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Old 07-08-2011, 07:50 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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Or the longest amount of time you've seen one be expired somewhere on the roads or in a parking lot of whatever?

I want to replace the stickers on all 4 of my cars in December 2011 so that it says 12/12. I will then next replace them in January 2013 so that none of the inspection stickers will ever say "XX/13", owing to my ridiculous superstition Problem is I shall have to drive for a bit with expired inspection stickers. Oh, well.

Think I'm crazy yet?
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Old 07-08-2011, 08:07 PM
 
Location: New Braunfels
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Well my tags will probably win. I have Utah tags that expired in 08. I have tried to renew them over and over again and finally gave up. My truck is owned and registered by my Grandpa whom lives in Utah. To make a long story short my grandpa won't put me on the registration, he says it isn't my vechile until he dies (it's a control thing). I tried to get Texas tags and pay for them with his name but where he doesn't live in Texas they won't let me. I also tried to pay the Utah tags and they want me to drive all the way back to Utah to get a Utah State safety inspection. I finally gave up and decided when my grandpa dies I will get the title and then I can get it registered in my name. My husband has been pulled over a couple of times for speeding in the past year and all the cops say is "did you know your tags are expired?" Ha Ha he told them yes and the reason why they are expired and the cops act like no big deal it is a Utah problem not theirs. Our other car has Texas tags and we have never let the tags expire on them yet
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Old 07-08-2011, 08:49 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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Well, that's a pretty interesting situation. I guess that's one solution: keep your car registered in another state & just live in Texas. LOL.
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Old 07-08-2011, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Schertz, TX
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Do you not plan on driving at all next Wednesday? ...or was the
plan to take the day off and stay at home with the doors bolted
shut and windows shuttered?

Don't plan on driving around for weeks with expired inspection
stickers as the grace period is only 5-days.

Several of my associates in Schertz have been ticketed due to
expired inspection stickers... so I won't be testing my luck with
that.
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Old 07-08-2011, 08:59 PM
 
Location: That's pretty obvious
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Well my tags will probably win. I have Utah tags that expired in 08. I have tried to renew them over and over again and finally gave up. My truck is owned and registered by my Grandpa whom lives in Utah. To make a long story short my grandpa won't put me on the registration, he says it isn't my vechile until he dies (it's a control thing). I tried to get Texas tags and pay for them with his name but where he doesn't live in Texas they won't let me. I also tried to pay the Utah tags and they want me to drive all the way back to Utah to get a Utah State safety inspection. I finally gave up and decided when my grandpa dies I will get the title and then I can get it registered in my name. My husband has been pulled over a couple of times for speeding in the past year and all the cops say is "did you know your tags are expired?" Ha Ha he told them yes and the reason why they are expired and the cops act like no big deal it is a Utah problem not theirs. Our other car has Texas tags and we have never let the tags expire on them yet

feel your pain, we inherited a car after the death of a family member and it was the biggest pain in the petunias to get the registration squared away. The paperwork!!! --- and TWO trips to motor vehicle --- ugh.

To answer the question through, I go maybe a month over on my stickers but no longer. Especially on the registration stickers. At some point they won't let you renew at H-E-B or by mail and you have to go all the way down to the DMV. Learned my lesson after that...
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Old 07-08-2011, 08:59 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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Do you not plan on driving at all next Wednesday? ...or was the
plan to take the day off and stay at home with the doors bolted
shut and windows shuttered?

Don't plan on driving around for weeks with expired inspection
stickers as the grace period is only 5-days.

Several of my associates in Schertz have been ticketed due to
expired inspection stickers... so I won't be testing my luck with
that.
What? Wednesday? What does Wednesday have to do with anything? I'm never going to be in Schertz or any other podunk town, so I don't care. The grace period is 60 days, isn't it? Or so I heard. Or maybe you can drive for 5 days WITHOUT getting ticketed, but after 5 days, you'll get a ticket, but can have it rescinded if you get caught and then show them you got a new one. After 60 days, you can't get it rescinded at all, period. So good thing my sticker expires in October! Means I can get it replaced after 31 days on December 1st!

And they REALLY need to institute 2-year inspection stickers. This 1-year thing is a scam and extremely annoying, particularly for people with multiple cars.
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Old 07-08-2011, 09:05 PM
 
Location: That's pretty obvious
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And they REALLY need to institute 2-year inspection stickers. This 1-year thing is a scam and extremely annoying, particularly for people with multiple cars.

nooooo --- arizona has two-year inspections, which cost a fortune!! Even if you want just a year inspection - (we were moving out of state for pete's sake!!) they still charge you for two years.
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Old 07-08-2011, 09:13 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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nooooo --- arizona has two-year inspections, which cost a fortune!! Even if you want just a year inspection - (we were moving out of state for pete's sake!!) they still charge you for two years.
How much were the Arizona inspections? Well, then they need to institute OPTIONS.

1-year inspection is $18. 2-year inspection is $32. Or some sort of system like that.

Sigh. SO annoying, the way it's set up right now....and they don't really even "check" the important things in the car. It stinks of a revenue-generating scam to me, even though it's so cheap.

Haha. More of a time-wasting scam rather than revenue generation.
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Old 07-08-2011, 09:22 PM
 
Location: New Braunfels, TX
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They're looking at the basics. You want more? You'll PAY for it - at the standard labor rate of 80-100 bucks/hour, or more. Be careful what you wish for.

And be aware that they don't always "waive" the fines. But, of course, if you're caught it'll be because of some "wrong-minded cop", I'm sure. Let it run to the end of a month, then have it inspected within the 5-day grace period of the next month - it's cool. Longer than that, some courts will get kinda ugly about it - but it's your choice.
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Old 07-08-2011, 09:28 PM
 
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Long ago, I went five months without getting the new sticker (don't ask). That got fixed when I pulled up to the San Antonio side of the light at Evers and Wurzbach. And who is sitting on the Leon Valley side of the light? Yep, Leon Valley policeman. I had nowhere to go but into Leon Valley. He turned his car around with quite a show and followed me down to the Enterprise lot by Ancira. He gave me a ticket and a one-sded discussion about the law.
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