I don't see how unless you paid a bundle for it. I can't get titles to vehicles I clearly own and can produce every VIN number they could possibly want, they find them after a search but no way do you get that title until you satisfy that lien issue with paperwork showing the lien is released as of NOW. Even final payment with acct. # and VIN and showing the bill is paid does not work. Even if it was signed off by the company once before, the state has tossed all record of that. One of my bikes is a CB550 and they are telling me I have to get a release from a dealership that disappeared many years ago. Bike was licensed in 2009 and they do not care, they show the physical company as still existing even though nothing is even at the address they state the company is located at, it's a vacant lot now. One car licensed only 2 years ago in the same situation. Even with my having the last registration recorded as to me. Several of them are one owner only and that being me.
I had clear 'no lien' titles on every single vehicle I own seeing this kind of stuff coming, yet the wife misplaced them...................grrrrr. Already got 3 of them cleared and new titles but the others are messing with me.
To top it off, I asked the clerk why they were doing this and he told me that getting clear title release was the responsibility of the individual not the business yet the law clearly states the BUSINESS as being the one required to send lien releases to the state. I showed that LAW to him and the look I got back then was pretty miffed to say the least. I thought he was going to pull in a DPS officer on me for making trouble there for a second.
Beware letting a year lapse without registering, that's what seems to trigger it. If you are current then no issue.
I hear other states are going to the same to weed out as many records as they can, the servers are just getting too full and they need to clear some room out and of course the normal guy on the street has to suffer through that. Here in Texas it may have started with the inspection/license (March this year) at the same time thing. Lord knows the DMV has choked on that one, the offices now have 10X the crowds they used to and many are over title issues. Go in too late in the month now and instead of 30 people in front of you there's 500, you can't even get into the offices some days now.
