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You can transfer your old plates to your new car when you buy a car, new or used. Most people who buy new cars let the dealership handle the paperwork, so they get new plates but they don't have to do so. A friend of mine has her pre-2010 style plates on her new 2021 Subaru Crosstrek.
Always renew your existing plates, otherwise you forfeit the cost of the plate, and remaining registration fees.
I hate to admit it but I got the new excelsior plates because the colors went good with the color of my new car. Otherwise, I would have kept the gold/blue plates. Remember when Cuomo wanted people with peeling plates to replace them at their own expense? That got shut down fast.
Yeah, I still got the older Statue of Liberty plates and they are still pretty common on the roads.
Where are you seeing those???? When they came out with the blue and white plates everyone was supposed to switch over when they renewed their registration.
I live in Albany County and I only see the blue and white, the orange, and the new Excelsior plates.
Always renew your existing plates, otherwise you forfeit the cost of the plate, and remaining registration fees.
You don't renew plates in NY. You renew the vehicle registration. If the registration ends by lapsing, or you don't switch the registration over if you buy a new car to replace your current one, you are supposed to surrender the plates back to the DMV. I've owned 3 cars, and have used the same set of plates on all three cars, over 20 years, because I just transferred the registration from the old car to the new one.
It's the other way around. You cancel your vehicle's insurance insurance first, then you turn in your plates. You don't get new plates every time you change insurance carriers, and changing insurance companies is fairly common.
That isn't accurate. When one sells a car and doesn't buy a new one to replace it and needs to cancel the insurance, the insurance won't allow you to cancel it unless they have DMV proof that you have returned the plates of the car that you sold. I am speaking from experience.
Still confused, so when NY changes plates, you can keep the old plates for years?
I still see many pre-2010 plates, though I have not seen the plates used in the 90s.
Personally the new NY plates, the design is good on paper but just about every car has a license plate cover which blocks the nice illustrations on top and the bottom, and it ends up looking like the plain VA or TX plate. It needs fixed. Any chance it happens soon?
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