UKPylot’s MINI Blog

20 Dec, 2007

It’s Official, the DMV Really Does Hate Me

Posted by: ukpylot In: Non MINI ()

Went to the DMV this morning to chase down my missing licence, and found out that my licence was not lost in the mail - they never sent it to me as my renewal application was on “hold”. The lady said that maybe I ticked a “yes” box by mistake and didn’t fill in the “explain answer” section but since all I did was go online and type in a password and give a credit card, that is more than unlikely. It was pretty obvious that they weren’t ever going to tell me my renewal was on hold so it was good that I went in. So they had me fill in a new form, make a signature, give my thumb print and a new picture; should get a new licence in 2-3 weeks.

Definitely been a bad year for me with the DMV.

7 Responses to "It’s Official, the DMV Really Does Hate Me"

1 | RB

December 20th, 2007 at 13:38

So much for the “Paperless Society!”

2 | ukpylot

December 20th, 2007 at 14:06

Yes, the irony is that I did all of these things on the internet and each of them required a visit to the office to put right.

3 | RB

December 20th, 2007 at 21:22

R U Gng 2 b at the scmm bash @ snta anta n janury?

4 | ukpylot

December 21st, 2007 at 07:26

No, won’t be at santa ana. I haven’t looked at the SCMM forums in many months, got tired of there never being anything that I can participate in (at least without a long pre-drive) and that making me feel like it had become a clique that I was not part of. I am, as they, geographically undesirable.

5 | RB

December 21st, 2007 at 14:00

Wow! You can’t imagine how many times I have heard that in the last year starting at AMVIV. I live within LA and still find it that way. I have suggested some things and they went nowhere. I think the guys who are running it now, well at least some, are truly trying to make a diff like Lex and George and others but all in all it’s really a club of 40.

I will say if more people where to say more maybe more changes would happen. The one line I continually hear is this… ” We are a casual club.” Huh?! I have talked to many, many who feel as I do… BS. Make it a club that covers the area it supposedly covers.

Have regional event/runs whatever and also do combined events like Santa Anita and have a bigger charity involvement, maybe regional and combined karting events, camping etceteras. But really the regional officers could do a lot more and either they are and are being shut down or they do nothing.

The funny thing is I was approached by some fellows to design a website, magazine, logo and such for a new SoCal MINI club. We actually bought a domaine name, they paid me for the work I had done then … poof… they disappeared. Gone! I had only dealt with them by email and they paid me with PayPal.

Well ta fo now.

6 | Ian C.

December 21st, 2007 at 16:59

In MA we have to pay to renew registration annually (separate to paying for inspection sticker).
Couldn’t renew GBMINI online back in October (although the mailed card said I could) … turned out not to be some unpaid parking ticket, but the manufacturer code had changed from “MINI” to “MNNI” (?) - luckily I was able to have it dealt with by phone, skipping the DMV visit.

7 | BMBLEB

January 2nd, 2008 at 06:42

Also in MA, I had the same problem as Ian, except that the RMV insisted that my 2004 MCS, which had always been a MINI, was now a BMW. After a bit I gave up fighting; figured it was better to be registered as a BMW than not at all.

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