buying out of ca

[DRead]

I just want to get this straight. Can you buy a truck out of ca if in a border state and a ca emisions sticker? Is there anybody sucsessful at registering a new truck from washington. I called Butch at dishman and his prices are really good. He assures me he can get me a truck with ca border states and ca emisions on it . Has anybody done this same thing ?

 

[radcam]

If it has CA emissons sticker shouldn't be a problem regtistering it in CA.

 

[sarj]

I ordered mine out of AZ and it got ordered with the CA emmisions package. To register it, and when you accept the truck you specify it is for CA w/ the dealer and have him acknowledge that, so he accepts responsibility, and have him point out the emmissions sticker on the valve cover. It will have a line on it specifying CA legal. The DMV WILL inspect, and look for that. I also noticed a special line on the cert of origin that also said CA legal.



To order it, it used to have to be a border state, and it still may, but if you are picking a truck out of stock, some dealers are getting fleet orders that are CA legal... but you HAVE to have that sticker on the valve cover, or you go to jail and don't pass GO when you try to register it.



There was a thread about this about 6 months ago that included a jpeg attatchment that had a picture of the valve cover sticker on it. The thread was comprehensive on the topic. It involved a truck purchase out of Vegas that wasn't legal, and the guy was hosed. Any questions, holler.



sarj