Lost sticker, plate or card? Replaced today.
Stolen off the plate, never arrived in the mail, or somewhere in a drawer you'll never find. We reissue registration stickers, plates and registration cards the same day.
Come in, walk out with it.
Tell us what's missing
Sticker, plate, registration card, or all three. Bring your ID and the plate number.
We reissue it
Processed here at the counter. There's a DMV fee for the replacement, which we'll tell you up front.
Back on your car
Put the new sticker on and you're legal again.
What to bring.
Replacements are one of the quickest things we do. If your sticker was stolen, mention it, as that changes the form.
If the plates themselves were stolen, file a police report first and bring the report number with you.
- Your photo ID
- The licence plate number
- Your registration card if you still have it
- Payment for the replacement fee
Questions we get every day.
Someone peeled my sticker off the plate.
My registration never came in the mail.
Both plates were stolen.
Can I get a replacement if my registration is expired?
Stolen stickers are a San Diego problem
Sticker theft leaves you driving on a plate that looks expired even though your registration is current. We reissue at the counter, usually in a few minutes.
Bring photo ID and the plate number. Say it was stolen rather than lost, because that changes the form. For Replacement License Plates, file a police report first and bring the report number: new plates come with a new number and the record has to be updated to match.
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If your registration is close to expiring anyway, renewing and taking the current sticker is often cheaper than paying for a replacement now and renewing weeks later. Bring the plate number and we will work out which way round costs you less.
A duplicate registration card is the simplest of the three, and people need one more often than you would think. It is almost always an old address sitting on the DMV record, so we will offer to correct that while you are here rather than watch the same thing happen next year.
If the sticker was stolen, it is worth adding a set of sticker guards afterwards. Thieves take them because they peel in seconds and go unnoticed for weeks, and a second theft usually follows the first.
Come in and we'll sort it today.
Replacements are usually the fastest visit anyone makes here.