Where do you keep your car registration?

[Platapus]

I am involved in a discussion on another forum concerning safety and security.

There we were discussing the hazards of programming your car GPS with your home address as anyone stealing your keys gets access to your car and your house.

One of the respondents stated that it would not make any difference as the thief could just read your address off the registration.

My response was "who would keep their registration in their car instead of their wallet? Well, evidently pretty much everyone on that forum keeps it in their car.

It would never occur to me to store something that as my address in my car. So I would like to poll the members here.

When driving your car, is your registration in your car (glove box or other location) or in your wallet/purse?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[DarkFish]

my car (yay I've finally got one:yeah:) registration is usually at home with my car keys. If I take the car I take both of them with me in my pocket.

[Feuer Frei!]

Glove box. Always has been, always will be.

[Gerald]

In a safe box,I do not have it available which is good.

[kiwi_2005]

Come to think of it I have no idea where mine is. We don't carry round our rego especially not in our car that would be a plus for a car thief. car + rego = a sale. Here only time its needed is if selling the car. If getting pull up by a cop only important thing to have is drivers license they never ask for the registration.

[Platapus]

In a safe box,I do not have it available which is good.

you mean you don't carry it when you drive? In my state it is the law that it must be carried when the vehicle is being driven.

[Platapus]

Just to clarify for those out of the US. I am asking about the state registration certificate, not the title (which should be locked up safe).

There might be some confusion based on locale.

[Gerald]

you mean you don't carry it when you drive? In my state it is the law that it must be carried when the vehicle is being driven. In "normal circumstances" there shall be in the car, but because the car is registered under different conditions so this is not necessary, but you're right, the law provides that there shall be in the car, under normal conditions.

[Ducimus]

Glove box. I got enough crap in my wallet. Typically you don't plan on your car getting broke into, though growing up in Southern california, ive learned not to give them a reason to break into it to begin with.

Center console, ash tray and the like? I leave them wide open at night - and empty. No CDs, no money, nothing worth stealing. Ive had my car broken into at current apartment and since then i have never left ANYTHING in my vehicle except the registration in the glove box. (edit: where as before i always had some spare change in the center console, but it was out of sight. Now I don't even carry that.)

[Gerald]

Just to clarify for those out of the US. I am asking about the state registration certificate, not the title (which should be locked up safe).

There might be some confusion based on locale. Not at all!

[breadcatcher101]

I keep a copy in my truck along with my insurance card, drivers permit, copy of birth cert, fishing and hunting permit, medical insurance card, social security card, hair sample, DNA sample, sperm sample, dental X-rays, current passport type photo, votor ID card, tag receipt, gun permit and of course blood type card.

Ahh, the land of the free.

[Tribesman]

They are all in the strong box.

[Takeda Shingen]

I keep mine in the glove compartment along with my insurance card.

[TLAM Strike]

No car; no registration :03:

[AVGWarhawk]

Mine is safely tucked away inside the manual that comes with each of my vehicles. The insurance card and last emissions check paper is also found there. These are in the glove compartment. As far as coming to my house because they saw my address on a registration seems a bit stupid. Anyone could go to the phonebook, internet or just drive on by your house casing the place. I do not think a registration will spurn a car thief into become a home invasion professional. He is busy making a few drug deals , joy riding and pimping in your vehicle. Then dump it somewhere 6 miles from your address.

[Rockstar]

My registration is stored in the car's center storage box. I do have a LoJac and kill switch in car. The other security feature I use is the address on any documentation is not my home address but my mail forwarding street address.

I had a GPS for my car once. Neat gizmo those GPS but having been a driver for a little over 30 years prior to getting one. I soon realized it's just an expensive dash ornament that I didn't really have a use for.

Another security problem I found. As a passenger ferry operator people would sometimes forget and leave their keys on the boat. If they had one of those plastic key chain cards like you get from your grocer. I could go over to the local stop and rob, scan it and find out who they belonged to and where they lived.

[Sailor Steve]

I also don't currently own a car, but in the past I've always kept everything in the glove box and never thought about it. I kind of like AVG's idea, though.

[stoppro]

mine's on the key ring

[Sledgehammer427]

Connecticut requires the registration to be attached to the windshield in sticker form.
Both Volkswagens I cart around in here have them.

[HunterICX]

Glove Box, in a map where the manual and the rest of the car's paperwork is.

HunterICX

[Geno_Mariner]

Connecticut requires the registration to be attached to the windshield in sticker form.
Both Volkswagens I cart around in here have them.

Yeah we have that here in Australia too. If I'm thinking of the right thing :doh:

[Betonov]

In my car, in the insurance and manual folder.
I'd prefer to carry it around wth me, but we share the car with my father so I have to leave it in the car

[UnderseaLcpl]

Texas uses stickers, so I have no idea where my paperwork is. It's probably around here somewhere. Not that it matters, as my registration is almost two years out-of-date.

The way I see it, I registered my car when I bought it. They know who it belongs to. Purpose of registration: fulfilled. Unless of course it isn't registration at all, but an annual vehicle tax, in which case I refuse to pay because they don't have the goddamn common courtesy to refer to it as such. Even if they did, I strongly disapprove of the way TXDOT is spending the money, as does the state legislature.

