{"id":302,"date":"2021-07-18T23:09:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T06:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ranchosmogcenter.com\/?post_type=services&#038;p=302"},"modified":"2023-01-22T23:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T07:23:55","slug":"vin-verification","status":"publish","type":"services","link":"https:\/\/ranchosmogcenter.com\/services\/vin-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin Verification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Talking about Vin inspections in California,&nbsp;Vehicle identification number (VIN) verifications are&nbsp;mandatory&nbsp;for&nbsp;registering&nbsp;few&nbsp;motor vehicles.&nbsp;&nbsp;Transport types like cars, pickup trucks,&nbsp;and motorcycles<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>should&nbsp;have a VIN verified at&nbsp;the&nbsp;VIN verification test center.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unique vehicles must have a VIN verified at an official&nbsp;DMV&nbsp;for California vehicle verification.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The formalities are the following:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Transport&nbsp;your vehicle to a VIN verification test center.&nbsp;Search for a location&nbsp;close to&nbsp;yours.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After&nbsp;verification of your&nbsp;VIN is&nbsp;confirmed,&nbsp;you will receive&nbsp;a verification&nbsp;form&nbsp;that&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;needed&nbsp;to&nbsp;register your vehicle&nbsp;at DMV.&nbsp;&nbsp;However,&nbsp;in case of&nbsp;an imbroglio&nbsp;like&nbsp;your verification form&nbsp;being&nbsp;lost 30&nbsp;days&nbsp;or more&nbsp;after&nbsp;the date of&nbsp;verification,&nbsp;you&nbsp;should again&nbsp;get&nbsp;your VIN&nbsp;verified&nbsp;pay the&nbsp;VIN&nbsp;fee. You&nbsp;can&nbsp;avail&nbsp;of&nbsp;a&nbsp;copy&nbsp;of the&nbsp;form at the&nbsp;station that&nbsp;verified the VIN.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>You may go to any&nbsp;DMV office&nbsp;for&nbsp;registering&nbsp;your vehicle with your verification form.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If&nbsp;you&nbsp;cannot verify your&nbsp;VIN at the station, you will receive a document that&nbsp;should&nbsp;be brought to a DMV&nbsp;California verification of&nbsp;the&nbsp;vehicle.&nbsp; Please&nbsp;head towards&nbsp;a DMV Inspection Lane (check out the&nbsp;locations and hours) with your vehicle and the document to&nbsp;avail of&nbsp;a VIN verification.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What to&nbsp;Carry?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vehicle you wish&nbsp;to register.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How Much Will It&nbsp;Cost?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VIN verifications&nbsp;conducted by the DMV or CHP are&nbsp;absolutely&nbsp;free&nbsp;of cost.&nbsp;However, private VIN verifiers will charge you a fee for the inspection.&nbsp;Additionally, they will&nbsp;impose&nbsp;a fee&nbsp;on you&nbsp;for traveling. This fee will&nbsp;differ&nbsp;depending on the distance, time, location, or personal&nbsp;choices of the individual company that you&nbsp;get in touch with.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are the differences between the DMV, CHP,&nbsp;or private VIN verifiers?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2&nbsp;major&nbsp;differences&nbsp;between the DMV\/CHP, AAA,&nbsp;and private VIN verifies is&nbsp;2C, cost,&nbsp;and convenience:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>CHP does&nbsp;not&nbsp;charge for&nbsp;its&nbsp;services.&nbsp;But&nbsp;you will&nbsp;have&nbsp;to&nbsp;fix&nbsp;an appointment to be seen.&nbsp;Apart from that, they will not&nbsp;conduct&nbsp;a VIN verification on just any vehicle or trailer.&nbsp;For being&nbsp;seen by the CHP you&nbsp;should&nbsp;have a referral&nbsp;before you fix&nbsp;an appointment.&nbsp;Moreover, they do not travel unless it is a special&nbsp;situation,&nbsp;like&nbsp;a&nbsp;huge commercial unit, or where there are&nbsp;several&nbsp;units at&nbsp;a single&nbsp;location. They are&nbsp;ideally the ones that&nbsp;perform&nbsp;the more complicated situations&nbsp;as&nbsp;they are&nbsp;proficiently&nbsp;trained.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DMV does&nbsp;not&nbsp;charge any&nbsp;fee for&nbsp;its&nbsp;service. But&nbsp;they do&nbsp;not&nbsp;travel. They can&nbsp;conduct&nbsp;a VIN verification on&nbsp;salvage or junked vehicles.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AAA&nbsp;imposes a membership fee, so for you to be seen by them, you&nbsp;should&nbsp;be a member.&nbsp;Moreover, they&nbsp;keep themselves&nbsp;away from complicated ones,&nbsp;like&nbsp;older cars, or cars with no records, or anything that has to do with dealerships. They cannot&nbsp;conduct&nbsp;VIN verification on&nbsp;salvage or junked vehicles.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Private VIN verifiers&nbsp;may&nbsp;demand&nbsp;a fee for their service.&nbsp;However,&nbsp;out of all of the options, they are the&nbsp;easiest and fast. They cannot&nbsp;conduct&nbsp;verifications on&nbsp;salvage or junked vehicles.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":428,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vin Verification - Rancho Smog Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vehicle identification number (VIN) verifications are a must to register certain motor vehicles like cars, pickup trucks, and motorcycles from a VIN verification test center.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ranchosmogcenter.com\/services\/vin-verification\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vin Verification - Rancho Smog Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vehicle identification number (VIN) verifications are a must to register certain motor vehicles like cars, pickup trucks, and motorcycles from a VIN verification test center.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ranchosmogcenter.com\/services\/vin-verification\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rancho Smog Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-23T07:23:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ranchosmogcenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img770x437-min.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"770\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"437\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ranchosmogcenter.com\/services\/vin-verification\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ranchosmogcenter.com\/services\/vin-verification\/\",\"name\":\"Vin Verification - 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