Missing Title Replacement Headaches

[Tazbert]

I've got a missing title problem and I'm hoping somebody here has some ideas. Here's the situation:

Vehicle purchased in Colorado & loan originated there
Paid off while registered in North Carolina
Title never received, but lien release received from credit union
Currently registered in Wisconsin

I'm trying to get a replacement title, but am not sure where to request it.
Sent in a Colorado title replacement form, but was told VIN is inactive.
Tried Wisconsin, but they said Colorado is wrong and I should go back to them.
North Carolina DMV won't answer the phone or respond to web requests.

My current strategy is to try submitting a title replacement request to North Carolina, but it has to be notarized, which is a hassle during these Covid times.

Does anybody know of a way to do a search that will at least let me know which state currently holds the title?

Thanks!

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[869 KPH]

carfax? RE a notary, several UPS stores offer the service for like $5.

 

[Gren71]

So I sort of went through a similar process recently with a motorcycle

I bought a motorcycle off a kid had the title transferred from him to me and that I never bothered completing the title transfer at my state DMV. When I went to do it the DMV threw a fit because he wrote his name in the wrong place scratched out and kept going and apparently that’s a huge no-no for the DMV. They wrote in big black letters defaced on my title and probably told me to pound sand and figure it out.

The process I had to go through was to find the date and time for a law-enforcement Vin check through my state DMV, have them do the Vin check and give me a clean Vin inspection form.

Then I had to try and contact the kid I bought it from. He moved away from Philadelphia a long time ago so I had to send a certified letter to the address he had on the title and wait for that letter to get returned to sender without the signature.

Once I had both the letter and the clean vin paperwork I was able to go to the DMV and get a new title issued in my name for the motorcycle.

it was more of a time-consuming problem than a really a pain… Now now that I know the process it’s not that hard.

Hope that helps!

 

[Tazbert]

carfax? RE a notary, several UPS stores offer the service for like $5.

Thanks! I hadn't thought of Carfax. They gave me a NC title number. Guess that's my next step.

 

[eaglerugby04]

I haven't moved as much as you, but title always comes to the state it is registered in, and notification is sent pretty quickly to the DMV. Got both SC and Ohio titles within a few weeks of payoff. The Ohio DMV actually mailed my Ohio title to me in SC even though the lender and the state had the SC address.

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