I'm thinking I can't, if you think about all the buying and selling that happens on craigslist or similar sites, but I want to be sure.
Apparently the guy I sold one of my cars to is a coke addict wanted in quite a few states.
Remember how I was trying to help out my husbands co-worker and selling him the car for less than 1/2 the asking price?
Yep, that's him. He didn't show up for work today, so they went to the loaner apartment the company owns, and he took the car, his clothes, and the tv... left everything else that people so kindly donated to him. I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT GUY!! Last time my husband second guesses my gut feeling and women's intuition ;)
I've already notified DMV that I've sold the car, turned my plates in, signed the title over to him... but WHO KNOWS if he ever registered it in his name! What if he gets in an accident with that car and hurts someone? What if he robs some place, they recover the vehicle; will the VIN number still come back to me? Is there ANY way I could possibly get in some kind of trouble?
I've never second guessed buying/selling anything to some random person... NOW I wonder...
This has always been a question that bugs me. I have avoided selling a car myself for this reason alone.
if you sold the car to him with no prior knowledge of his drug habit, then no, you cant get into trouble for it.now, if you loaned him the car in exchange for drugs or information about where to buy drugs, then , yes, you are in big trouble. it is actually very common for drug dealers to try to drag an ordinary citizen into/under the microscope of the feds, if the feds spend a few days asking an ordinary citizen questions about a drug deal they know nothing about, then it gives the actual dealer a good laugh and another day or two to ditch the evidence
K. h.
If its still registered to you, it will come back back to you. The info will when a cop checks the plates.
I recently traded my old car in at a dealership and a few months later got a letter from the TX Dept of Insurance stating that their records indicated that the vehicle in question was coming up as uninsured. I called the number and was told that even though I sold my car is was still in my name until a new owner reregister it. Huh? Basically what happens at least here in Texas is that when a car is sold/traded the plates are removed and the car is not re-titled until the new owner goes and gets the title. My car was sold by the dealer at auction to another dealer so it is still in my name (scary!!!) Basically it is up to the guy you sold the car to to get the title transfered. If something does happen and the police to come to ask you questions you should have gotten some sort of bill of sale from him as well as documention from the DMV that the vehicle was sold and you can present them with that and it should be ok.
Good luck and my DH has finally learned to trust in my woman's intuition- it take a bit for them to learn that tho:)
Hmm...sounds like you did all the right stuff, altho it all sounds foreign to me! Turning plates in? Really? You have to do that where you folks live? Like the actual license plates you mean?
We have sold many cars, snowmobiles, trailers, & motorcylces over the years, and all we ever had to do was sign the title in the right place, and have the little corner piece (signed and dated) that is for the seller to keep as a record of the new owner and the info showing they sold it. Altho most of the time my hubby DID insist on a meeting at the DMV to sign it all over. Hes anal that way!
Sorry, just struck me as odd when so many posters said things about "turning in the tags, or plates"...bizzarre to me!
Good luck!
My husband sells cars. As long as HE signed the title your good. Its his now and his responsibilty whether he registered it or not, which he probably didnt.
No. You turned the plates in. In order for him to get new plates he had to register it in a new name, new title.
M.
You already signed it over to him, turned in the tags and notified the DMV. You will not be in trouble. Just keep the records handy to be on the safeside.
Trouble NO.... headache Yes, probably.
My best guess is that the car will probably end up in an impound lot somewhere and they will call you and ask you for the $ and fees it has acquired, if and when that happens just tell them the truth and it should be OK. If you turned in your plates he had to get new ones to drive it, which means he probably registered it, right? Unless he is a real hustler and stole someone else's plates, Ha!
You did all the right things and covered your butt the best you could tho.
If you notified the DMV, copies of those is your proof that you sold the car. It would be great if we could walk people to the place they will change the title. My husband has sold many cars over the years and yes some people took forever to change the title. But we sent notices to the Sec of State here, kept copies of those letters with the date (no sales notice since it was sold to a person) and the date we cancelled the insurance coverage (letter helps even if you call them). ONe guy never chagned the title. he got so many parking tickets it was awful. And each one he got was sent to us since the number was under my husband's name. We had to send in paperwork over and over again showing we sold the car. But we did not have any troubles, just really a pain in the butt.
As long as you turned in the plates and did the proper protocol with the DMV - you're fine. That being said - someone may still come knocking on your door to ask a few questions.
To the best of my knowledge, no...you should be fine...you notified the DMV that you sold the car - right? as well as your insurance company?
Make sure you keep all records of selling the car to him. The Vin may come back to you, but if you sold the car to him You aren't at fault.
You did the title transfer and all that?? You should be fine. Hold on to any records, ANY that show the car is no longer yours.
You sold the car and he bought it. I don't see how you could get it trouble for it. You sold it in good faith. It's not as if you sold it with the intention of it being a drug running vehicle or letting him resell it for drugs or something. And even if he does use it for those things, it wouldn't be on you because it's not your car any more and you notified the DMV of the sale, turned your plates in, turned over the title, blahbitty blah. You're covered.
That's not to say that the police won't question you or your husband on what you might know about him since your husband was friendly with him. This might be a good thing in hindsight that he was chatty with your husband since it might help catch the guy. Those sandwiches might have loosened his lips enough to let something slip in one of their chatty little talks.
EDIT: When you remove the plates from a vehicle you're selling, you can often transfer those plates to your own new vehicle. It also forces the new owner of the vehicle you sold to register the vehicle since if you drive without plates you can get pulled over immediately. If he drives without plates in that car he'll be very conspicuous.
Did you make a copy of the title after he signed it?
You sold the car, turned in the plates and turned over the title... it's his car now and what he does with it is his "issue".
You should be fine- if there's one thing us "government" people are pretty good it, it's "tracking" and "counting beans" so you have told them (in writing) that the car is no longer yours and probably had to pay a fee to do so... no longer your problem!