[Geno_Mariner]

We'd get busted for having out of date rego around here. :hmmm:

[Gerald]

We'd get busted for having out of date rego around here. :hmmm: And the penalty is four months' hard labor with sheep shearing, because you do not have them right rego :O:

[Feuer Frei!]

as my registration is almost two years out-of-date.
Yet you drive with the car?

The way I see it, I registered my car when I bought it. They know who it belongs to. Purpose of registration: fulfilled. Unless of course it isn't registration at all, but an annual vehicle tax, in which case I refuse to pay because they don't have the goddamn common courtesy to refer to it as such. Even if they did, I strongly disapprove of the way TXDOT is spending the money, as does the state legislature.Once again, we are in total agreeance here.
I get jacked off too, considering that the actual registration fee, not the CTP (Compulsory Third Party) is bugger all. I pay approx $270 or thereabouts in just the fee of registering the car. No insurance ofc, that is extra, depending on where you live. Now, the bulk of the fee is made up of taxes for the state government. I think off by memory out of the $270-odd, $200-odd is tax. And god knows where they spend that, because one area that the money is meant for is roads, improvement of roads just to name one. And the roads are crap here. Absolutely no idea in how to build roads here.
Another thing that pisses me off is that in Queensland it is $200 dearer to register my car than in NSW!!! $200 !!!! I queried that once and was mistified at their answer: "That's just the way it is here, that's what we charge"!
Now, considering my car is only a V6, no modifications of any sort to the engine or rest of car, apart from power windows and an immobiliser, which is stock standard, and the car being less than 10 years old, what highway robbery!


We'd get busted for having out of date rego around here. :hmmm:
And in a lot of other places i would imagine.

[Geno_Mariner]

$200 dearer in QLD?! :o That is crazy. Wonder about other state's prices :-?

And yeah that's true.

[tater]

The registration is proof of taxes paid, basically (as well as passing emissions tests). It has to be kept in the vehicle in the US (along with proof of insurance).

[Betonov]

$200 dearer in QLD?! :o That is crazy. Wonder about other state's prices :-?

Slovenia: about €90 for a small car like mine. The price goes up with the engine volume

(€90 is about 120$)

[Buddahaid]

Glove box inside a ziplock bag with proof of insurance that's required by law.

[August]

Glove box inside a ziplock bag with proof of insurance that's required by law.

+ 1

[UnderseaLcpl]

Yet you drive with the car?

Certainly. I have no doubt that they'll catch me eventually and give me a ticket. I've been caught four times so far, but I only had to pay once. In the 11 years I've been driving I've paid for registration on three purchased vehicles and one ticket, for a total of roughly $450. If I had just paid my registration the cost would have been around $550, so I'm winning.

Even if I weren't, I would still refuse to pay on the basis of principle. I am not some witless cash source for wasteful, arrogant,ineffectual bureaucracies. They can try to force me to pay, but I'm going to make the bastards work for their money. It's not much of a statement, but it's a statement.


Once again, we are in total agreeance here.
I get jacked off too, considering that the actual registration fee, not the CTP (Compulsory Third Party) is bugger all. I pay approx $270 or thereabouts in just the fee of registering the car. No insurance ofc, that is extra, depending on where you live. Now, the bulk of the fee is made up of taxes for the state government. I think off by memory out of the $270-odd, $200-odd is tax. And god knows where they spend that, because one area that the money is meant for is roads, improvement of roads just to name one. And the roads are crap here. Absolutely no idea in how to build roads here.
Another thing that pisses me off is that in Queensland it is $200 dearer to register my car than in NSW!!! $200 !!!! I queried that once and was mistified at their answer: "That's just the way it is here, that's what we charge"!
Now, considering my car is only a V6, no modifications of any sort to the engine or rest of car, apart from power windows and an immobiliser, which is stock standard, and the car being less than 10 years old, what highway robbery!


Indeed. All taxation is theft, no matter what the reason behind it. At its core, the concept of taxation is no more moral than an extortion racket. Either you pay, or you pay, with your life if necessary. With such a mechanism at the heart of the idea, it's no wonder that we're often forced to pay outrageous prices for services that nobody is happy with.

Sometimes you get lucky and settle in an area where the intentions behind taxation are benign and there is a conscious effort to mitigate the cost to taxpayers. In those cases, most (including myself) are happy to pay, even if government operates at a loss. Other times, you get exactly what you would expect from a comfortable monopoly with the right to exercise force, which is to say, nothing for your money. You become a support mechanism for an entrenched social institution.

I refuse to be used like that. I demand a reasonable amount of accountability and concrete results from those I cede authority to in exchange for my consent. If they deem my demands unreasonable, they are welcome to try to take what they think they deserve, but I will not make it easy for them.

[gimpy117]

they always ask licence and registration...so in my car

[tater]

My old car failed emissions, not because of emissions—it passes fine—but because it had a computer problem. I was waiting for my appointment to take it in, and thought the "fail" was enough for the 90-day extension you get on a fail. I got pulled over for speeding, and it was NOT good enough, I needed to go to the county facility and get yet another piece of paper while I waited my week to take the car in. Major PITA.

Good news is that my sone was ringing in the back in his car seat...


wearing his police uniform costume/dress-up clothes.


I was scrounging for the emissions stuff, and the female cop looks in back, sees my super cute son, and says, "Don't worry, I'm just gonna give you a warning." (I was doing 48 in a 40 zone)

My advice, take a super cute 4 year old in a police uniform everywhere you go :)