Vehicle registration renewal in California?

California Vehicle Registration Calculator/Graph/Equation?

• I recently found out that my truck was $500 to register in California for a year. It is not a new truck, it is a 2006 used truck. How does California calculate how much a vehicle is going to cost to register for a year? Id like to put it to use the next time I purchase a vehicle instead of getting the kick in the .......teeth.

• Answer:

  CA DMV has a link ==> http://dmv.ca.gov/FeeCalculatorWeb/index.jsp If I were you, try running the numbers thru it on your truck, and see if it comes out to the result they socked you for... Truck commercial plates have always been expensive, probably more so now after they had the rate hike about 2 years ago. As a consolation, in Virginia, they charge you property tax annually on your vehicles, so maybe it's good you're not in Virginia, it still hurts, though...