After 8 months, I finally got my plates...
06-01-2004, 05:44 PM
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After 8 months, I finally got my plates...
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This whole license plate thing is now kind of comic, though it was pretty annoying at the time.
Some of the old timers might remember that I've had a TNT TT vanity plate since my first TT years ago. However, I figured that a new TT deserved new plates, so I ordered the new 9-11 memorial plates because I felt that they looked sharper and also because most of the money from the sale of the plates would go to a good cause. Furthermore, the deco font of the plate is similar to the TT's font on the instrument cluster and such.
I turned in my old personalized plates to the DMV and ordered new ones back around October or so. The 3.2 TTR arrived in early December, but the vanity plates weren't ready just yet. Finally, somewhere around Feb, I received the call that the new TNT TT plates were in.
However, I still hadn't received the standard license plates that were assigned to the TT and I couldn't put the vanity plates on until the standard plates were in hand.
So I waited and waited. After a couple more months the standard plates arrived. I took them to the DMV so that I could swap them for the personalized plates. However, upon my arrival, I saw that the DMV had screwed up and issued plates for TN TTT as opposed to TNT TT. I rejected the plates and asked them to re-do them with the correct spacing.
Meanwhile, I noted that my registration showed VW Credit Corp as the lienholder when I owned the TT outright. So I contacted Audi and after weeks I received the corrected registration and pink slip. However, the address was slightly wrong, so I had to have that corrected as well.
Quite some time passed and I hadn't heard anything about my replacement vanity plates. So I contacted the DMV and was told that rather than remake the plates, the DMV had cancelled them placed TNT TT back into the pool of available configurations!
So I had to write a letter to the DMV explaining the situation and the fact that I had paid for the plates back in October and that I really didn't want them cancelled.
They eventually reordered them and a couple of days ago, the plates finally arrived, this time done correctly. I think they look nice, but I'm not so sure that it was really worth the trouble!
This whole license plate thing is now kind of comic, though it was pretty annoying at the time.
Some of the old timers might remember that I've had a TNT TT vanity plate since my first TT years ago. However, I figured that a new TT deserved new plates, so I ordered the new 9-11 memorial plates because I felt that they looked sharper and also because most of the money from the sale of the plates would go to a good cause. Furthermore, the deco font of the plate is similar to the TT's font on the instrument cluster and such.
I turned in my old personalized plates to the DMV and ordered new ones back around October or so. The 3.2 TTR arrived in early December, but the vanity plates weren't ready just yet. Finally, somewhere around Feb, I received the call that the new TNT TT plates were in.
However, I still hadn't received the standard license plates that were assigned to the TT and I couldn't put the vanity plates on until the standard plates were in hand.
So I waited and waited. After a couple more months the standard plates arrived. I took them to the DMV so that I could swap them for the personalized plates. However, upon my arrival, I saw that the DMV had screwed up and issued plates for TN TTT as opposed to TNT TT. I rejected the plates and asked them to re-do them with the correct spacing.
Meanwhile, I noted that my registration showed VW Credit Corp as the lienholder when I owned the TT outright. So I contacted Audi and after weeks I received the corrected registration and pink slip. However, the address was slightly wrong, so I had to have that corrected as well.
Quite some time passed and I hadn't heard anything about my replacement vanity plates. So I contacted the DMV and was told that rather than remake the plates, the DMV had cancelled them placed TNT TT back into the pool of available configurations!
So I had to write a letter to the DMV explaining the situation and the fact that I had paid for the plates back in October and that I really didn't want them cancelled.
They eventually reordered them and a couple of days ago, the plates finally arrived, this time done correctly. I think they look nice, but I'm not so sure that it was really worth the trouble!
