chronozon

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So I'm in south Fla visiting parents for the weekend, took them out to dinner with the Evo tonight and got pulled over by a cruiser 5 minutes away from the house on the way back. I was doing 45 in a 45 zone and was wondering "What the hell...". We pulled into a gas station and after the officer checked my title/license, he approached with a REALLY nice tone, in fact before this I was sure cops are not capable of doing that. First he assured me my driving was good, and then asked if I own another car (no), if I knew my tag was expired (I know it's not), or have I recently purchased the car (no), I wasn't sure where he was going with all that, and it turns out the tag on my car was indeed under my name but it wasn't associated with a car when he ran it through the computer, I asked him how is that possible and he doesn't know the answer. I had the car for about 9 months and I was never pulled over for anything, apparently I was sorta driving without a tag all this time. So he said he's not gonna issue me a ticket since it was a mistake made by someone else and told me to go by a DMV asap and get this straighted out.

This is the weirdest thing I've heard, I bought the car brand new and it was a new tag as my previous car was a lease, how can anyone has a tag under their name without it being associated to a car? Don't people have to turn the tag in once the car is sold/junked/totaled? Has this happened to anyone else?

hillbilly8R

Sounds like a DMV screw-up. I would hate to have to deal with VA DMV over any issue. Good luck fixing. Sounds like an oddball clerical mistake to me.

boost4fun

At times the DMV can be VERY slow. 9 months sounds a litte long however.

chronozon

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Now that I thought about it, since I live about 600 miles from where I bought my car, the first temp tag was expired before the real one came, so I actually went to my local DMV and paid $5 for an extension on the temp tag, the real one came in the mail about 3 days later. The officer was telling me my car was registered under what seems to be a temp tag, but still even that second temp tag should expired 7 months ago and the real tag should have been registered under the car by then.

donmeca2020

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where in south florida where you pulled over at? yea but it does sound pretty weird to me also.

chronozon

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It was on Lyon's road just south of Sawgrass Express Way in Coconut Creek, I pulled into the BP (I think) gas station in the Publix shopping center. I guess the cop has been following me for a while since he ran my tag through the computer before he pulled me over.