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Oct 21, 2009 | 07:43 PM

#16

Tylus

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From: Pearl Harbor

btw, if I weren't exempt due to my Military status, I would be paying almost $400 for my Expy.

Mustang would run me about $300.

Hawaii is based partly on vehicle value, and wieght. crap sucks. I miss my old $55-60 a year back in Texas

Oct 22, 2009 | 04:22 AM

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code58

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From: So. Cal.

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Originally Posted by snwplow

here's an OLD post to bring up... but does anyone know or understand the rules RE the weight fee? I was reading something on a titan forum that if your truck weighs less than 6000 lbs it shouldn't qualify... I've had my '99 F150 at the scales many times and it's only 4950 with 2 people in it...

Would it be worth it to challenge DMV with a weight certificate? Has anyone tried this, or know of anyone who has? I couldn't even find out what the law was regarding what exactly the weight fee is targeted at...

Afterthought: if you had custom plates, got it registered as a passenger car with camper shell; then removed camper shell... nobody would be the wiser unless you got pulled over.... hrmm....

I guess I'm just frustrated that my 10 year old truck has an $80 weight fee bringing the total registration to $198....

Don't you just love the politicians in Kalifornie? They say you can't get blood out of a turnip- well they sure as heck try. I paid a little over $400. this year on my '04 XLT. I think that's slightly more than I paid when it was new in '04. I have been driving my wife's car most of the time because it gets about 2 or 3 times the mileage that my truck gets. I probably haven't put 500 mi on it this year. Stinks, but I have no desire to get rid of it.

Oct 22, 2009 | 06:14 AM

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PHS79

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From: Trempealeau, WI

WOW! All I can say is that I am glad that I don't live out there. The 04 F150 costs me $85 a year for 6000lb gvw plates. For the F350 that I am hopefully trading for it will be $209 for 13,000lb gvw plates, I would hate to see what it would cost to put plates on a F350 in California...

Oct 22, 2009 | 07:55 AM

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95sw21

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From: reston va

i have va truck tags.. anyways heres what i paid in the 6months ive owned my truck..
$550-that was sales tax and 1yr of plates (i think the plates are about 80bux a year)
$500-personal propertly tax- every october.

freakin sucks. kinda makes me regreat buyin this truck..

in compairison, i have a 95 mr2 turbo and it costs me ~$210 for 2 years

Last edited by 95sw21; Oct 22, 2009 at 07:58 AM.