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How to buy a NY car in PA, help?
Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:00 PM
Ok I am looking at buying a car from NY that has a PA title. Would the seller just have to drive to a notary in PA? That seems like it would make sense but he don't know. He bought it and found out a complication because they have a different registration system. Thanks guys.




Re: How to buy a NY car in PA, help?
Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:18 PM
If I remember correctly from when we bought a car in Virginia - you swap it to your name at the NY dmv. At that point you get a temp tag so you can drive it & your existing insurance policy will cover it. You will have to register in PA to get a plate. At that time you will pay PA sales tax on the car (all at once). Once it is registered you need to get a PA inspection done & I think that might be when you can add it to your insurance policy. There was something you need to get insurance, pretty sure it is registration. I don't remember the timeline, but I think you get 2-3 months to do it.



Re: How to buy a NY car in PA, help?
Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:18 PM
I already have a plate that has a registration that will be xfered when I get a new car. And I don't think the DMV up there will even be able to do anything since the title is a PA title. He said something like if he wanted to do anything with the car he would have to drop it off in buffalo for 6 months or something?



Re: How to buy a NY car in PA, help?
Friday, September 30, 2011 11:39 AM
Hmmm yeah I don't know about NY, but that is how it worked buying from Virginia.




Re: How to buy a NY car in PA, help?
Friday, September 30, 2011 1:40 PM
You talk to a DMV in NY? That would be my first step...



Re: How to buy a NY car in PA, help?
Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 PM
I talked to the notary in pa and there is really nothing the dmv can do since the title is a PA title... unless he wanted to get it registered in NY which takes a long time and a lot of work apparently.



Re: How to buy a NY car in PA, help?
Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:52 AM
if it's PA title, you should be able to just take it to a PA notary.

when i bought my old subaru wagon, it was registered in NY. he signed the title over and wrote up a bill of sale and I drove it home on his plate, took it to the PA notary and got it registered for PA.

just mailed his plate back to him afterwards.



Re: How to buy a NY car in PA, help?
Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:58 AM
I've purchased vehicles out of state before, and never had a problem. I don't understand why it would be, but perhaps PA has some overly bureaucratic DMV procedures. Every time I've purchased a vehicle from another state, I've simply taken the bill of sale and the signed-over title from the other state, and gone to the DMV in my state to get it registered and titled. I've done it in NY, MA, and ME, with no complications. Incidentally, never in my life have I had a notary involved at all in the purchase or sale of a vehicle. Is that a PA thing?






Re: How to buy a NY car in PA, help?
Saturday, October 01, 2011 8:44 AM
by going to a notary in PA, you can get the vehicle registered, a plate for the car, and the title transferred all in one shot. no waiting for anything to be sent to you.



Re: How to buy a NY car in PA, help?
Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:48 PM
Step 1. Move out of socialist pa and get somewhere less retarded in every aspect of govt.
Step 2. No offense but I lived there and step 1 handles everything



Re: How to buy a NY car in PA, help?
Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:04 PM
Sounds to me like PA blows dude, seriously. I've never heard of having to get a notary involved in a vehicle being purchased, insured, or registered. I used to live in Maine and the one thing that sucked is you ARE NOT allowed to drive AT ALL without registration/insurance. Meaning, if you buy a car private party, you have to get the paperwork done before you can take it home unless you tow it.... In Nebraska you get 30 days private sale or not. And as for the out of state thing, here(Nebraska), you simply bring the car with you when you go to get the car registered and title transferred and they do an "out of state vehicle inspection", which means they just match the vin to the title and go about their business..


Cliff notes:
PA laws suck ass.
Move.


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