Renewing registration on a car that's out-of-state?

[Beau Vine 55862]

Daughter took her car back to college in Colorado last fall, got a summer internship there, and her TX registration expires in August.  Which means the car needs a TX safety inspection first before we can renew TX registration. 

The gum in the gears:

a.  Colorado does not have a reciprocal state inspection with Texas -- they only do emissions.

b.  She can't stay on our insurance if she registers the car in Colorado.  Putting her on her own insurance would cost significantly more.

 

So what do we do?

1.  Have her take a 9-hour road trip to Texline to get it inspected.

2.  Help?????

 

 

 

[orange dream 1295]

so is it a good assumption that she will never come to anywhere in Texas between now and August 31st?  If so, yes Dalhart or Texline jiffy lube is the safest bet.  Alternatively she could just wait for the next trip home and chance it.  I believe you can go ahead and register it without the inspection and they just send you the sticker once the inspection is shown in the system. When she returns to Texas she has 3 days to have it inspected.  

https://www.dps.texas.gov/rsd/vi/texasRegVeh.htm

Out of state cops will most likely not stop her solely over her inspection sticker but will add it to the list of offenses if she is stopped for other reasons.  Once she crosses the line though she would be wise to go ahead and get it inspected  as quickly as possible afterward.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13726]

Did you talk to your insurance company about special considerations for students out of state?

If she registers the car in Colorado, when will your insurance company find out?  Do they routinely check that or only when the insurance plan is renewed?  

[SDG 3336]

Prob not much help for Texas, but when I was in grad school I was in the same situation.  I faxed proof of my student status including paying OOS tuition and AZ allowed me to renew without the inspection.  

[Beau Vine 55862]

47 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Did you talk to your insurance company about special considerations for students out of state?

If she registers the car in Colorado, when will your insurance company find out?  Do they routinely check that or only when the insurance plan is renewed?  

1.  Already talked to the insurance company. 

2.  They'd probably find out when she had a wreck and we had to file a claim, which they'd then deny paying.

[Hugh G. Rection 156]

Oh ye of little faith.  Insurance companies always pay.

[BottleRocket 659]

I believe you can go ahead and register it without the inspection.

I’m probably wrong, but I don’t think you can proceed with paying for the registration online unless the approved inspection has gone through first.

[Stunns38 3805]

Texas has only one sticker for registration and inspection so there is an option online for registered Texas cars out of state that you can receive your renewed registration sticker out of state. When you return to Texas, you have to get your car inspected....well that what it’s intended for. I returned to Texas in January and my registration didn’t expire until June. Since there’s only one sticker now, every place said that I wasn’t required to get an inspection until June. The state needs to resolve that issue.

[Stunns38 3805]

I’m probably wrong, but I don’t think you can proceed with paying for the registration online unless the approved inspection has gone through first.

You can. I did in NY for 9 years.

[BottleRocket 659]

Okay... from Texas.gov

Special Circumstances
Out of State Motorists

If your vehicle is currently out of state and you are unable to complete a Texas vehicle inspection in order to renew your registration, you may self-certify that the vehicle is out of state and will be permitted to register online, by mail, or in person.

If you renew your vehicle registration using the out-of-state self-certification option, a remark will be placed on your vehicle record indicating that an inspection is still due. Once you return to the state, you must complete a Texas vehicle inspection within three days of arrival at your home, duty station, or destination. It is very important that you keep the VIR issued after completing your inspection in case you are stopped by law enforcement before the remark is removed from your vehicle record, which takes about 48 hours. The remark will be removed only upon payment of the state’s portion of the inspection fee and verification of inspection at your county tax office.

[El Diablo 4232]

Seems a bit weird that the insurance agent doesn't know the answer.

[Beau Vine 55862]

Wife finally tracked down a DMV agent on the phone that confirmed what BR and Stunns posted.

I'm amused that Texas demands that your car is safe in order to get registered, unless you promise to keep it out of the state, and then they'll register anything.

[C-Man 27778]

We have this come up all the time for clients -- and we handle it for them. I would think rates should be lower in Colorado than Texas. Yes, it would need to be put on a Colorado auto policy so perhaps you lose multi-car discounts and therefore gets more expensive overall. Still, I'm wondering what the agent tried to do. What carrier if you don't mind my asking?

[Chewbacca 7829]

We have this come up all the time for clients -- and we handle it for them. I would think rates should be lower in Colorado than Texas. Yes, it would need to be put on a Colorado auto policy so perhaps you lose multi-car discounts and therefore gets more expensive overall. Still, I'm wondering what the agent tried to do. What carrier if you don't mind my asking?

Registration in CO is much more expensive than tx. Depending on the car it can be north of 1k per year.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13726]

On 6/7/2018 at 1:22 PM, Beau Vine said:

Wife finally tracked down a DMV agent on the phone that confirmed what BR and Stunns posted.

I'm amused that Texas demands that your car is safe in order to get registered, unless you promise to keep it out of the state, and then they'll register anything.

In this case you basically having Texas saying that if you want to give money to the state of Texas for a vehicle in Colorado, why not.   The real puzzling part is that Colorado could potentially have an unsafe vehicle on their roads for an extended period of time without knowledge or enforcement.   And that situation must also occur in the other direction as well.    

But like a lot of transactions, if you try to cover all scenarios or situations, you end up chasing the .001% of the cases at too high of a cost.   Do a good job with the basic 95% and you're alright.

[woohorn 1131]

The real puzzling part is that Colorado could potentially have an unsafe vehicle on their roads for an extended period of time without knowledge or enforcement.

Plenty of people (old site) and studies conclude that "safety" inspections don't improve safety and there are tea partiers in Tx trying to eliminate them each year.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13726]

2 minutes ago, woohorn said:

 

 

Plenty of people (old site) and studies conclude that "safety" inspections don't improve safety and there are tea partiers in Tx trying to eliminate them each year.

 

True because the safety bar is set fairly low.  CSB alert.  The most tea partier person I've ever worked with, used to complain like crazy how the govt was taking our money for no reason and I definitely heard him complain about the annual inspection.  MFer drove the oldest POS that belched smoke like you wouldn't believe.  He bragged how he knew a place that would pass his emission testing by actually testing another vehicle on-site.   I told him once that practices like that were the reason why the rest of us had to pay.  He didn't have a reply to that other than he wasn't hurting anybody and it was the govt's fault to begin with.

[woohorn 1131]

+ only 17 states have safety inspections

+ Colorado does not.

Her car will be as safe as any other on the road up there.

[Chewbacca 7829]

1 hour ago, woohorn said:

+ only 17 states have safety inspections

+ Colorado does not.

Her car will be as safe as any other on the road up there.

We do have emissions testing,  though. 

[C-Man 27778]

14 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

On 6/7/2018 at 1:52 PM, C-Man said:

We have this come up all the time for clients -- and we handle it for them. I would think rates should be lower in Colorado than Texas. Yes, it would need to be put on a Colorado auto policy so perhaps you lose multi-car discounts and therefore gets more expensive overall. Still, I'm wondering what the agent tried to do. What carrier if you don't mind my asking?

Registration in CO is much more expensive than tx. Depending on the car it can be north of 1k per year.

I know nothing about the registration costs. I'm talking about the auto insurance rates, which are generally lower in Colorado than Texas.