After getting this straightened out, it sounds like time to request a new, different, historical plate to prevent future violations. No reason to assume the other driver will improve.

 

Most definitely will be doing that. I have some Michigan 1966 Water Wonderland plates that I think I will be looking into using as year of manufacture plate. My historical plate expires in 2023.

 

I got a ticket in the mail for "my" car trailer. Well I knew the trailer was parked at the time of the ticket. I called the # on the ticket and after a surprisingly short time on hold a DMV lady came on, looked at her picture of the violator and I was off the hook. Perhaps you will get lucky and you can convince them your Mustang does not fit the description of the car, and the license plate is actually different. Good luck

 

When all alone in the garage, my 1970 Mach 1 enjoys the passing of time and appreciates the shelter I provide. My Mustang recalls the times in the last row at the drive-in with sensimilla smoke rolling from the windows and a doobie resting on a "Zeppelin III" 8-track cassette. A half-dozen incense sticks are poking out of the radio speaker holes in the dash board and adding a strong, jasmine scent to the skunky atmosphere. "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" is on a giant screen up front, but the two people in the car aren't paying much attention. One is fumbling with a small foil packet labelled "Trojan" while the other takes a few sips her Coca-Cola in a paper cup and places it back on the glove box door. Coors long neck bottles clink together on the floor boards behind the front seat as the guy in the driver seat fidgets. It all started with a chance meeting at a local tavern in Las Cruces a few weeks earlier. She was shy and typically didn't talk to strange men, but this guy seemed nice and she had watched him pull into the parking lot driving a really cool car. While Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently" played on the jukebox, she scribbled her phone number on a cocktail napkin and, in perfect cursive, wrote, "Denise" above it just before handing it to a smiling young man.

This is all based on evidence I recovered while removing the interior ten years ago.

 

When all alone in the garage, my 1970 Mach 1 enjoys the passing of time and appreciates the shelter I provide. My Mustang recalls the times in the last row at the drive-in with sensimilla smoke rolling from the windows and a doobie resting on a "Zeppelin III" 8-track cassette. A half-dozen incense sticks are sticking out of the radio speaker holes in the dash board and adding a strong, jasmine scent to the skunky atmosphere. "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" is on a giant screen up front, but the two people in the car aren't paying much attention. One is fumbling with a small foil packet labelled "Trojan", while the other takes a few sips her Coca-Cola in a paper cup and places it back on the glove box door. Coors long neck bottles clink together on the floor boards behind the front seat as the guy in the driver seat fidgets. It all started with a chance meeting at a local tavern in Las Cruces a few weeks earlier. She was shy and typically didn't talk to strange men, but this guy seemed nice and she had watched him pull into the parking lot driving a really cool car. While Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently" played on the jukebox, she scribbled her phone number on a cocktail napkin and, in perfect cursive, wrote, "Denise" above it just before handing it to a smiling young man.

This is all based on evidence I recovered while removing the interior ten years ago.

Thank goodness ,for a moment I thought the post was you reminuseining about your youth( or present life until I got to the 8 track part then it was nope not happening ). Could have though.

But it did make me smile & think back to my days as a wild child . Stared in that movie. But unlike a lot of people who will stand there & tell you they did'nt inhale ,I won't lie ,I did.


Merry Christmas to everyone .

 

When I’m not looking, mine leaks. Engine oil, transmission fluid, power steering fluid, rearend fluid, coolant, you name it.

 

Mine just rusts.

 

I had a similar experience years ago. I had just bought a brand new 2003 Volkswagen Jetta. The car had about 100 miles on it. I'm in Colorado and I received a ticket in the mail from New Orleans, Louisiana. They wanted me to pay a fine for illegally parking downtown. The ticket listed the car as an older Pontiac. The license plate numbers matched mine, but I suspect it was a Connecticut plate and the person writing the ticket wrote "CO" instead of "CT". So, I got the ticket in Colorado. I had to call New Orleans multiple times. It was supposed to be all worked out, then I got a notice claiming I had failed to appear in court and had been tried in absentia. Oh, and of course there was another fine.

It took a few more phone calls, but I eventually got it worked out. Yeah, it would have been easier to pay the fine, but I wanted to stand my ground on principle.

