Transferring license plates

RatLabGuy

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I'm a little rusty on NC registration/plates.
If you buy a car that has current plates/inspection not due for several months, can you transfer the existing plates over to the new owner? Or do they have to stay w/ the person whose name is on teh registration (or within family, etc)?
 
Pretty sure the plates stay with the owner of said plates.
 
Crap. Have an option of transferring them?
If thats true, does that mean the vehicle has to be inspected immediately? Or does the inspection date carry forward to the new plates, once issued?
 
You'll get a year from the time of purchase to re-inspect/register. I just bought a DD last month that had 2 months left on its registration, now its not due until March '16.
 
Lurch830 said:
You'll get a year from the time of purchase to re-inspect/register. I just bought a DD last month that had 2 months left on its registration, now its not due until March '16.
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wtf? That seems really strange....
 
RatLabGuy said:
wtf? That seems really strange....
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Agreed, but I won't argue against it. Besides its a '95 so it only gets a safety inspection...
 
Pretty sure everything said so far is not 100% accurate. You can transfer the plate to the new owner for a fee, and it is good through whatever date is currently on the plate.
OR
The new owner can get their own plate which is good for 1 year. Then you can either turn in the tag, or transfer it to your own vehicle if you have an untagged one.

Somehow property tax plays into all this too.

There aren't really any other options to my knowledge.
 
^good catch, my comments were only if the PO kept their tag and you were issued a new one for said vehicle since that's all I've ever done.
 
Good, a transfer to new owner would be ideal.
My brother is selling a car to my nephew (different families)... he and the car are already here in MD (he's in college). So it would really suck to have to take it back right now just for inspection, so much easier if his mom can just file for the title transfer there, and we can just keep the tags on the car already and get an inspection later.

Interesting if thats true that you get the first year off, that means an old POS could just get passed around to a new owner every year and never actually pass...

Maryland is totally different. Inspection is required to get the new tags, no matter what. And its a super-thorough anal-raping-of-your-car kind of inspection. But only once.
 
I know this is similar but not same. But I think still applies. I just did some tag swapping. I just tried this for a normal car like 3 months ago (I'm the owner of the tag / old car / new car and all) but the lady looked at it and then took my tag and threw it underneath the counter into a pile of them (heard it go down) and explained that NC has new tags since I got that one. She kinda confiscated it? But she said it wasn't necessarily the pictures, just the paint. Said old tags had a bad fading issue so they swapped paint. I just bought the tag like 2 years ago so it was recent. I have no idea what she looked at exactly but she was pretty confident in her voice so I just took her word and bought a new tag.
On other hand, I WAS able to swap weighted tags last year and it saved me some money. Like $40 if I remember??? This was why I tried the normal car 3 months ago (OK, Bronco to Toyota). I always keep my tags and have a pile thinking I could use them as I need tags (after the weighted swap experience) but now the paint issue, I guess they will become wall art on the shop...
:rockon:
 
you cannot transfer tags to different owners, only different vehicles owned by the same person. If you're putting a plate on a vehicle you purchased out of state, it doesn't need an inspection for the first year. If you are putting a plate on a car from this state, it has to have been inspected in the previous 90 days. That's how it works.
 
yodaman88 said:
you cannot transfer tags to different owners, only different vehicles owned by the same person. If you're putting a plate on a vehicle you purchased out of state, it doesn't need an inspection for the first year. If you are putting a plate on a car from this state, it has to have been inspected in the previous 90 days. That's how it works.
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And if it hasn't been inspected recently?
It's an NC titled car being bought by another NC person. Since he's a college student he can keep using the NC tags etc under his mom's name.
Current tag date in 9/15.
 
yodaman88 said:
if it hasn't been inspected within the past 90 days it will need a new inspection, even if the tag on it is still current. This way the state gets more money
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Interesting...I've never had to do this
 
I have. When I first tagged my tacoma, it had been sitting for a while and had not been inspected in 1.5-2 years. I called the tag office before going down, and she said it had to pass inspection before she could give me a tag.
 
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