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“Has anyone else dealt with duplicate or falsified DC plates? We’re still getting tickets for a car that isn’t ours.”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

I’m wondering if anyone else in DC has experienced this — our legitimate DMV plates appear to have been duplicated and used on another vehicle.

Over the past few years, my wife and I have received multiple citations for a Honda minivan we don’t own, even though our plates have always been on our Jeep Grand Cherokee. DMV investigators told us this could be part of a larger fraud issue involving counterfeit metal plates being produced and sold — possibly using real DMV plate data.

A few years ago, (more…)

Quite the Bug on the DC DMV’s Online Registration System this Weekend, But All is Well Today

By Prince Of Petworth

Update: “They’ve addressed the issue as of this morning and responded to my message I sent to them over the weekend. If anything, it was a really prompt response from DC DMV.”

Thanks to all who sent word over the weekend:

“Dear PoPville,

I am on the DC DMV site to re-register our family car. To my surprise, the final tally, including re-upping our parking pass, was over $3500! What gives? Seems like this should be $350. Anyone else having this problem with the online portal or have the fees actually radically increased?” (more…)

“DC DMV Vehicle renewal portal has been down for over 2 days”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

I did my required car inspection two days ago at 1PM. After I finished the inspection I went online to pay for it before my inspection expires on Jul 20th. The site has been down, saying it will go back online the next morning.

When I checked the next morning, Jul 19th it said it will be back that evening by 6pm.
This keeps on happening again and again. Not only does the site stay down, they keep changing not only the time it will be back online but the time it went down! Basically, they are lying the site has only been down since yesterday, where it has been down for at least 2 days.

The problem is that now that my inspection expired and I haven’t paid for the new one I will get charged with penalty fees – $20 per day. And there’s nothing I can do about it! The site is down, obviously someone fked up or did something terribly wrong because their original estimation of yesterday is far off and it’s still down, and they just blantly lie about the downtime.

This is from yesterday: (more…)

Coming Soon: “More Secure Driver Licenses and ID Cards for District Residents”

By Prince Of Petworth

From the DMV:

“The DC Department of Motor Vehicles (DC DMV) is bridging technology, exceptional security and an unparalleled design that is uniquely DC with the release of DC’s newly designed driver licenses and identification cards. Created in partnership with Thales Group, this new design will help protect DC residents from identity theft. (more…)

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