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How to Register the car and get tags in Hawaii
dsmith: You did a great job documenting the steps and repeats of getting your car registered and tagged. With Hawaii owners help this gecko has been chased all around the room. But I am hopeful we can get a little more. Maybe some of us going through this can add still more detail to simplify for the next. It would be great if anyone can add the name of the city employee that they worked with in these steps. It would be useful to talk to the city employee that is already helped a Tesla owner, such as one that helps with VIN verification. Can anyone remember name or even male/female at the different city places you worked with?
Anyone: where did ya'll go for your safety inspection?
My Garage reports my status as car is being built. When mine gets on island and I begin my tagging process, I promise to give back what all of you have already done so well. Thank you.
JKams, guide should work in most cases but in my case my VIN wasn't put into the system and I had to take it to the compliance office to get them to visually inspect the car VIN.
the compliance office is where you would take your vehicle to get the reconstruction sticker if you made major/non-standard changes to your vehicle. an example of this would be if you jacked your truck's suspension about 6 feet higher than stock. they would inspect your vehicle for road worthiness and issue you the sticker to go along side your normal safety stickers. no stickers in my case, they just needed to see the car and sign the form.
these are the steps I took:
1. Tax office (missing the final configuration sheet that had the personal delivery charges)
2. Tax office 2nd try success, (4.5% on MVPA less personal delivery charges)
3.. Ala Moana Satellite City hall (forgot my safety inspection)
4. Safety Inspection, needed proof of insurance (got blue form)
5. Ala Moana Satellite City hall (VIN not in system request for inspection submitted, (also informed Tesla that HI did not get my VIN), told to wait on phone call for appointment)
6. Wait for phone call 1-2 business days (no phone call)
7. Kalihi Satellite City hall (VIN still not in system. request for inspection resubmitted, told to wait on phone call for appointment)
8. Wait for phone call 1-2 business days (phone call 1 business day later)
9. appointment for next day 7AM, recieved VIN Verification form.
10 Ala Moana Sattelete City hall, turned in all forms, Paid registration fee (just over $400), recieved plates.
11 Rear plates attached with safety inspection sticker bracket. (Note: tesla provided screws use allen wrench to secure. the ones holding the factory tesla frame are phillips head)
12 tomorrow: will mount plate using the 5/16" "toilet bolt" method. (or zip tie if it takes me longer than 10 minutes to mount...)
13 tomorrow: will take to original place I got the blue safety inspection form and get the permanent forms. (white and goldenrod?)
dsmith: You did a great job documenting the steps and repeats of getting your car registered and tagged. With Hawaii owners help this gecko has been chased all around the room. But I am hopeful we can get a little more. Maybe some of us going through this can add still more detail to simplify for the next. It would be great if anyone can add the name of the city employee that they worked with in these steps. It would be useful to talk to the city employee that is already helped a Tesla owner, such as one that helps with VIN verification. Can anyone remember name or even male/female at the different city places you worked with?
Anyone: where did ya'll go for your safety inspection?
My Garage reports my status as car is being built. When mine gets on island and I begin my tagging process, I promise to give back what all of you have already done so well. Thank you.