Re: Registering a trailer without serial numbers
I like that idea although I know tampering with a vin is a felony.....even on a trailer.
Correct, but the way PA DMV laws are on homemade trailers, they force many of us to become felons. So many states have such simple homemade trailer laws, why not in PA? His best bet is to just run over to NJ and register it, he can register it as a PA resident as a homemade trailer with no problem. If they do ask, but I doubt they will, just say you boat in NJ.
I've been through this over and over with PA trailers. There is a way to get a new VIN but it requires an inspection of the trailer and some money.
If it were me, I'd buy a junk trailer, use it's title, or just register it out of state.
Here in NJ, I'd venture to guess that more than half of the trailers on the road are registered as home made with no VIN. They assign it a new VIN at the time of registration, most people just register one trailer as home made and use the tag on any trailer. Right or wrong, it works, and anyhow, it's just a trailer. There's probably just as many people here running around with no tags or long expired tags. They just don't bother to check. I towed one trailer for years before finally renewing the tag, it was over 10 years out of date, I got pulled over several times, only once did I have an officer say that I'd best get that trailer renewed, the tags are expired.