Grit dog
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- May 18, 2020
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- Location
- Auburn, Washington
- First Name
- Todd
- Truck Year
- 1986, 1977
- Truck Model
- K20, C10
- Engine Size
- 454, 350
It’s 30 years in WA. And it’s a permanent plate. $100 + some added fees.
There’s no mileage limit. There’s a small list of what it can and can’t be used for “technically”. But one of the uses is “special excursions”. So every trip is a special excursion. lol
I don’t see many/any on the highway during rush hour. Plenty of 30 + age vehicles on the road but when I see them they are typically sporting normal plates.
That said, yeah fyck em. If I get pulled over hauling a load to the dump in the 77, it’s a special excursion. lol.
RE Washington emissions and licensing. Don’t want to say it too loud, but I’m actually astounded that there’s NO emissions testing anywhere in state. They phased out the last of it around 10 years ago? And vehicle licensing is very fairly priced. Although they get a pile of money for “use tax” on used vehicles and toys (campers bikes boats etc) if one doesn’t know how to work that system. And it’s the same ~10% tax for new sales tax or used use tax based on book value if newer. However the brother in law deal can be used once per vehicle/toy. And they don’t question purchase price on older stuff. Not sure what the cutoff is. Haven’t found a rule per se. I think it’s subjective.
But any newer vehicle or toy, say <15ish years old, they’ve used book value on me regardless of the *wink purchase price on the bill of sale.
Anything old, the squares, ,late 90s early 00s vehicles, they’ve never questioned a low purchase price.
Learned real quick when we moved here in 2011 and they wanted over $4k to transfer our boat registration from CO to WA! Took 3 dmv trips to different places before I hooked one on it being a $500 dingy not a $40k ski boat.
I’ll say without the workarounds, I’d have donated probably another 20 grand to the State by now. For used stuff that was already taxed one or more times…somewhere.
So any of you Worshingtonians on here who are new to the state or unaware, please re-read what I posted. It’s easy to pay ALOT of money to the state that you can smartly forgo if you play your cards right.
Heck several years ago I went to register my new to me snow bike.
From the previous one I learned that the dmv didn’t know how to handle the registration on these. I’ll spare the long story but in WA motorcycle = titled vehicle on or off road. And snowmobile = no title just registration. And if you used a dirt bike or double dog bike summer on wheels and winter on a track you had to surrender the bike title in winter and register as a sled and re title in the summer and get a license plate or trail sticker. And repeat next winter. Wised up on the 2nd snobike. Took in the bill of sale only. Not the MSO for the bike (it was never titled). And some website pics of “Timbersleds” which was my brand of kit.
It was not in their system (of course) and I convinced the dmv dude and his supervisor and they called Olympia on the spot and got Timbersled added as a snowmobile mfg in their computer system! First I didn’t have to register based on the bike value. And if I actually used it on dirt or roads, I could title and tag the bike separately from the snow kit.
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