Prop 6/Auto Registration Increase (Sacramento: neighborhood, live, club)

[steel7]

Originally Posted by Mr5150

$50 Increase over three years is a tough burden to bear. I would suggest selling the car or moving to Texas.

ALL auto registrations, motorcycles & RVS have increased & will continue annually. Its just crazy to be paying $129.00 for a 35 year old car that is not a collector car. My friend is paying $150.00 for his 1967 camero.

[steel7]

Originally Posted by NORTY FLATZ

My motorcycles are $209/each...


Motorcycles.


MOTORCYCLES!

MOTORCYCLES!

My neighbor just paid a whopping $148.00 for his motorcycle. WTF !!

[steel7]

Originally Posted by sav858

Why would it increase? I got a new car last Oct and it decreased this year.

PROP 6 that passed in 2017. People who voted yes on prop 6 should of voted no. They got played by the state. Bunch of liars.

[BB_210]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

Why do Democrats love taxes so much, mind boggling to me.

Same here. Instead of holding the government accountable, they say throw more (of someone else's) money at it. Caltrans is notorious for inefficiency. The bullet train money drain. Question your government folks, hold them accountable. I know they don't want to bite that feeds them.

[steel7]

Originally Posted by joosoon

How so? There's never been a rolling exemption like that. When Schwarzenegger was governor, I seem to recall him vetoing a bill which would've imposed something along those lines, but it was never a thing prior.


If your car can't pass the actual tailpipe test and/or the CEL is lit, regardless of the low miles, it's not running as well as you think it is.

YES , it was. CA is the only state in the nation where a 35 year old car needs to be smogged. My car actually runs great on the freeway & i get 18 mpg. Its a 307 V-8, 4 barrel.

[steel7]

Originally Posted by HereOnMars

I hear that. Same thing with my vehicle which is only a year newer than yours. But now that the car is over 20 years old, I have to take it to a "special" shop to have it smogged ... as if it's some inferior product that has to be closely monitored. My car runs as good as the day I bought it and better than most junk on the road. Still, the registration continues to go up every year instead of down, like it did in the early days. It's really pathetic.

Your car according to the state is a gross polluter. You must take it to any star station. We have idiots making laws in CA.

[steel7]

The state really wants all carbureted cars off the road. The last car to have a carburetor was an Isuza pickup in 1994.

[V8 Vega]

They're tearing up the concrete on the 210 freeway near me and redoing it. Trouble is there was absolutely nothing wrong with the freeway before. total waste of taxpayer money.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by steel7

YES , it was. CA is the only state in the nation where a 35 year old car needs to be smogged.

When was this? I had a smog license when BAR90 rolled out. The exemption was a hard date at that point (pre-1966), but it wasn't a rolling 30 year one any time after that. I don't remember when they moved it up to 1975 but as I said, at some point in Schwarzenegger's tenure, he vetoed a bill that would've done something like you're talking about. The only reason they moved it up to 1975 was to exempt non-catalytic converter equipped vehicles as most (some light trucks came later) after that had them.


It was actually harder in that interim period to smog those post 1966 vehicles too.


edit: Checking this, actually there was a small window where there was a 30 year cutoff and Schwarzenegger signed ab2683 which moved the hard date up to 1975 as the exemption.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by steel7

CA is the only state in the nation where a 35 year old car needs to be smogged.

Maybe you didn't live in California when we had 3rd stage smog alerts.