I just got a letter from our Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA = your DVLA) that my KTM's registration will be canceled because I have no insurance. That'll be a nice big fine for every day of having no insurance please.
WHAAAA? ??? That's not what my insurance policy or insurance bill say !!!
Long story short is that in transferring title from the previous owner, the MVA clerk missed a letter of the VIN. The great MVA computer finally caught up to the fact the VIN shows 16 characters, not 17. Why this took months in the age of computers talking to each other is a mystery, but the MVA computer electronically told the insurance company computer that my vehicle does not have a valid title. Since they could not insure it, their computer told the MVA computer that my insurance was canceled. And you thought Skynet was only fiction???
It took a few days to figure this out with the help of the insurance people and they are going to cover the fines. Even though the mess started wth the MVA person.
So now it's MY problem to get the title changed. This starts with scheduling an inspection with the State police, so they can verify the VIN on the bike. This should be a 2 minute job, but they're booked for a month to inspect salvage titled vehicles which have been resurrected by people with heavy accents. (Confession is that I've btdt too) Then it's back to the MVA office where this all began for another couple of hours of waiting with the kids getting driver licenses, sloths at the counters, and Muzak.
Arrgghh - Thanks for letting me vent.
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