Trying to register a snowmobile without registration or bill of sale in illinois - Snowmobile Forum: Your #1 Snowmobile Forum

HrdHededJagFan · 10-23-2009, 11:51 AM

ITS NOT STOLEN!! lol.. i bought it fair and square from a kid who lived on alot of land and never registered it.. i was stupid and too excited to just get it and leave that i never got a bill of sale.. the registration numbers are rubbed off but the engine and tunnel serial numbers are there.. and i dont know what to do.. any help would be cool

you think if i just filled out the registration form the best i could and explain that i never got a bill of sale that they would be cool with it as long as it wasnt reported stolen??

**RJ Gleason** · 10-23-2009, 11:58 AM

And take a rubbing of the vin along so that they can verify it too.

HrdHededJagFan · 10-23-2009, 12:00 PM

i put alot of money into this sled before i even realize this was going to be a problem.. im really hoping this works.. if not ill just use the 120 day permit when you fill it out and hope it works if i ever get stoped

HrdHededJagFan · 10-23-2009, 12:02 PM

o wait vin number??? its an 81 arctic cat jag.. does it have a vin?? it has a serial number etched into the tunnel and a number etched into the engine.. just give them both of those??

**RJ Gleason** · 10-23-2009, 12:02 PM

Of course, you could just call them up and ask what you will need.

**kccats** · 10-23-2009, 12:56 PM

Do the rubbing of the tunnel! Then get a form from the DNR! Then have the prev owner fill out the bottom (purcased from)!

HrdHededJagFan · 10-23-2009, 03:12 PM

i have no way of getting ahold of the previous owner.. if i didn then this would be no problem as in illinois only a bill of sale is necessary.. but i dont have this.. ill take a rubbing of the tunnel and engine and send in the registration and hope to god its not stolen..

clodev · 10-23-2009, 04:34 PM

I had the same thing from mine kinda. Bill of sale on the purchase but 2 previouse owners did not register. Filled out a statement claiming it was clean to the best of my knowledge and got my plates 1980 panther. That was in MI

TCOLLINS · 10-23-2009, 04:50 PM

I had same problem. I got a sled for free from someone who got it from someone who inherited it. No bill of sale, no registration card. It took me months of phone calls but eventually I got a registration card. Don't fill out reg. form and mail in it will not work. Try calling DNR first. With vin # they can look up who previously registered it. Good Luck!

YamahaSS440 · 10-23-2009, 06:18 PM

In wisconsin, you can just register your sled online. what i found easy about it was if u put the correct serial number off the tunnel into the online registration site, it pulled up the previous owner and gets you the registration from the mail. I dont know if you can do this in illinois, but i didnt even need anything from the previous owner to register it.

HrdHededJagFan · 10-26-2009, 11:09 AM

wow.. that was the easiest thing i could have done.. i put my primary use as out of state.. said i lived in illinois... paid my money.. easy as pie.. got a temp. registration card but they have already given me my new registration number.. THANKS YamahaSS440!!!

**kccats** · 10-26-2009, 02:02 PM

So You registered it in Wi! Cool!

YamahaSS440 · 10-26-2009, 04:00 PM

Your welcome

**kccats** · 10-26-2009, 05:44 PM

So post the Phone number? And what all you need!

HrdHededJagFan · 11-03-2009, 09:43 AM

just got my new registration stickers and card... didnt need a previous owner, all they needed was my birth date and social security number, serial number off of my tunnel, and where i use it the most.. got my stickers about 4 days after i did it online as opposed to 4 weeks in illinois.. MY STATE SUCKS!!!

sledhead16 · 11-03-2009, 01:37 PM

Yet another reason to love Wisconsin!
I got my sled for free, and being that I didn't need a bill of sale, I didn't have a problem. I still had the guy who gave it to me write a short note explaining, but they didn't give me any problems.

xcelr800 · 11-03-2009, 04:08 PM

IL sucks i have been waiting since July for my registration With numerous callls to DNR and here i am still waiting . They only have 3 people working in there office so the lady there said...

TCOLLINS · 11-03-2009, 10:31 PM

Been there it's a brutal wait.

**kccats** · 11-04-2009, 09:30 AM

So what is the #? How much did it cost?

TCOLLINS · 11-04-2009, 06:12 PM

Illinois dept nat resourses for phone number. sticker for #. $18.00