New Ram California DMV issues

discovery4us wrote:
If the truck does not have all the necessary CA smog factory installed you will need to drive the truck 7,500 miles and wait two years so that it will classified as used.

If the truck does have all the necessary CA smog factory installed you will need a weight cert., an odometer cert., a smog cert., a Application for CA title, the out of state title, a CA DMV employee will need to fill out a vehicle verification, and you will need a boat load of cash to cover sales tax (based off of the dealers bill of sale).

Probable too late but I would make the out of state dealer make CA registration part of the sales agreement.

First thing CA DMV will look for is the factory sticker that states CA legal or 50 state legal.

virtually all vehicles sold in the U.S. today are certified to california emissions standards regardless of which state they are shipped to. Not sure why it would require any additional testing as a new vehicle if it was CA emissions certified.

My 2015 Denali was first shipped to dave smith. It turned out to be the only one in 4 states that had everything I wanted on it. Local dealer beat Dave smith price and got the truck from Dave smith, had it shipped by truck to his dealership, and it then became an oregon vehicle for registration. It was California emissions certified even though it was originally shipped to Idaho which doesn't require CA emissions. BTW oregon and something like 15 other states require CA emissions. I even have all the original paperwork from GM showing it's original order and shipment to dave smith then the paperwork transferring it to the dealership I got it from.

When I was looking for my truck I searched Idaho, WA, CA, OR and MT dealer to see what was available. Every truck that I found was CA emissions certified.