<p>Title says it all.</p>
<p>Son has car in school which is located in a different state in which we live. What happens when he needs the car to be inspected??</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Ask your local DMV for a waiver, many will let you sign a form to say the car is temporarily out of state.</p>
<p>We had the same issue with son’s car. We were able to register it online, but he did not drive it home for breaks for 2 years so it wasn’t inspected. This was not a problem where he attended school as cars are not inspected yearly. Needless to say when he drove it home after graduation, we had him drive it right to garage for inspection under the cover of darkness!</p>
<p>We’ve had this happen a couple of times. In fact we have an expired inspection sitting 800 miles away right now. I called our state DMV and requested an extension form due to car being out of state. It was 6 months before our son drove the car home and at that time he took the extension form to the inspection station.</p>
<p>Our state has some exemption form we had to pick up from the Clean Air Force (or something like that), had to have the car looked at/serviced inthe state it was located within 30 days of the renewal, had to have a copy of teheservice record frotm eh car shop faxed, and took it, with the form from the Clean Air force, to the DMV to renew teh tag. Did this for 3 summers. Worked fine. Oh- by the third year I brought lunch to the lady at the Clean air force!</p>
<p>If the car will be primarily used in the other state, why not re-register it in that state? Many states require such re-registration anyway.</p>
<p>Registering in the college state wouldn’t have worked for us.
Our son’s car is insured under our family policy and the insurance company requires that all cars on the policy are insured within our home state.</p>
<p>Don’t know if that’s a universal thing or not.</p>
<p>Go the web site of your DOT or DMV. We found the policy there that gives 30 days once it is back in the state. but have some evidence of it being away at school. DD kept her campus parking registration with her when she drove the car home.</p>
<p>Our insu didnt care where the car was registered, but because it spent more than 6 mos in the other state, we had to insure it in that State, not ours, and lost the family discount :(</p>
<p>I had to take the title, DEQ (emissions) inspection and a VIN inspection form to our local DMV in order to register it here, while the car was in son’s college state. That car imploded, and now I get to do it all again with the second beater…</p>