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Originally Posted by Geary
I was recently told that California now requires a recent smog (90 days) before you're even allowed to register your car in another state. Unbelievable.
At least the testing isn't as stringent in Truckee as it was in Auburn. After 10 years of no problems, my old smog guy wouldn't even test me (a couple years back). He tried to force me to visit a BAR station for my smog, where BAR would have forced me to retrofit a stock SVX exhaust system on my SVX Syncro Vanagon. Apparently, BAR now presents further hurdles in order to retain your BAR sticker.
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That's ridiculous. It's not up to CA, it's up to the other state where you want to register. When I moved they never even asked (or cared) if my Benz was registered elsewhere. It was simply done as a new registration in the new state. Went home, yanked the CA plates off and put the new ones on. Done. CA didn't get a say whatsoever in it. I just didn't bother renewing the CA registration when it came due (I suppose I could have - no rule against paying two states for the same car I suppose, but why would you?) I'm sure in the CA DMV database it says I owe them a ton of money if I ever go to re-register in CA but I have no intention of ever doing that so I don't care. It's registered legally in another state and I think even if I drove it into CA it wouldn't matter one iota.