11-09-2013, 08:04 PM
I'm not sure I understand your question, but in Hawaii you need to get an annual safety inspection. It is supposed to check to make sure all your lights and seatbelts work etc but really its just another bureaucratic hurdle imposed by the nanny state to make our lives more difficult and expensive.
In every other state, if you buy a car that hasn't been registered in 20 years they rightfully assume that the people who didn't register it should be help culpable so when you go to the DMV and register a car you just bought you pay a new registration fee and go. But the nanny state doesn't work that way. In Hawaii, if you have the money to purchase a vehicle you should be punished. If previous owners didn't pay the registration fees for 20 years, you should. Or else it will never be legal to drive. That is why vehicles, and not people, have "back taxes". None of this will be an issue for you when you import a car from out of state, so go ahead, it's the safest way to buy a car here.
In every other state, if you buy a car that hasn't been registered in 20 years they rightfully assume that the people who didn't register it should be help culpable so when you go to the DMV and register a car you just bought you pay a new registration fee and go. But the nanny state doesn't work that way. In Hawaii, if you have the money to purchase a vehicle you should be punished. If previous owners didn't pay the registration fees for 20 years, you should. Or else it will never be legal to drive. That is why vehicles, and not people, have "back taxes". None of this will be an issue for you when you import a car from out of state, so go ahead, it's the safest way to buy a car here.