Ok...got my plates today! So...picked up my car on 3/15, completed the paperwork and fedex back roughly a week or so later. The plates arrived today (4/16/25), dated 4/6/25 with a ten day waiver on inspection, dated 4/7/25, meaning technically, I need to have the inspection done by tomorrow. Crazy.
Just an FYI, I picked up my car in Plainview last Friday, and 20 mins away in Bethpage there is a DMV. I walked in, told the man handing out the tickets that I want to turn in my plates. The DMV was crowded but my number was called in less than 5 mins. I was out the door quickly, back in the car and on the phone with my insurance company canceling the insurance on my Tesla.
I suggest you go to your local DMV, no wait for turning in your plates, at least that was my experience last Friday at the Bethpage DMV. It was about a 20 min drive for the Plainview delivery center.Thanks @Westchester Air and will do exactly this! So reading your post above: Once I receive the new plates/reg in the mail I still have to notarize some forms and mail? Odd as I never done that before. Also where the heck do I find a "local DMV authorized service"? My zip is 11559. $40 and not have to wait at DMV all day sounds like a steal
Wow! I've been driving without front plates for years and only once got a ticket in Port Jefferson while parked on a street. That ticket was from a town cop who was also ticketing a red M3 for the same reason and not a Suffolk Country cop. My understanding is that Nassau/Suffolk cops won't issue a front license plate ticket unless you have been pulled over for some other violation. I got into this discussion with a Suffolk County cop I got friendly with after meeting him at a local 7-11 a number of times (he was enthralled by my Lucid and was an investor in Lucid). He mentioned I'd never get pulled over for this but town cops are a different story. Were the tickets issued by a town cop or an actual Nassau County cop?
FYI, put my new plates on the car today and took it for "inspection". It was pretty funny honestly. The guy basically looked at the car. The summary says
Yeah, the slip said “L/F wheel”. Guess that meant left front wheel? I can assure you no wheels were removed tho LOL
