[quote=bearishgurl]flu, I know LOTS of people who have applied for and qualified for assistance in the last few years to get older vehicles smogged. The assistance is good to use at any CA Test and Repair stations.
It’s totally worth it to do this application. If you have to register your vehicle non-op while you wait for approval, then so be it. Don’t pay a penny until its fixed.
However, I AM pissed at Arnold for raising the “baseline” DMV registration fee from $39 to $64 to (now) $87.
This is highway robbery for an annual registration sticker for a 20+ year-old vehicle.[/quote]
first of all, I wouldn’t qualify for the financial hardship assistance. second, when one sells the car in CA, the burden of getting it smoged and passed is usually for the seller.
The seller didn’t want to deal with getting it smogged since the car wasn’t used often, so they offered me a very low selling price..I agreed on condition that it passed smog…Didn’t think it would fail. But it did…
It really wouldn’t matter if I was going to use the car for “track purposes only” because in that case I could keep the car as non-operating and not need to register it…BUT, then I wouldn’t be able to park the car in public roads…which sucks…So……too much hassle… So i ended up offering the person XXXX minus $400 for the cat… (my personal labor is cheap at $0…)…Person said they would get back to me on monday…
At any case, it’s not really my issue. The person that ends up suffering is this person who needs to sell the car and is cash-strapped. The person doesn’t want to keep the car, but wants to sell it because they say they need the money and/or doesn’t want the extra expense…But since it failed smog, they aren’t going to be able to sell it to normal buyers without getting it fixed first..And no way a normal buyer, upon seeing it has emissions issues, is gonna want to deal with it unless cat is replaced correctly. Person is screwed…
