MN and Car Titles

[Alpine TSi]

Well when I bought my GVR4 they had said they were 12-14 weeks out on titles. I got the title in just under 3 weeks. Don't know why.

[curt_gendron]

The State sure varies a lot on titles. I've waited up to eight weeks for a title. On the other extreme, when I bougt my Stealth in 2000, I got the title in one week!!! I was so stunned I called up the Twilight Zone to make sure I was still on planet Earth. :)

later,
Curt

[Kracka]

I sent the title on for my S2000 in Feb...I'm still waiting. I'm going to have to make some calls, something must have gotten screwed up :(

[JET]

I bought my bike in May and had the title in under 6 weeks :D

[Halon]

I also submitted the title for my talon in May to be switched from Nevada to MN. Still haven't gotten it.

[Matt D.]

lucius is still waiting on the title for his Eclipse, I think he's close to 8 weeks of waiting now.

[xluciusx]

Yep, may 27 transfer, still waiting for title.
My roommate bought his honduh a week or 2 before me and got his title a week and a half ago :(

[Goat Blower]

Yes. When I got the 2G they didn't have the title on hand so there was actually 2 other state forms that can be filled out to take the place of the title itself while waiting. That's all I know.
Sorry, this doesn't apply to private party sales. These two forms are the PS2000 and the Supplemental Dealer Reassignment forms, both are used by dealers since a title doesn't necessarily come with the car on the day of sale.

The answer is that you can sell the car without the title, but the buyer takes a pretty big risk of not getting the title from the seller if they are a private party. If you're good friends with the seller and you trust them, than it's no big deal unless you need tabs, in which case you need a title or at least a copy of it to get tabs. Horror stories related to this would be that Joe Blow sells a car without the title because he took out a loan against it and it has a lien. The seller figures this out when the seller never produces a title or it can't be transferred until the lien is satisfied.

Dealers are watched pretty closely, so your chances of problems with a dealer as far as title transfer is concerned are very minimal. You have the backing of the state when buying from us clowns. ;)

[AJ]

Sweet, good info!

[dsm95gsxer]

What ever you do when filling out a title don't screw any thing up it's not fun filling out correction forms especially when the original owner is long gone.