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Originally Posted by jflogerzi
So your saying regardless of it's used or not our cars have 8 years to be smog free?
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That is mostly correct.
I do NOT live in a smog exempt area of California (Santa Rosa), and I have owned and registered my CPO 2013 BRZ since December of 2015, and I have NEVER had to smog my car in the 4+ years of ownership, so unless the DMV messed up, I am fairly certain that it is 8 years regardless.
With that said, I am 99.999% certain that a change in ownership requires a smog certificate. As such is the case, if a car was purchased then sold/traded-in after only say 1500 miles, the seller (private party or dealership) would be responsible for smogging the vehicle and providing that to the new owner within 30 days of the sale. The exception to the smog rule for a change in ownership is a transfer/sale of title/ownership to a family member.