One of the responsibilities of car ownership is renewing your registration every year. New Jersey car registration is a reasonably straightforward process, but there are multiple ways to get it done. We’ll review the best ways to deal with registration renewal if you live in Englewood, NJ.
Receiving Your Notice from MVC
The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission will send you a friendly reminder when your registration is up for renewal. Your dealer, of course, takes care of the initial registration when you buy a vehicle from them with financing, but every year after that, it’s up to you to ensure your registration is renewed by the due date on this notice.
Doing it the Hard Way
Going to your nearest MVC location and waiting in a long line is probably not your best bet. Sometimes handling a registration renewal in person is necessary, for example, if you have not renewed by the deadline, if you have a Power of Attorney you need to show to renew someone else’s registration, or if there is some other complicating factor that requires you to deal with a person face to face.
Residents of Englewood, NJ
If you live in Englewood, you already know that there’s not a MVC location in our town. This means that if you need to renew your registration in person, you have to go to the MVC location in Lodi, Paramus, or North Bergen. Thankfully, there are other options, and they’re only 15 miles away.
Better Options for New Jersey Car Registration Renewal
In our opinion, renewing a registration online is by far the easiest method for anyone who has internet access. It can be done in less than 10 minutes, and you don’t have to leave the comfort of your home.
Your renewal notice includes a PIN that allows you to securely enter your information on the New Jersey MVC car registration website. The easy-to-follow prompts on this site will ask you for the PIN, as well as your Social Security Number and insurance policy number. The prompts will then take you to the payment screen, where you can take care of your fee using any major credit card. Your registration documents will arrive in the mail shortly thereafter.
Using the Return Envelope
If you’d prefer to pay the renewal fee using a money order or check, then you can still avoid waiting in an MVC lineup by using the return envelope that comes with your renewal notice. Simply fill out your Registration Renewal form front and back (it will ask for the same information as the online form) and put it in the return envelope along with your payment. You will also need to include proof of insurance (a photocopied insurance statement should suffice).
The Emissions Inspection
Your notice will also include a reminder about an emissions inspection every two years. This inspection is mandatory, although certain vehicles are exempt (if you’re unsure, give us a call, and we can let you know if your car is on this list).
At DARCARS Lexus of Englewood, we are dedicated to offering you the information you need to make your driving experience as straightforward as possible. If your vehicle needs an auto service before you can renew your registration, you can conveniently schedule it online now! We look forward to serving you.
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NEW JERSEY – The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission has added 17 more vehicle types to its online registration renewal and replacement services. This will allow more customers to conduct their NJMVC business without the need for a visit to an agency.
This expansion of online services is made possible through a new document upload feature on the NJMVC website that will allow the efficient and secure upload of required documents by customers so these specific 17 registrations can be renewed or replaced online. The new document upload feature paves the way for even more NJMVC services to be offered online in the future.
“This announcement will impact more than 80,000 vehicles in New Jersey. It’s a significant milestone for the NJMVC as we continue to build out our capacity for online services,” said NJMVC Chief Administrator Sue Fulton. “Our goal is to push as many transactions online as possible for improved customer service and convenience, and with safety and security still foremost in mind.”
As of Feb. 24, the following additional vehicle registration codes are newly eligible for online renewal and replacement:
- taxi (Code 13)
- limousine (Code 14)
- school bus I (Code 17)
- school bus II (Code 18)
- special road machinery trailer (Code 23)
- farm truck (Code 31)
- light duty tow truck (Code 32)
- heavy duty tow truck (Code 33)
- solid waste dual reg (Code 39)
- constructor dual reg (Code 41)
- farm use (Code 51)
- agricultural tractor (Code 52)
- contractor equipment in transit (Code 56)
- migrant farm worker (Code 58)
- 55,000 lbs. or commercial vehicles 55,000 lbs. or more (Code 11)
- non-commercial vehicles 55,000 lbs. (Code 16)
- ambulance no fee (Code 12)
Customers with vehicles in the above categories will be eligible to use the new document upload feature to submit documents and renew their registration online only if it has not expired before Sept. 2021.
A request for a duplicate or replacement registration online for these vehicle codes will not require the uploading of documents.
Additionally, customers who have received renewal notices for vehicles in the above categories with an expiration before June 2022 will not get the required PIN preprinted on their application for renewal. To renew online, these customers will have to request a PIN through the NJMVC’s online PIN request service. The PIN request service also is embedded in the process for online registration renewal at the NJMVC website.
The NJMVC has steadily moved transactions online throughout the pandemic so that about 80% of all transactions can now be completed online. These 17 added vehicle codes will push the figure of vehicle registration renewals and replacements that can be completed online closer to 100%.
For motor vehicle services, visit NJMVC.gov.
Born and raised in Northwest NJ, Jay has a degree in Communications and has had a life-long interest in local radio and various styles of music. Jay has held numerous jobs over the years such as stunt car driver, bartender, voice-over artist, traffic reporter (award winning), NY Yankee maintenance crewmember and peanut farm worker. His hobbies include mountain climbing, snowmobiling, cooking, performing stand-up comedy and he is an avid squirrel watcher. Jay has been a guest on America’s Morning Headquarters,program on The Weather Channel, and was interviewed by Sam Champion.
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