According to Formanchuk, he went to a police station on October 12, 2007 to register his car.

He said he had registered his car there to take advantage of lower insurance rates.

If, within one year of registering your car as new in your name your car is either:

Lots of things in life are complicated: filling out a tax return, registering your car, getting cable television.

"It took me over an hour to register my new car," said Jorge Ortiz, a computer technician from Brooklyn.

"Every teenager who wants to drive a car has to get a license and register their car," she said.

"It was a nightmare," recalled a man who recently spent a week trying to register his car.

The first issue is registering your car.

Again and again, she tells callers where they can go to take the test for a driver's license or to register their car.

"In those first years I couldn't afford to register my car, so I had it up on blocks," he told me.