Funny Registration Issue
Kind of an odd situation has played out - my wife wrote off her car in February or March this year, insurance paid out and they kept the vehicle.
In September, my wife received a new sticker and registration for the vehicle and it shows as “rebuilt” status. She claims she never signed up for auto-renewal (I am doubtful on that but let’s leave that alone for now).
How could she have been issued new registration on a vehicle that was surrendered to insurance? How would it have a rebuilt title without the registered owner (my wife based on the fact that registration was issued in her name) showing the inspection documents to a registrar in order to re-register it after the accident?
Is this just a minor, relatively common clerical error? It seems like it opens up a huge window of opportunity to fraudulently claim that the car has been stolen and that we are still the owners.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not worried in the slightest, I am just very curious how this could’ve happened. I am also curious if the insurance company actually rebuilt the vehicle and sold it or if it went to Copart or something similar and somebody else rebuilt it, and if so, did the government issue two valid registrations for the same vehicle?
AMA has simply said that the government needs to fix it and there is nothing they can do about it.
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Originally Posted by killramos
