Originally Posted by barry123400

Well here on private sales the government decides the cars value. Or you can take it to a car dealer for a forty dollar appraisal. If the dealers try to do a favour for you they jump on them as well.

A basic no win situation. Funny exclusion is when bringing an american car home. They have to accept the declared value presented at the border when importing for sales tax reasons.

What bothered me in maryland years ago was I could not get a transit permit from other than a dealer at the time. There also was an eight mile crossing of maryland in my large truck I was cautioned about to be careful of. Aparently your state raised a fair amount of change from that area like application of fines for things like a valve cap missing on a wheel.