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Hey man sorry to hear about that. I had a similar experience. When I moved from NJ to NY I transferred the registration of the Jeep over to NY, but left the Camaro in NJ because it was a lease. (This was when leases meant the technical owner of the vehicle was the dealer until the lease end. Because of the inherent liability in this it was changed a few years back. Now you are the owner but your last lease payment is the residual or buyout of the vehicle) But anywho, so now I had a NY address and a car registered in NJ. NY state did not like this, demanded I switch my Camaro to NY. Upon the switch and switching insurance policies to NY, the Jeep had to go on its own rider policy (max of 3 vehicles per policy in NY) The new policy information never made it to the DMV and they suspended my license for having a registered vehicle with no insurance. I at no time was notified. Then I was sent a renewal notice in the mail for the Jeeps registration (mind you this is 2 years later) and upon attempting to renew in person find out my license had been suspended and my registration could not be renewed. (I was at the troy DMV) Further, they told me if I drove the car away from the DMV they would call the police and have me arrested for driving with a suspended license. Mind you I had been paying for insurance the whole time, and that I had never received notification that my insurance company upon switching the polcy failed to provide NY with an electronic notification. They had 2 years to tell me this... nothing. So I called the insurance company livid Mind you I am trapped at the DMV and they want to tow my "unregistered uninsured car" I finally had to threaten to go net door to the rensselaer county court house and file charges against the people at the dmv for harassment , being denied due process, and threatened civil litigation for slander. I am no lawyer but it sounded good enough to get the head of the troy dmv on the phone with my insurance, and get whatever the hell paperwork they needed to allow me to register my jeep, and restore my license. They also waived my fees upon request (most likely due to the threatened litigation... I had taken down names of everyone who had "helped me" once this disaster unfolded. It is not the issue of what my insurance company did or did not do, so much as the fact that I was not in 2 years notified that they suspended my license, and that I was threatened by employees to have me arrested for leaving the DMV with my vehicle. You have to know your rights, refuse to be bullied by some low level bureaucrat, and stand up for the treatment that you are legally entitled to. Fortunately for me I had not commited a crime when finding all of this out, but if I had been pulled over in those 2 years of uninsuredness I would be in a similar situation to yourself. FWIW, they also did the same thing to my dad who got a similar treatment about 3 weeks later when renewing the registration on his suburban. Luckily I had been through it already, so he knew who to yell at, who to contact and who to threaten to sue and he only spent 1 hour at the DMV instead of the 5 hours I spent there. Good luck buddy!
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2000 Z/28 - full suspension, brakes, intake/exhaust ... on its way to being a dedicated trackday/de car
2007 GMC Sierra SLE Crew Cab 4x4 ... the tow rig
1999 Cherokee Sport 3" OME lift, 30" BFG ATs, never been stopped by an Albany winter
2002 CBR F4i - sticky tires and lots o pearl yellow paint
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