Getting a non-CARB diesel registered in NY... - Page 2 - Diesel Forum

nlgrav182 · 11-07-2006, 11:32 PM

Now the idea is snowballing...

I don't know if I'd travel to South Dakota just to establish residency. If it definitely works, then I'd look into it more (and more if there's a closer state with the same policy).

I don't really have any "local" police, which I suppose is lucky. There's a county police force, and then the local precinct, but the car's drivers change regularly and I doubt they take notice of an out-of-state license plate unless they're sitting behind it.

Are you allowed to register a PO Box address with the DMV?

I definitely want to be creative, I just need to know which direction to "drive" my creative spirit. I'm all about minor scams and getting one over on "the man".

Say this little out-of-state thing got caught. Would the vehicle be impounded, or would I have thirty days to sell it and register a compliant vehicle? Plus, I don't want to buy a car and find out that my address scam isn't going to work. That would just be a giant pickle.

I suppose even easier, but more likely to be caught, would be to just not register it. I have the gas version of the Jeep now, so the swap would probably be pretty easy and relatively convincing.

Sometime over the winter I will go to a dealer and talk to them; see if they want to work out all that tricky stuff with the mailbox. I know most car salesmen are incompotent, but they may know a trick or two.

tango_28 · 11-10-2006, 10:20 AM

The car has to have 7500 miles before before registering in in non CARB state. That's loop TDI owners are using to buy diesel cars in non CARB states.

Birken Vogt · 11-10-2006, 02:53 PM

Buy the car, jack up the wheels, start the engine, come back when there are enough miles on it....

Even better you might find some electronics kid who can make some pulse generator to fool the VSS into thinking the car is moving then set it at 100 mph, put it on a battery charger with the key on for 3 days and you are good to go [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Birken

MrPlowJr_EZ_V · 11-11-2006, 02:38 PM

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Buy the car, jack up the wheels, start the engine, come back when there are enough miles on it....

Even better you might find some electronics kid who can make some pulse generator to fool the VSS into thinking the car is moving then set it at 100 mph, put it on a battery charger with the key on for 3 days and you are good to go [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Birken

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This sounds like the quickest/easiest route unfortunatly.

frobozz · 11-11-2006, 03:11 PM

Wouldn't it be better to let someone else put on those miles honestly, "earning" a depreciated price along the way... than to spin them up like that, instantly removing value from the car even though only the odometer has moved that many miles? In other words, buy a used one instead of faking more miles on a new one.

Duncan

michelle · 11-26-2006, 07:42 AM

How stringent are they on the paper tags? I ask since a vehicle I purchased out of state has yet to be registered in-state. Take a weekend trip somewhere outside of the tri-state area where they wont be as likely to be hip to the registration/CARB-non-CARB issues and swing your best deal.

I don't know how long it would take to rack up the 7500 miles, but it is one possibility...

Birken Vogt · 11-26-2006, 08:51 AM

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Wouldn't it be better to let someone else put on those miles honestly, "earning" a depreciated price along the way... than to spin them up like that, instantly removing value from the car even though only the odometer has moved that many miles? In other words, buy a used one instead of faking more miles on a new one.

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Depends on your goal. If he wants a new car then he wants one. Even if the government does not think it is new. He knows it is new. In the grand scheme of things 7500 miles is not that much as far as values go by the time he goes to sell it off. A car is not a long term investment to grow your money.

Birken