COVID19: I want my Sticker Extended!!

everything should be extended. hopefully, as issues arise, government will respond.

 

I'm sympathetic in that my own work has been 99% disrupted by this event as well, but you've had the opportunity to sell the car altogether, right? No point keeping it/making payments etc if you're sheltering in place and having groceries delivered?

My drivers license shows an expiration date in April, but the local DMVs are all closed and all expiration dates were administratively shifted to 6/30. Not sure how they're going to get 3 months worth of business done in the week before that date but... that's another drama.

Good luck!

 

what can you get for a 3 year old prime at this point?

 

Everybody wants compensation for everything unjust, even though things have been unjust since Cain slew Abel. Nobody said life was fair. My stickers? Yeah, I'm not driving as much but, heck, with cheap gas & nearly free electricity via solar panels for both home & cars .... we could keep driving & driving around the cities, on freeways - but it really wouldn't make me feel any better to get more value value out of them.
Now - i did complain once about horrible leather in our two Teslas (boo hoo - poor me) ... & someone pointed out that I sounded like the airplane owner in "The Jerk" movie - complaining about his leather seats;

Yea - we sure got it tough, don't we?

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I completely agree. I confess that I did start going to work this week a couple of part time days.
But I did not drive in the carpool lanes at all. I left late and there was very little traffic both ways.
So I was at home for 11 weeks and I'm not actually using the sticker now or the foreseeable future.

Mike

 

HIgh end First World problems --

If that is unfair, then why isn't a minuscule 15% reduction on 2 months of insurance also unfair? Why not a full year of free insurance AND a full year extension on the car registration too? Plus rolling back the depreciation clock a full year.

That reminds me of numerous folks who also demanded a two year extension to POTUS's term too, to compensate for the two year's "lost" to that "investigation".

Of course, none of them had any interest in giving any similar compensation to a prior POTUS who "lost" six years to "investigations".

 

Are you truly locked down to where you can't go out to exercise that carpool sticker, in sparse traffic, just for yuks?

Our restrictions were never that tight. While being discouraged from going out, and having few meaningful destinations open to go visit, there was nothing to keep us from going out occasionally to exercise the cars, circulate their fluids, and charge up the batteries.

And fortunately, outdoor exercise was always an "essential activity" here. So when the spouse would get too bored with the venues within walking or reasonable biking distance, it was occasionally "necessary" to drive to some others. Just not to any popular ones, most of which were preemptively closed. And some still are.

 

Maybe it's time to consider ditching the gasser for a Tesla?

I'm not qualified to navigate the byzantine world of Caly's carpool lane but don't Tesla drivers get to flout the carpool concept too??
Do they have to deface their cars with a sticker, or is the absence of a gas tank give them access?

It's kinda ironic that 90-something percent of the people who qualify for HOV lane access are solo operators, but that's a renewable energy device that I will joust another time.....

Stay healthy!!

 

So, how much does the carpool sticker cost?

 

Looks like $22. Excluding the cost of the qualifying vehicle.
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/65b04120-4f15-4e90-81d0-74ce63a147d6/reg1000.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=

 

OK. Then, I am sure OP has saved at least that much on gas and electricity by not driving his car while shelter-in-home.

I (and my DW together) have not received the stimulus check yet and start having a doubt receiving it ever. But truth is I don't really need any compensation. I did not lose my job, I did not get sick. In fact, I have had very little changes in my daily routine except working from home. I am very fortunate that my work can be operated 100% from home. Market crash of early March have nicely recovered. My retirement investment is now back to where it was pre-crash. And, since I am not driving my car as often, that saves gas and electricity and wear and tear on my car. Plus my insurance company gave me 15% off on my 6 month bill. Overall, I think I am in better financial shape than pre-COVID19.

 

I have a paid yearly script for access to the top level of motorcycle racing (MotoGP) that's on hiatus till (probably) next year. Since that same company also runs and partially funds the series, I let it slide.

Since your sticker in some way funds the road system, you probably should too.

 

Everyone that wants to us the carpool lane with just one driver must purchase a qualifying car AND apply for the sticker and pay the fee.
The cops only look for having the correct sticker...if they ever look.
The stickers are only good for a limited number of years then expire based on a color code

Mike