 

About 40 years ago a friend of mine in Odessa, TX received a bill from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for landing fees at LaGuardia airport which was not an insignificant amount of money. The bill had the N number of my friend's airplane which they had used to find his address. After a few phone calls to the Port Authority trying to convince them (unsuccessfully) he had not flown his Cessna 152 (!!!) into LGA he had to get a lawyer to write them a Cease and Desist letter. They finally got the message that he was not going to pay the bill.

 

This past year, my F-150 has been caught five times crossing the Golden Gate bridge in SanFran, wearing its old CA tag, which was turned into the DMV over ten years ago, and now wears Louisiana tags. It takes me about an hour on the phone with the bay area toll people to get this straightened out each time.

 

Issue resolved. Two phone calls to Michigan Secretary of State which were ZERO help. It took two phone calls to the agency in California that mailed me the violation and finally got lucky by reaching a helpful person who understood the issue and instantly could look at their computer system and without giving names of people associated with each plate and confirm that they could access two different types of Michigan license plates with the same six numbers. Why is it that an outside organization in a different state could answer that question for me, but the Secretary of State of Michigan could not? At least the agency in California also said they could red flag my plate to not send future violations from the actual violater to me. Fingers crossed that I receive their letter of dismissal as requested and never hear from them again.

 

... Why is it that an outside organization in a different state could answer that question for me, but the Secretary of State of Michigan could not? ...

I'm sure the answer to this is the same answer that applies far too often - that being it all comes down to the person you are talking to. Just be glad you finally spoke to a person that was willing to help you. All the others you spoke with never even tried doing their job.

 

Mine thinks of ways it can inflict pain on its owner... busted knuckles, bruises, cuts, banged head... you know the drill.

 

Sharpening the edges of the vent windows?

 

Glad you got it sorted. There was a report in the news a while back about all of the lost money for tolls on toll bridges across the Ohio River at Louisville. Said a high percentage (maybe 40%) of vehicles were not billed for crossings as their plates were not able to be read by the computerized system.

The system kind of sucks. This is not for toll violators though....if you don't have EZ Pass, it's the only way you are billed for tolls.

I think I've only crossed one of the toll bridges since they installed the system, but I know I never got a bill. Kind of opposite of OP's problem.

 

I had an incident a few years ago getting billed for crossing the bridge...and back. I emailed them to protest because the highway department had a section of 71 blocked off and were directing folks to detour across the river and back. I was surprised that I got a very quick response telling me no problem, forget about it. Of course, the time stamps on the pictures showing my truck going across and returning 2 minutes later was probably very telling. I won't mention the times that I have occasionally crossed with tailgate down....

 

once got an EZ pass bill for my DD crossing the GWB and NJ Tpike tolls.. was about $125
they told me I put my plate on a tractor trailer.
took me along time to convince them i never drove a tractor trailer nor do i know how
and havent been to NJ in years and the plate never left my possession

then they tried to tell me someone may have borrowed my plates and its still my responsibility
after a few months they couldn't produce a picture it finally went away as a one time courtesy no less

i since cancelled my auto CC refill. when i need to use EZ pass I just upload the $$ i need for the trip

 

We had this happen twice. Once with a plate number we used to own but had been replaced and they apparently reissued the number to someone at the other end of the state. The end time we could never figure out. They sent us the bill and a pic of a car that was definitely not ours and the plate was unreadable. Why they decide it was hips who knows. Fl has a website you can go to and easily dispute the bill. But naturally they don’t advertise it, I had to wait on hold to talk to a person, only to be told about the website. I think they figure most folks will just pay the $10 toll and move on.

 

I think they figure most folks will just pay the $10 toll and move on.

So much truth in your last sentence

John

 

This works for me.

Or this

 

I bought mine in June this year, and for a while, she was always judging me.. whether I was better than her former owner. Well I have proved that to her so she likes me now. She lives in quiet comfort and wonders when I'm going to come out and spend time with her. She's going to love me when she sees the new wheels and tires that I'm getting her for Christmas!

 

Mine sits in the carport, waiting for the days or nights we can go for a drive and reminisc all the great times we've had for the last 30 years, and we hope we have at least 30 more.

