Part of $110.00 extra fees RV's (motorhomes) are charged every year is for the disposal of holding tank (sewage) waste, and RV weight fees, both that don't apply to a Westfalia. Find another agency and state the vehicle you registering is a Volkswagen Vanagon.I have never had a problem at my local agency.Robert1982 Westfalia

 
      From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
 To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
 Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 1:08 PM
 Subject: titling and registering camper in Washington
   
I have run into something unexpected in moving my camper to Washington.  The clerk at the registration office asked me if my camper is a motor home.  I said "No," because it is not.  She agreed, saying that her computer registration program identified it, by its vin, as a passenger car.  But another lady, at a different booth, spoke up, saying that it is a motor home. The two disagreed, so they called someone else, saying that they can always rely on him for correct information. He said it was a passenger car.

OK, everything was cool.  But the other woman intervened again, asking me if the van had a bed.  It does.  She then asked if it had a sewage holding tank.  It does not.  She asked then if it has cooking facilities or a refrigerator.  It has both.  She declared it to be a motor home.  The first woman was non-plussed.  I told her that I would title and license the vehicle "later," and she said she thought that was a good idea, and that she would check further for me, and let me know what she found out.

It seems to me that if the registration program recognizes it as a passenger vehicle, and the departmental expert, consulted because he is the expert, agrees, then the second woman is just butting in, but what do I know.

So, fellow VW Campmobile owning Washingtonians, how are yor camper's titled and registered, as passenger vehicles or motor homes?

Thanks,David McNeely