Vehicle registration fees--RIPOFF

[JDgreen227]

Be careful what you wish for! It would actually be very easy to track your miles with a vehicle GPS unit (it can be done also with a GPS equiped cell phone). Not only total miles but where and when the vehicle was driven. I don't think we want our government keeping that close a watch on us- at least I don't. Cops are already using cell phone data to track folks under investigation.

PH

Onstar tracks my in-laws new Buick, we did not renew the Onstar on our new cars after the first year (free) because we did not want tracking.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Onstar tracks my in-laws new Buick, we did not renew the Onstar on our new cars after the first year (free) because we did not want tracking.

Its still tracking, you just cant use the services. Also, many cars have the ability to have the computers downloaded in case of accident investigations. Like black boxes on airplanes. They can tell how fast you were going, if brakes were applied, how long from brakes to crash (air bag deployment), ect, ect, ect.


Chris

 

[clemsonfor]

Battery tax and tire tax.



Bruce

Those are to help deal with the disposal of them at county facilities. Does not go to help pay for roads, but yea im not saying they dont get you there to. The crazy think is the lawnmower batter or giant equiptment battery are both the same fee in this state. As is a tiny tire VS a big 44" mudtire? We have an oil fee here in SC too. Every qt of oil you buy has a $0.02 tax added at the register.

 

[clemsonfor]

My highest taxed vehicle is my wifes 2001 Toyota Highlander with 110,000 miles on it. After all the local taxes property tax school add on (cant remember if i had a renewal this time or not about $30 every other year) Im thinking i paid about $150. The 1990 ranger and 1997 saturn are both bottomed out and there like $30/yr no renewal and $50 in a renewal year. The renewal year means like i breifly touched on earlier is every other year and they call it a tag renewal???

 

[JDgreen227]

Those are to help deal with the disposal of them at county facilities. Does not go to help pay for roads, but yea im not saying they dont get you there to. The crazy think is the lawnmower batter or giant equiptment battery are both the same fee in this state. As is a tiny tire VS a big 44" mudtire? We have an oil fee here in SC too. Every qt of oil you buy has a $0.02 tax added at the register.

Here in Michigan if you buy a new battery, be it for a motorcycle or a motorhome, you have to trade in a battery (termed a "core" or be assessed a core charge. The core charge was $7 in 2004, was $9 in 2009. If you have no trade in battery the core charge is added to the price of the new battery, AND THE FRICKING STATE CHARGES 6% TAX on the core whether you have one or not. Another ripoff there. Grumble Grumble.

Yup, 54 cents, possibly more, for every new vehicle battery sold in Michigan a calender year must add up to quite a lot. Know what...the "core charge" is supposed to keep people from dumping batteries in landfills. My in laws sold a car battery to a scrap dealer, it was a good sized one, they got $4 for it. Go figger.

 

[Diamondpilot]

I just sold 8 batteries for scrap and got about $95. Your inlaws got robbed.

We also have core charge of $8.50 around here.

As for tires we have a $.50 per tire disposal fee. I will gladly pay that to keep them out of the road ditches and from me having to haul them home.


Chris

 

[Western]

Texas Registration Fees are apparently going to be "simplifed" this year. But the older fees include a lot of little fees added by different counties.

Bird,they had a segment on the news last night on this,
channel 5 I think.

They said there was close to 1800 weight classes in Texas for various motorized vehicles, they are going to reduce that to I believe 7

I pay around $75-$95 a vehicle and I thought that was high! What gets me is they say it's for roads, but I would bet you it ends up in the general fund so the Politicians can pay for pet projects.

I know when we voted for our state lottery, the premise was that the proceeds would go strictly to our education budget, which is currently broke???

 

[JDgreen227]

Bird,they had a segment on the news last night on this,
channel 5 I think.

They said there was close to 1800 weight classes in Texas for various motorized vehicles, they are going to reduce that to I believe 7

I pay around $75-$95 a vehicle and I thought that was high! What gets me is they say it's for roads, but I would bet you it ends up in the general fund so the Politicians can pay for pet projects.

I know when we voted for our state lottery, the premise was that the proceeds would go strictly to our education budget, which is currently broke???