 

Mine sits out in the weather and comes up with issues to keep me on my toes, and at times to p!ss me off. Once I get a garage built, I wonder if all these small issues will go away when the car doesn't have to get baked in the sun, drenched in the rain, shiver in the cold, scrubbed by the dust storms, etc.

 

I had a red light camera mailed to my house, not the right plate number or the F-350 I drive, I argued with the person on the phone that it wasn’t me and finally said I want to report my stolen Mercedes that was on the video, problem resolved, something I’ve been seeing more and more drivers are burning partially of their plates numbers so on red light cameras they can’t get ticketed , if there’s a will there’s a way

 

Most mistakes like this can be handled by contacting the DA. They have the authority to drop a ticket. I would contact him/her directly and explain the situation. If they still give you grief, I would just say “then I’ll simply not pay the ticket, you can put a warrant out for me, and when/if I ever get pulled in you can suffer the embarrassment by the judge.”

The last part is probably not the most pragmatic approach. But like you, I am fed up with being told that these kinds of issues are MY problem, when there are few reasonable avenues for contacting the correct people. I work to support my family. I don’t have time to sit on hold, wait for call backs, request documents, bla bla bla.

 

I doubt the DA would even take a phone call from the average citizen let alone do anything about a toll or parking ticket. Likely they have bigger fish to fry.

 

Most of these red light cameras and tolls are monitored and penalties issued by private companies and they're a civil infraction instead of a violation or crime. They can try to bill you all they want but have no authority to actually do anything until a police organization asks a court to impose a violation. For the record (no pun intended) it IS A CRIME to alter, deface or obscure a license plate and the penalty for that is worse than a toll or traffic cam violation, at least around where I live and work, and can land you in jail.
My next door neighbor got a ticket in the mail for running a red light, and it clearly showed a small female with long hair driving a car that was still technically in his name, but he's 6 feet and scruffy. It was his ex-wife cruising thru a red light in a car she was just renewing the registration on rather than having it changed over like they agreed. He rightly refused to pay and had the old registration canceled. The next ticket she got was for failure to register the car and she crashed it not long after...

 

I was the victim of a mistaken identity once when I had my corvette. I rolled into the company parking lot and was immediately surrounded by 4 LAPD cop cars. They were out(behind their doors) and pointing hand guns and shot guns before I even got out of my car. Apparently or so I was told, another car looking just like mine was on the freeway and somebody was waving a shot gun at people. The police tried to not believe that it wasn't me and kept trying to figure out how to lift the back glass on my car. I told them numerous times that it did not lift up. They finally decided I wasn't who they were looking for and left and nope, no appologies.

 

Its out on look out since it wont start lol

 

All I know is that I had a pink Maverick parked near my Shelby for a while, and later there were a couple Pintos in the back yard.

 

She spends most of her time in the car cover crying. I'm not sure if it's because the new left rear tire keeps going flat( I know ,but I just have not had the time) or because I keep hauling the new head & cam around instead of installing it, ( I know see the first excuse).
My youngest daughter came down the other day & we were sitting in the newley mostley finished space on the lower level( that I have been busting my ass on the last month or so to get finished for Christmas) & she said dad if you guys don't leave me this place I'm really going to be pissed because I've been waiting all my life to get in this lower level. We both laughed because its true(,but see my first excuse)

 

In Texas, apparently the plates stay with the car. My brother traded in a 77 Volare for a pickup.
About 8 months later, he was awakened by someone knocking on the door. It was a mistake to answer in boxers, as they cuffed him and took him in like that because next owner of the car had been robbing 7-11s.
Dealer had sold the car, and never transferred registration.
Took him half a day to get that sorted out.

 

In Texas, apparently the plates stay with the car. My brother traded in a 77 Volare for a pickup.
About 8 months later, he was awakened by someone knocking on the door. It was a mistake to answer in boxers, as they cuffed him and took him in like that because next owner of the car had been robbing 7-11s.
Dealer had sold the car, and never transferred registration.
Took him half a day to get that sorted out.

That's why you ALWAYS need to immediately submit the VTR-346 (Texas Motor Vehicle Transfer Notification ) to the state showing the car was sold.Every state should have something like that available.