the used car companies that advertise, "No credit needed" are the worst. They sell a car that they do not own (title not in their name) and will not transfer the car to the new "owner" until it is paid in full from their weekly notes. They are sitting on the title from the former owner while not wanting to pay the transfer fee.
All of the above means that these cars get bought and sold all the time without title transfer even when a lawful and signed title was handed over at the point of sale. That is including at some dealerships and the last person that actually complied with the rules and got it registered in his name is always on the hook and having to clear his name.
About the only way to leave the tags on and be safe it to meet the person at the county tax office and sign the new title over to the other person right there. Then you won't have to worry about the other person getting around to it..... someday.... maybe.
In my opinion.Comment
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