california emissions
Recently purchased a 1995 Newmar Class a 40' mh , will it be legal in california? wanting to pass thru to oregon and scared of this state anyone have any issues , i work in transportation and they giv...
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Made one more trip yesterday with the motor home armed with the emissions certificate from Cummins and the location of the emission tag on the engine. DMV agent once again inspected the motor home, only this time I insisted that she lay down on the floor and inspect the tag on the engine.
With flashlight in hand, I pointed out to her that the tag included "EPA CARB" and would you believe she did not know what CARB meant. For those of you that are not Californian, CARB stands for California Air Resource Board who is the organization in California who determines and enforces all smog/emission rules/regs for California. She had to go back inside the office and ask her supervisor...
Anyway, she filled out the inspection form and I made sure she checked off the correct boxes that indicated we were California compliant, and gave her the address and phone number of the DMV agent in Sacramento that we have been talking to.
On that note, we purchased this motor home in August and the dealer sent all necessary paper work to Sacramento. We have made numerous trips to the local DMV and even to the much larger DMV located in Bakersfield. In addition, we have been in contact with the head DMV office in Sacramento at least five or six times. The last two times have been to the same agent. To date, she has informed us that they (Sacramento) does not have the paperwork sent in by the dealer. The dealer, of course, insists that they sent everything back in August including the info that we paid the California sales tax ($1860) during the purchase. DMV, by the way, has acknowledged that this sales tax has been paid so they actually have received the paper work from the dealer. During our first trip to the local DMV back in October, we also paid the sales tax again (another $1860) due to the fact that on the purchase papers, the sales tax was listed as "Title Fee" and we were unaware that that fee was indeed for California sales tax. Sacramento DMV assures us that the second payment will be returned....been three months and still no $1860 refund.
So, that's my up to date story. Will I ever get this MH registered and also receive my $1860 bucks back? Who knows.
Ron
With flashlight in hand, I pointed out to her that the tag included "EPA CARB" and would you believe she did not know what CARB meant. For those of you that are not Californian, CARB stands for California Air Resource Board who is the organization in California who determines and enforces all smog/emission rules/regs for California. She had to go back inside the office and ask her supervisor...
Anyway, she filled out the inspection form and I made sure she checked off the correct boxes that indicated we were California compliant, and gave her the address and phone number of the DMV agent in Sacramento that we have been talking to.
On that note, we purchased this motor home in August and the dealer sent all necessary paper work to Sacramento. We have made numerous trips to the local DMV and even to the much larger DMV located in Bakersfield. In addition, we have been in contact with the head DMV office in Sacramento at least five or six times. The last two times have been to the same agent. To date, she has informed us that they (Sacramento) does not have the paperwork sent in by the dealer. The dealer, of course, insists that they sent everything back in August including the info that we paid the California sales tax ($1860) during the purchase. DMV, by the way, has acknowledged that this sales tax has been paid so they actually have received the paper work from the dealer. During our first trip to the local DMV back in October, we also paid the sales tax again (another $1860) due to the fact that on the purchase papers, the sales tax was listed as "Title Fee" and we were unaware that that fee was indeed for California sales tax. Sacramento DMV assures us that the second payment will be returned....been three months and still no $1860 refund.
So, that's my up to date story. Will I ever get this MH registered and also receive my $1860 bucks back? Who knows.
Ron
