Tags are expired, what do I do?

When you buy a vehicle you do a few things. Get insurance, transfer the title to your name, and get new tags or plates in your name.

If you do not, and drive it with expired tag, and it is not insured or in your name if you get stopped you get a ticket, your vehicle is towed and impounded, and you now have a lot to pay.

Depending on how long ago you bought the car you may now have a penalty to pay to get it registered.

You drive it and a cop sees you there will be a ticket at lease; they mite even impound the car, take a cab or walk it!

You would have to ask a psychic "what would happen?" but I will guess that it wouldn't be anything good.

Don't worry about it. Just drive in the dark. A stick is easy. Use your palm & be sure the clutch is all the way to the floor. Push your palm in the direction of the gear. Let up on the clutch as you give it gas.

🚶walk

I bet you didn't take the time to insure the car either, Cedric. If you had an encounter with a law enforcement officer for any reason you would be ticketed for both failure to show proof of vehicle registration and insurance coverage. That's big trouble.

Before you took possession of the car you needed to both insure the car and obtain temporary registration for the vehicle so it could be legally driven. You didn't so you can't without very high risk.

[a] A couple months ago is not ''just expired'' especially in the eyes of the law.

[b] Presumably the car isn't insured either. If you got pulled over or broke down and the police stopped to investigate you would be fined a presumptive amount of $260 for no insurance and $83 for expired tags plus $150 in processing fees plus up to $1000 more in court-imposed fines plus another $150 in reinstatement fees. Your driver's license would be suspended for at least 30 days and there is a 75 reinstatement fee for that. And your vehicle will get towed and impounded which will cost you hundreds more and the daily storage fee will compound by about $45 per day. If and when you do register the car the insurance will be higher. All in all it could cost you about two grand. Whatever you need to do in Bend isn't worth the risk so don't be a bigger idiot than you already are

Call a police station and ask those questions. Say you're doing it as part of driver's education class / homework.

Uber is a option .

Since it's not registered, it's also not insured. Not being insured, being pulled over is the least of your worries. If you cause an accident and total someone's car and/or injure or kill someone, your life would be over as you now know it. Not only would you be charged criminally, but you and your family would be sued for all costs and expenses -- and you have no insurance to back you up. It would be very stupid of you to drive the car without it being registered and insured.