New Jersey Cobra Nightmare!!!

[JPit]

Bill, you are correct If John had simply gone to the DMV with his 2005 PA registration they would have given him a 2005 NJ registration no questions asked. The problem is when he goes to get the car's emmissions tested. Not only will his car have to comply with 2005 emmission standards all 2005 vehicles have an onboard computer that the state or local inspection site uses. There are still garages that do the tailpipe sniffer test but they cannot just choose which car they use the sniffer test or the onboard computer test. To use the sniffer test on a 2005 car you must have a special registration to do so.

Bill I understand you have done this many time either way, but how long has it been? Maybe you have a special relationship with your NJ DMV that most people don't have. I am speaking from very recent experience. I took your specific advice about a year ago and for me it was the wrong solution.


I only want to make sure no one makes the same mistakes as I did. I am one of the few people to recenty go through the revamped NJ registratin policy for specialty vehicles.