Mengering
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We bought a new inflatable dinghy in December of 2022 after putting a massive gash in our old dinghy. We filled in the CA DMV registration and submitted that, we see our payment was accepted on January 3 2023. We received mail back from the CA DMV just recently rejecting our registration because "CA EMISSIONS CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED". That is all it says. We've called CA DMV multiple times and we finally found that they have no idea what that means, and they referred us to the California Air Resources Board.
Although the inflatable dinghy is new, we simply took the 2109 20HP mercury outboard off the old inflatable dinghy and put it on the new one. This motor has the three stars ultra low emissions sticker on it. We did not have to do any emissions certification on the old one and we have no idea how to get the certification so that we can pass it on to CA DMV and successfully register our new dinghy.
I gather this may be a new rule in CA that requires emissions certification/testing on all motors (inboard, outboard) that are less than 500 HP so I expect a lot of people are experiencing our pain. But so far we have had no luck figuring out how to get this emissions certification. Has anyone else successfully navigated this new rule in CA?
Thanks
Glenn
Although the inflatable dinghy is new, we simply took the 2109 20HP mercury outboard off the old inflatable dinghy and put it on the new one. This motor has the three stars ultra low emissions sticker on it. We did not have to do any emissions certification on the old one and we have no idea how to get the certification so that we can pass it on to CA DMV and successfully register our new dinghy.
I gather this may be a new rule in CA that requires emissions certification/testing on all motors (inboard, outboard) that are less than 500 HP so I expect a lot of people are experiencing our pain. But so far we have had no luck figuring out how to get this emissions certification. Has anyone else successfully navigated this new rule in CA?
Thanks
Glenn