[quote=bearishgurl]Peeps, the moral of this story here is that if you receive a “STAR directed” registration in the mail from the DMV, you will likely have over two months before your registration expires. Don’t wait until the last week or two to get a smog check! You need to carefully plan and “prep” your vehicle for its STAR-directed “exam.” :=0
I hope flu has ample time left so he won’t be hit with excessive registration fees.[/quote]
Uh, what makes you assume I waited until the last two weeks?
First, my registration isn’t due until end of March.
Second, as long as you paid your registration, before the due date, you don’t really need to smog it before your registration is due if you don’t plan on driving it. You just get a “registration incomplete” notice, and you don’t get a registration sticker. But once you smog it and pass, you get the registration sticker afterwards, now about a week later.
Technically, you aren’t allowed to park on public streets, but if you leave the car in the driveway, or on a trailer that is registered, it’s not an issue.
So I have about 2 months to commute with it to burn off excess oil if that’s the issue. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll just have to commute to work with one of the other 3 cars that still pass smog (for now).
It was stupid for to go to Miramar. I didn’t think this car would fail, and I didn’t want to take time off to drive to Poway on the weekdays to get it smoged where I normal get it done, and I was down in UTC and thought I’d save some time to just get it done yesterday.
