HOV stickers

I mailed in my HOV application on the same day I picked up my car. The dealer had provided me with the VIN so I prefilled out the application and in the spot that asks for the license#, I wrote "New Vehicle". My stickers arrived ~6-8 weeks later. My plates arrived around the same time, within about week of my stickers. In case you didn't see the recent update/good news, the hybrid HOV lane use has been extended to the year 2011 and they're issuing 10K more stickers.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(super80 @ Sep 29 2006, 02:17 PM) [snapback]325754[/snapback]</div>

You really need not have started a whole new thread on this subject, asking PriusChat members to start all over again. There are several other threads with lots of information about the California Clean Air Stickers (aka HOV stickers).

http://priuschat.com/latest-of-HOV-sticker...ued-t11396.html

http://priuschat.com/index.php?showtopic=22868&hl=HOV

http://priuschat.com/index.php?showtopic=22932&hl=HOV

http://priuschat.com/Hybrid-HOV-extension-...esk-t24162.html

http://priuschat.com/California-Gov-passes...ill-t24997.html

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(highroute @ Sep 29 2006, 06:25 PM) [snapback]325813[/snapback]</div>

I think I know the answer to a really dumb question but here goes.. If you don't need a tag number what would stop me from requesting the stickers when I live in another state. I would certainly consider this if it was legal since I might be moving to Calif before 2011.. I am sure there is something to stop this but just wondering

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ghostrider @ Sep 29 2006, 06:38 PM) [snapback]325866[/snapback]</div>

The short answer to your question is that, in recent months anyway, California DMV has refused to fill requests for the Clean Air Vehicle stickers if the license plate number was not on the application. That happened to me, in March 2006, for example. The car clearly must be registered in California or the DMV will not supply the stickers. But one need not be in possession of the plate in order to know the plate number and to write it on the application.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rancid13 @ Sep 29 2006, 02:36 PM) [snapback]325770[/snapback]</div>

That seems to have worked in February 2006, but by March the DMV had stopped approving such applications. There are dozens of posts on this Web site attesting to that.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ghostrider @ Sep 29 2006, 06:38 PM) [snapback]325866[/snapback]</div>

The DMV checks that the VIN on the application is for a car which is registered in CA before the application is approved and the stickers are issued. The applications which have been rejected were mostly those which were received before the selling dealer filed the car registration application with the DMV.

(In California new car dealers process the paperwork for registering cars that they sell)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IsrAmeriPrius @ Sep 29 2006, 08:07 PM) [snapback]325895[/snapback]</div>

You also need a Fast Track transponder that is registered with/to the car.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(forman @ Sep 29 2006, 11:01 PM) [snapback]325940[/snapback]</div>

Only if your car is registered in the San Francisco Bay area. There is no such requirement for cars located in the rest of the state.