# New York DMV Adhesive Subcontractor: You Suck! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 6, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960 "2009-06-06T23:27:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960/1 "2009-06-06T23:27:34Z")
Within a month of getting my inspection sticker, it started falling off. You can get a fine for failing to properly display your inspection sticker (they assume you don’t have one because its supposed get stuck there by the mechanic and STAY there). Fine I put some tape on and got on with my life. Now my registration sticker is coming off. (a fine there too, and probably a court appearance to prove you really WERE registered). The last sticker I got (2 years ago) was stuck so well I had to almost chip it off with a butterknife. The new one hasn’t even lasted 5 months. Cheap adhesive. J’accuse!!! ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960/2 "2009-06-07T00:48:14Z")
I have had 3 cars registered in NY since I moved here two years ago. Every one of them, I had to tape the registration sticker on within a day of putting it in the window. Never had a problem with the inspection stickers though. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960/3 "2009-06-07T01:19:30Z")
It’s been that way for decades. When I was a kid in the 1970s, the registration sticker of my parents’ car was always falling off. On the first car I owned, the registration sticker constantly fell off; I resorted to tape to keep it up. Unlike other types of stickers, the NYS registration sticker leaves a hard residue. Change it, though, and people will complain. Tradition! I’ve met old farts that are _still_ upset that New York license plates are no longer orange. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960/4 "2009-06-07T02:51:55Z")
Ah, I see the gluemaker the commonwealth used a few yarin ago was the low bidder. This years crisis is going to be the fact that the red ink on this years inspection stickers is not UV safe—now March’s stickers are becoming white. Hopefully it will make the idiots who can not be bothered to get their cars inspected get nailed—the living brain donor upstairs from me is still driveing around with a two-years expired sticker on his car. You would think some short-on-his-quota cop would have bagged his uninspected ass by now… ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960/5 "2009-06-07T03:36:07Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > Hopefully it will make the idiots who can not be bothered to get their cars inspected get nailed—the living brain donor upstairs from me is still driveing around with a two-years expired sticker on his car. You would think some short-on-his-quota cop would have bagged his uninspected ass by now… Wow. That’s not how they roll in Queens. I once got a ticket for being expired by about 12 hours. I don’t think any force conceived in the mind of man can remove my Virginia registration sticker. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960/6 "2009-06-07T22:18:35Z")
I’m going to guess this is not something Jersey uses, because all I can think as I read this is “what the hell is a registration sticker?” However, I did have a cop seriously question the fact that my inspection sticker was taped on. It took a lot of convincing that it was only taped there because the original adhesive didn’t work for shit. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960/7 "2009-06-08T01:08:54Z")
I think Florida must be using the same subcontractor now. I recently got a new registration sticker and it’s now on a slip of paper instead of the usual sticker backing. When I first try to peel it off it actually starts to peel the top of the sticker off. So I tried a different corner and peeled off the sticker and the print was all flakey. It looks like the print will wear off quickly unless the sticker falls off first. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960/8 "2009-06-08T18:37:41Z")
FYI, the DMV knows about the problem and suggests you just[tape the sticker back up.](http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/press/pr050609.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960/9 "2009-06-08T18:54:22Z")
If it’s of any consolation to you I just this morning looked at my New York State inspection and registration stickers. They’re still stuck on the windshield and that was two states and six years ago. They both expired in 2003 and are still firmly affixed. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960/10 "2009-06-09T02:26:02Z")
> [@Billdo](#): > > FYI, the DMV knows about the problem and suggests you just[tape the sticker back up.](http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/press/pr050609.htm) Haha. NY DMV to Adhesive subcontractor: You suck! ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dmv-adhesive-subcontractor-you-suck/498960/11 "2009-06-09T18:40:03Z")
They’ll also print you a new one if you bring back the one that fell off.