So i was on the DMV website today, trying to find info about registering my car. When i ran accross this http://www.smogcheck.ca.gov/ft...p.pdf showing certain counties in CA that dont require a smog check every 2 years.

So i started thinking what if i just register my car to a PO box in one of those counties? I'm looking at the back of my title & it has an area for address & an area for mailing address (it says PO boxes are allowed also).

So could i just put the PO box address in the "address" section & then put my home address in the mailing address section? Would this work in qualifying my cars to not have to be smoged every 2 years. Or would they go off my mailing address i put down. Because if i put the PO box as my mailing address too, i really dont want to drive about 3 hours to the nearest "non-smog" county to pick up my registration when it comes.

Has anyone done this, does it work?

If it works it would be worth it to me because i have 2 civics, my SI requires about a full days work to pass smog & then a full days work to return it back to its better state, plus the price i pay to have it re-dyno tuned afterwards. & now i have an eg that i plan on swapping the motor & really dont want to deal with the whole BAR thing.

-thanks

 

you probably would be better off asking this in GDD.....it doesnt really have anything to do with all motor.....

not that i know for sure, but this seems like too obvious an idea to work....

 

Well almost. you have to have residence in that city. not just a P.O.Box. Do you have a cousin that lives there. Realize that this address needs to be on the reg.

Enhanced = dyno smog or AWD/traction control= two speed idle
Basic = two speed idle
And last is just for change of ownership or first time register

I wish it was that easy.

 

out of curiosity, do you have to have smog checks if you register your car as an antique???? Notthat myhonda is an antique now, but one day.... i think 25 years it has to be ...

 

The 25yr exemption is no more. Now it is 1975 and older are exempt. So if it is a 1976 it has to be smogged.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by thesmogman &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Well almost. you have to have residence in that city. not just a P.O.Box. Do you have a cousin that lives there. Realize that this address needs to be on the reg.

Enhanced = dyno smog or AWD/traction control= two speed idle
Basic = two speed idle
And last is just for change of ownership or first time register

I wish it was that easy.</TD></TR></TABLE>
unfortunatly no, i dont have anyone at all that i can think of who lives on the outskirts of say san bernardino or riverside county.

i figured my idea was too good to be true. oh well.