Need help or advice on dealing with the texas dmv

[gmcgone*gtx]

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone here have any recent experience in getting a Bonded Title through the Texas DMV?

I’m confused as to what forms are needed and what the process is to get the VIN verified. The DMV requires a form that was called an Out of State Identification Certificate (Form VI-30) that a state inspection station would sign verifying the VIN but, it is no longer available. My regular inspection guy said that the TX DMV came out and collected all of his VI-30 forms.


I have to get a bonded title because I can’t find my deceased brothers title or a registration receipts for one of the cars that were in Georgia. I had a file stuffed with documents for the 2nd car and I should have a title for it coming in the mail any day now. I don’t mind doing a Bonded Title on the black car, that's OK. But, we just pulled the engine to have the car sand blasted and painted. BTW, both cars were running soon after we got them home and we started taking them apart to restore. MISTAKE!


I went downtown to the DMV's regional office with all of my forms and documents in order and with a signed VIN identification certificate from a Georgia police officer who ran the VIN and confirmed that it has a clean record. They wouldn’t accept it.


As of now the car is sitting on the trailer and was supposed to go to the sand blasting shop on Friday. The DMV “suggested” that I unload it, re-install the engine and take it in to my local state safety inspection station and have it inspected. He said even if it was on a trailer it just had to be a “complete” car.


I couldn’t believe that he said that and when he just said I’d have to get it inspected. Well, anyone with half a brain knows that there are numerous other systems on a car that have to be in good working condition before it would pass a state safety inspection.

After getting home, steaming and stomping around for awhile and thinking about it I thought surely the guy wasn’t that dumb. Now, I’m confused, was he saying they could verify the VIN without getting an inspection? But, they don’t have that #*%@# form available anymore! Texas just started their new "Two Steps One Sticker" program and with that apparently they changed things.


This could become a major ordeal and would wreck my schedule for restoring it.
Let alone getting it on the road again anytime soon. ARRRRGGGH! I guess I have no choice but to get the title after I’ve completed it. So much for their registration and titling “within 30 days” rule. Which is BS when you bring home an old classic.


Does anyone here know of any way for me to get a Texas Bonded Title without having to complete the whole car restoration beforehand?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

 

[patrick66]

Do you have a will, power of attorney or other legal document(s) (other than the Georgia police info) that prove you inherited the cars and that you are the legal owner? This is one problem when dealing with vehicles that come from no-title states.

I'm in OK and have never dealt with a TX bonded title, but I know that the procedures for OK and TX are very similar in many ways.

 

[gmcgone*gtx]

Do you have a will, power of attorney or other legal document(s) (other than the Georgia police info) that prove you inherited the cars and that you are the legal owner? This is one problem when dealing with vehicles that come from no-title states.

I'm in OK and have never dealt with a TX bonded title, but I know that the procedures for OK and TX are very similar in many ways.

I completed a Texas Affidavit of Inheritance form for each car with my siblings notarized signature showing that they were in agreement with my taking ownership of the two cars. My sister was with me when it was filed at the DMV and there hasn’t been any problems in that regard.

The other car's application for title has already been filed with no problems.

The only difference between the two cars is that I did an "Application for Title Only" on that one and it didn't require a safety inspection yet because I wasn't registering it or getting plates at the time, I was just filing for a title and will register it and plate it at a later time.


Apparently it's different with a bonded title and they now want a safety inspection before they will proceed with my application.

The only way that I can see to get a title now is by getting a state safety inspection done.

I think they now want a state safety inspection report that shows a VIN inspection was done also. I think that they combined the two actions into one, as far as I can figure out. That is only my personal interpretation of things so far.

I don't know if it’s actually a new policy that they just started in March or if the DMV clerk that I
had came up with his own version of what I needed to show him in order to apply.

From what I've read, and correct me if I'm wrong getting a Bonded Title goes like this:

IF they ever do accept my application documents, at that time they will give me a letter of some sort. Then I take the letter to a bonding company. Once I get bonded I go back to the DMV with the documents from the bonding company and only then I'll be able to apply for a bonded title. After three years if no one has contested my right to own and title the cars then I can get a regular title.

Correct?

 

[gmcgone*gtx]

EDIT: The reason for not having to get an inspection at the time also might be due to that when asked if I was going to register it as an antique vehicle I replied yes. I had the 1967 Texas plates with me and they were approved right then and there. We have several cars that are registered as antique vehicles. Small town and local tag office, I've been there many times.:jerk: