Mugged by California DMV?
Pardon me if I'm covering plowed ground here, but I couldn't find any threads on this topic... My annual registration renewal is to be $880! I've owned a couple of gas rigs in the past, the last wa...
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mabynack wrote:msmith1199 wrote:mabynack wrote:
I was stationed in California about 25 years ago and they charged me about $800 a year for registration on my F-250 as a non-resident. That's almost 10 times what it costs me in Florida.
Stationed in California? As in the Military? If so you could have keep the registration of your home state.
We bought it in California, so it had to be registered there the first year - at least that's the way I remember it. We transferred the registration to Florida as soon as we were eligible.
I thought that if you were military you could buy a vehicle in California and register it in your home state, but I'm not sure. What you should have done is take a trip back to Florida and bought the truck there and then just drove it back to California.
