{"id":245846,"date":"2026-04-12T03:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245846\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:45:10","slug":"expired-registration-texas-drivers-can-renew-at-a-drive-thru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245846\/","title":{"rendered":"Expired registration? Texas drivers can renew at a drive-thru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you fallen prey to the long, slow moving waiting lines and inconvenient weekday operating hours of the tax assessor-collector\u2019s office when that pesky\u00a0vehicle registration<\/a> tag is up for renewal? But there\u2019s a way to dodge that dreaded visit and get that sticker up to date without ever getting out of your car.<\/p>\n

Vehicle inspections<\/a> may be a thing of the past in Texas now, but vehicle registrations still need to be updated every year. Waiting to get it done can cost you big time <\/a>\u2013 tickets, possible towing, court visits and so on \u2013 but a company shifting gears after the death of inspections could save you a lot of time while trying to avoid those burdens.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you go to H-E-B, you can\u2019t be expired. You can be expired with us,\u201d Texas Tag & Title<\/a> owner Charissa Barnes tells MySA, noting customers don\u2019t even need their renewal notice handy. \u201cIf you got to H-E-B, you can\u2019t have a ticket for expired registration. You can have that with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though you\u2019ll still have to go to court to pay any fines for failing to keep up with your registration. Why is Barnes able to do this? She is one of few tax collectors deputized by Bexar County Tax Assessor-Collector Albert Uresti. This means her stations at 10480 Culebra Road (Far West Side) and 2960 Pat Booker Road (Far Northeast Side) can perform the same vehicle registration services as the assessor-collector\u2019s office, along with title transfers and assisting new Texas residents register a vehicle in the state for the first time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sleek and efficient process where drivers circle a small building with a drive-thru window. \u00a0The process only takes five or six minutes, says Barnes. Plus, the tax assessor\u00a0collector’s office shuts down at 4:30 p.m. most days and is only open on weekdays, cutting into people’s workday.\u00a0Texas Tag & Title is open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe actual registration renewal process is very simple. Many people load up their car with their kids, they\u2019re on their phone, they\u2019re watching YouTube, and they\u2019re in line waiting to get their registration renewed,\u201d Barnes said, explaining even a car or two ahead of you at the drive thru is more enjoyable from your car than a courthouse or the assessor-collector\u2019s office with number ticket tags and fluorescent lighting.<\/p>\n

Plus, state-mandated vehicle safety inspections may not be required anymore, but emissions testing<\/a> will be required across Bexar County starting November 1. And Texas Tag & Title offers emissions testing right next door \u2013 a requirement after November if you want to renew your registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you fallen prey to the long, slow moving waiting lines and inconvenient weekday operating hours of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[847,820,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-245846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-mysanews","9":"tag-mysastaff","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","12":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}