Nothing says, pull me over, more than a little red tilted square with a white number 8, stuck to the back of your window...better drive 55 Chet...
glad to hear, your free n clear..

 

Just recently I thought that they did not send me my new tags. Went to the DMV told the gal I never received my tags and she cut me a new registration/tags on the spot. Couple days later I found the original tags & registration in a pile of junk mail.

 

I just received the following email from the CARB:

Public Hearing to Consider Proposed Revisions to On-Board Diagnostic System Requirements, Including the Introduction of Real Emissions Assessment Logging (REAL), for Heavy-Duty Engines, Passenger Cars, Light-Duty Trucks, and Medium-Duty Vehicles and Engines:

CARB staff is proposing amendments to the heavy-duty on-board diagnostic (HD OBD) regulation (title 13, California Code of Regulations (CCR), section 1971.1), the HD OBD enforcement regulation (title 13, CCR section 1971.5), and to the OBD II regulation (title 13, CCR section 1968.2). Since the regulations were last amended in 2012, CARB staff had discovered issues where many OBD systems have not been operating as they should be in-use, including monitors that do not run frequently in-use and emission-related faults that are not detected by monitors. Additionally, manufacturers have indicated concerns with specific requirements, including high workload burdens related to testing of in-use engines. Further, considering the increasingly stringent emission standards being adopted by the state and federal governments, CARB staff has identified a need to characterize emissions from in-use engines and vehicles to better inform CARB’s inventory, regulatory, certification, and enforcement programs. Thus, as part of the Real Emissions Assessment Logging (REAL) effort, CARB staff is proposing new data, specifically those related to oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, to be tracked and reported by engines/vehicles to help track real world emissions performance of heavy- and medium-duty engines. Additionally, CARB staff is proposing amendments to strengthen monitoring requirements, address manufacturers’ implementation concerns, and clarify and improve the regulations where needed.

 

In the days of old, my dad always went to DMV, paid registration, and was handed his sticker. I always sent it in the mail. Now, you can pay and get sticker at AAA. I just do it online, and print the receipt. Never had to wait more than a week for sticker in the mail.

Smog has been and will continue to be a mystery. None of us seem to ever know why we pass or fail. I think it's a scam. One tech will point out everything that's illegal, while other techs shrug their shoulders and pass you. Sure, it's obvious when you have a check engine light. But what else is going on you don't, your car runs fine, and they still fail you?

 

Are these proposals for new vehicles or are trying to implement new standards to older vehicles retroactively like they have done on heavier trucks?

 

That would require every vehicle to be online. How will they do that with the current computer at DMV always crashing?

 

That's what I tried to do. He said it was set to go in the mail and he couldn't get into the system to change that.

 

I had sent my fee's in when I got them but didn't get it smogged right away. That mitt be why this happen. It sucks.

 

Yup, exactly correct.

That's just one reason I like doing my DMV stuff at my local AAA office. I can start the process by paying for my reg one day at the AAA office, then get a smog a few weeks later and head back to the AAA office with the paperwork and finish the process and get my sticker on the spot.

Stewart

 

I have had AAA for 15 years and the only thing I've ever used them for is vehicle registration and to fill my map pockets with every map I can fit when I'm there.

Worth the price for just those things IMO.

 

Yes I need to change. Left them 45 years ago when they raised my rates in stead of lowering them when I was 25. My son messed up with them. He paid his motor home fee's and sales tax. bought from private owner, forgot to go back two years later, had a bunch of extra fee's to pay because he never went back. He said he always pays his tags when they come and didn't think about it. He has a 5er and a motor home so he didn't use the motor home much. Something like $2500.oo worth he said. He had to smog it, and did, but did go back.

 

What's a "map pocket"? Is that an app?
I have AAA+ for the towing. Pretty much 90% of the places I go to are within 100 miles of home or some friend's house so when the CPS goes out on the highway and I drop the 10mm wrench through the drain grate I'm home free...

 

My wife used it as a trash can until I started filling the passenger's door with maps too.

 

Having a DMV office within my AAA office is priceless. They cannot process all DMV transactions there, but for the ones they can do, they have saved me many, many hours of waiting at the DMV over the few years it's been available.

Stewart

 

My local DMV is getting crowded. There were at least five people there the last time I went in! LOL