Date:         Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:24:31 -0600
Reply-To:     Ralph Meyermann <ralphmeyermann@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Ralph Meyermann <ralphmeyermann@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: titling and registering camper in Washington
Comments: To: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@yahoo.com>
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In Iowa mine is a camper van

Velma 82 1.9L AAZ TD Westy
On Jan 14, 2015 4:17 PM, "Robert Keezer" <warmerwagen@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Part of $110.00 extra fees RV's (motorhomes) are charged every year is for
> the disposal of holding tank (sewage) waste, and RV weight fees, both that
> don't apply to a Westfalia. Find another agency and state the vehicle you
> registering is a Volkswagen Vanagon.I have never had a problem at my local
> agency.Robert1982 Westfalia
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>       From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
>  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>  Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 1:08 PM
>  Subject: titling and registering camper in Washington
>
> I have run into something unexpected in moving my camper to Washington.
> The clerk at the registration office asked me if my camper is a motor
> home.  I said "No," because it is not.  She agreed, saying that her
> computer registration program identified it, by its vin, as a passenger
> car.  But another lady, at a different booth, spoke up, saying that it is a
> motor home. The two disagreed, so they called someone else, saying that
> they can always rely on him for correct information. He said it was a
> passenger car.
>
> OK, everything was cool.  But the other woman intervened again, asking me
> if the van had a bed.  It does.  She then asked if it had a sewage holding
> tank.  It does not.  She asked then if it has cooking facilities or a
> refrigerator.  It has both.  She declared it to be a motor home.  The first
> woman was non-plussed.  I told her that I would title and license the
> vehicle "later," and she said she thought that was a good idea, and that
> she would check further for me, and let me know what she found out.
>
> It seems to me that if the registration program recognizes it as a
> passenger vehicle, and the departmental expert, consulted because he is the
> expert, agrees, then the second woman is just butting in, but what do I
> know.
>
> So, fellow VW Campmobile owning Washingtonians, how are yor camper's
> titled and registered, as passenger vehicles or motor homes?
>
> Thanks,David McNeely
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