Back in the late 70's when they were getting the Michigan Lottery set up, we were told "This will be the permanent solution to educational funding here in Michigan"....

Yeah, right. And they kept raising our property taxes to fund the schools, until about 1994, when the voters here passed a proposal that limited property taxes and instead, the sales tax rate here went from 4% to 6%, and that sales tax increase was supposed to be a permanent solution to school OPERATING millage. We still pay a good sum for schools, but our property taxes decreased because homeowners no longer paid operating millage, which the 2% tax hike was to cover. And today, the lottery only pays a small part of the education budget, and the schools are desperate for funding. What a farce.

 

[Bird]

Amazing how politicians can come up with so many "permanent" solutions, isn't it?:laughing: Some of them actually work for a year or two. At least in Texas, if you get the "over 65 homestead exemption" your school taxes are frozen. We bought this house in 2005, so our school taxes are frozen at the same 2005 tax amount. They'll stay the same dollar amount whether the value of the property goes up or down and whether the school board raises the tax rate or not. But even so, 62% of my property tax is school tax.

 

[5030]

Onstar tracks my in-laws new Buick, we did not renew the Onstar on our new cars after the first year (free) because we did not want tracking.

..and that dandy cell phone you have in your pocket tracks as well.

Might as well renew your onstar and use the service. I have it, I like it. Far as being protected, that's what my CCW is for.

Look at it this way. If you don't want tracking and you don't want registration fees, ride a bicycle and do it naked.

 

[tractorboy5500]

Look at it this way. If you don't want tracking and you don't want registration fees, ride a bicycle and do it naked.
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They might not can track you, but they will see you coming down the road.

 

[5030]

Look at it this way. If you don't want tracking and you don't want registration fees, ride a bicycle and do it naked.
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They might not can track you, but they will see you coming down the road.

However, they may not care to look......:laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[JDgreen227]

..and that dandy cell phone you have in your pocket tracks as well.

Might as well renew your onstar and use the service. I have it, I like it. Far as being protected, that's what my CCW is for.

Look at it this way. If you don't want tracking and you don't want registration fees, ride a bicycle and do it naked.

For somebody who drives less than 2500 miles a year, Onstar is way overpriced.

 

[scoutcub]

Wow, I had no idea how lucky we were here. My '01 Chevy truck will cost me about $50 to renew.

Yes, I was pleasantly surprised how much cheaper Ohio is than MI!! I just transferred a MI title to OH, got my plate and registration for my motorcycle, total cost.....40 bucks.

 

[radioman]

here in nys we have to pay for 2 years worth of registration. If we use the vehicle for 1 year and 1 day, and turn in plates, we lose the whole year worths of registration.

 

[psj12]

Same 2 yr rip off in Maryland. I had to buy a Two year registration to drive my truck from Maryland to Oklahoma where I immediatly re-regestered it. I returned to Md and turned in the plates. I only got back the 2nd years worth of registration fees.

Maryland does not offer any form of temp registration for any purpose other than to transport your vehicle within the state for purpose of inspection.

 

[5030]

For somebody who drives less than 2500 miles a year, Onstar is way overpriced.

...but don't you like the soothing female voice? I do.

2.5K on Michigan roads equals 100,000 on other roads. Roads here flat suck.

 

[Lloyd_E]

We pay a hundred a year for the truck... actually it is $200 every two years for the sticker and it is based on weight of vehicle. They could actually record and measure number of miles
driven. We have to produce an up-to-date and valid insurance card to renew. They could check milage reading on dash at the time and check against previous record via a data base... it would probably slow the system down though and create more of a wait time in line. Up here we have the (*******) joy of paying for road maintenance vis huge fuel taxes - we pay just under $6 per gallon for high test. And our roads are bad... so bad some visiting bus tours have cancelled routes.

 

[JDgreen227]

...but don't you like the soothing female voice? I do.

2.5K on Michigan roads equals 100,000 on other roads. Roads here flat suck.

I can't hear worth a (bleep). It could be Darth Vader or Miss America on the Onstar and I would never know the difference. :laughing:

 

[grnspot110]

Don't mind the registration fees near as much as having to pay sales tax on used vehicles. It's already been collected every time the vehicle is sold!!! ~~ grnspot