[upstatedoc]

well, our acura mdx was totaled in may of last year. my wife turned the plates to dmv and in august we started receiving parking tickets in the mail from the totaled vehicle which must have been fixed and was driving around nyc without plates. i guess they got our address from the vin number because there were no plates on the vehicle. my wife submitted document after document to show that we were not the owners and we finally (last week) got a letter from nyc dept of finance that they were in error and we did not owe them anything. it took a year.