Hello, I would be very appreciative for any advice you might have on the following, as repeated conversations with the California DMV, SoCal AAA, and California- and Maryland-based Honda dealerships have yielded conflicting advice. Here goes.
My parents live in Maryland and own a 2014 Honda Odyssey EX-L that's been driven 16k miles. They would now like to transfer this van to our family in California. We would like to accept the van, but before paying to ship it into LA County from the East Coast want to ensure that we will be able to register it in California. After speaking twice with California DMV officials in Sacramento, as well as local AAA representatives and Honda dealers, we think this should be doable - both because it is a late-model Honda with reasonable mileage, and because it is no longer 'new' (under 7.5k miles) and it is a family transfer. The only negative feedback has been from the Maryland dealership that originally sold my parents the car; they suggest that it is a 49-state model, and that it might be prohibitively expensive to adapt it for California usage.
Any thoughts and advice would be much appreciated.
