Kid's Car's Tags-Expired

[Anonymous]

They expired on Saturday the 30th. We renewed by mail last week but they haven't arrived yet. We have the print out of the renewal.

Yes or no:

Would you let your 17yo son take the car to practice?

[Anonymous]

yes

[Anonymous]

Depends what the alternative is, OP. If you have another car, he could use that. If it's a choice between missing practice and driving with expired plates, eh. Maybe drive. Or carpool, or Uber. But my son, when he was 17, was not a good enough driver to drive himself anywhere, so the point would have been moot anyway!

[Anonymous]

I drove with expired tags for two months recently, and I didn’t even have the printout. On the slim chance you get pulled over, you show the printout.

Granted, I am a middle-aged white lady with baby car seats in the back. I’m not worried about a cop using expired tags as a pretext to harrass me.

[Anonymous]

Yes because they will show up as not expired in the mva. So if an Officer is behind him and runs the tag that will see it’s not expired.
Technically he could get a ticket for “ not displaying a valid registration sticker” but it’s very unlikely..

[Anonymous]

99.99% he won't get pulled over.

But getting pulled over for something so innocuous is good experience.

[Anonymous]

In Virginia you won’t be pulled over unless they are over a year expired. And even if you do get pulled over, the officer will look the car up in the system and see that it’s registered and they’ll just give a reminder to get the sticker on.

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

No, I would not let anyone in my family drive on expired tags.

We've been pulled over and fined for much less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I would not let anyone in my family drive on expired tags.

We've been pulled over and fined for much less.

Like what?

[Anonymous]

Yes, the car is registered, you're just waiting for the proof. Totally different situation than the care not being registered. Disagree with the posters above that driving an unregistered car is not a big deal. If you get caught they won't let you drive the car and they will have it towed which is expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, the car is registered, you're just waiting for the proof. Totally different situation than the care not being registered. Disagree with the posters above that driving an unregistered car is not a big deal. If you get caught they won't let you drive the car and they will have it towed which is expensive.

no one said driving an unregistered car is not a big deal, it is.
Driving with an expired sticker…… sticker…. Is not a huge deal because the car registration itself is up to date.

[Anonymous]

I’ve got a car with plates that went dead in 2020; I’ve had cops behind me at stop lights a dozen times and none have said a word.

Let him go, as a pP said this will be a good first interaction with a cop*

*if your kid is a minority I take back everything, get the registration fixed

[Anonymous]

Put the renewal in the glove compartment. That will be enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, I would not let anyone in my family drive on expired tags.

We've been pulled over and fined for much less.

Like what?

Two days past emissions inspection due date, I got pulled over and fined. I was two days late because we were on a summer road trip to another state when the notice came. They caught me driving back into MD with the suitcases in the trunk.