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>Consider two examples:
(a) you rent a vehicle,

(b) you drive or choose to house a friends' vehicle.

in both cases, the vehicle would already be registered in the state (by the rental company or by the friend).

it is not clear to me why you think the vehicles would need to be re-registered.

I haven't spent much time personally in Cali, but the places I have had to rent a car from I've never had a rental car plated in the same state I'm driving/renting it from

the rental car is obviously already going to be legal in the state (if not cali plated, then registration is probably via fleet registration or international registration plan (IRP), etc).

under no circumstance are you (the customer) going to be required to (or even able to) register the car you are renting.

i would not take car registration advice from a person asking about registering someone else's car at the dmv.

it is not me who thinks the vehicles need to be re-registered, but those who are making the argument that you need to register a vehicle you dont own simply because you drove it in a state or garaged it there.

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