Difficulty selling a vehicle due to regulatory issues related to its origin and smog regulations

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2 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 0 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “Not a big deal I guess, CA can collect taxes now. Seems like a small problem to try to solve. From my perspective, too many influencers parading this around raised some ire. The law could benefit from a "content crime", similar to a "hate crime". If you break the law, for the purpose of creating content, you get fucked in the ass. That would have worked for Whistlin'. "You voilated TN tax law, while being an internet clown". Living in an east coast metro area, owning a 20yo car that doesn't pass smog and needs a lot of work to get there is a thorn in my side. So I've got a car I can't register and slowly fix on weekend. It'd prefer an additional tax on my registration for not passing smog, rather than not be able to register it and the car be rendered illegal.”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “I ran into a fun one when moving out of the country. Chrysler Town and Country I had bought in Washington state, we were flying out from CA. My thought was to unload the vehicle in the last week before flying. Except no one would buy it, not even Carmax or any of the other "cash for cars" places! Turns out, the car was originally manufactured for Canada, and California doesn't recognize the Canadian smog regulations, even if the car was functionally identical down to the catalytic converter. No one would take the damn thing because they couldn't re-title it. I finally found one guy who would who seemed like he was taking a decent sized risk, but since I gave him a good price he decided he'd just give it his best shot. For all I know he may have had to (illegally) drive it to Nevada just to sell it.”

  Hacker News · complaint