We’re trying to get Joulee the Free Salvage Tesla registered here on the island.
Our insurance company said to get the car registered, then they’d add it to our policy. The local DMV says you need a safety inspection before they’ll register it. The safety inspection people say that you have to have proof of on-island insurance and valid on-island registration to get your safety inspection. Aaargh!
Our insurance agent was very obliging and agreed that they could provisionally add Joulee to the policy, give us a proof-of-insurance card and we can just bring the registration by as soon as we get it.
HA found the solution to the safety inspection conundrum: apparently, you can insist they do a safety inspection even though you don’t have a valid registration, but the inspection will fail. You can then take proof of a failed inspection to the DMV, which will provisionally register your car. You can then take the provisional registration to an inspection station and get a passed inspection — presumably you have to pay for it again — and then the DMV will perfect the registration which we can then take to the insurance agent and if all the dominoes fall the right way, then we’ll have a registered, insured, safety-inspected vehicle. Whew!
All this to try to get the body shop to work with the insurance company to get the Matson-inflicted damage repaired.
—2p