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Long time lurker, first time poster - indeed met a few of you at MKT Houston last month!
I've had my Rivian for a month now, thoroughly enjoying it - few service tickets but nothing insurmountable.
However, today my wife was stopped by police for having 'invalid paper tags' [edit: ‘wrong license plates’]. These are the Rivian provided paper tags, registered to IL. Officer said he could find no such record, and issued a citation - we have to go to court. He also told us that we had to register for TX temp tags.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Our guide told us that the plate is fully licensed under IL Dealer's License and they have made hundreds of these transactions with state of TX. Our car went through inspection in TX, although the License Number on the Texas Vehicle Inspection Report does not match the paper plan - instead it looks like part of the VIN. Is that normal and the same with your Inspection Reports (your guide can send on if you don't have it)?
Our application for TX title is in progress with Houston DMV as of 6/30 according to guide.
My wife phoned the DMV [edit: county tax assessor, with questions about registration/title and provided the IL plate #, VIN, and license # in the vehicle inspection report] and they said they couldn’t find any records and stated there was a change in regulations for paper plates in April. [edit: General advice] was to apply for temporary TX paper plates...
At a loss for what to do here - Guide thinks the officer and DMV [edit: county tax assessor] are wrong, but DMV [edit: county tax assessor] can't find any reference to the license number in their systems.
Any thoughts/experience/wisdom? Feel like the car may be legally 'unusable' at this point
I've had my Rivian for a month now, thoroughly enjoying it - few service tickets but nothing insurmountable.
However, today my wife was stopped by police for having 'invalid paper tags' [edit: ‘wrong license plates’]. These are the Rivian provided paper tags, registered to IL. Officer said he could find no such record, and issued a citation - we have to go to court. He also told us that we had to register for TX temp tags.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Our guide told us that the plate is fully licensed under IL Dealer's License and they have made hundreds of these transactions with state of TX. Our car went through inspection in TX, although the License Number on the Texas Vehicle Inspection Report does not match the paper plan - instead it looks like part of the VIN. Is that normal and the same with your Inspection Reports (your guide can send on if you don't have it)?
Our application for TX title is in progress with Houston DMV as of 6/30 according to guide.
My wife phoned the DMV [edit: county tax assessor, with questions about registration/title and provided the IL plate #, VIN, and license # in the vehicle inspection report] and they said they couldn’t find any records and stated there was a change in regulations for paper plates in April. [edit: General advice] was to apply for temporary TX paper plates...
At a loss for what to do here - Guide thinks the officer and DMV [edit: county tax assessor] are wrong, but DMV [edit: county tax assessor] can't find any reference to the license number in their systems.
Any thoughts/experience/wisdom? Feel like the car may be legally 'unusable' at this point