Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR)

Contact

Email: BAREditor@dca.ca.gov
Phone: 800-952-5210

Description

The Bureau strives to protect and serve California consumers by ensuring a fair and competitive automotive repair marketplace and administering a model motor vehicle emissions reduction program.

Services

Find a Smog Station

You can search by Station Name, County, City, Postal Zip-Code, or BAR Field Office area. Select the "STAR Certified Stations" box when searching for a STAR certified station.

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Look Up Auto Repair Dealer License

When using this service, To look up a license, please enter either the person, business name, license number, city or county. If you're not sure of a person's name or a business name, partial names can be used to locate licensees. For example, if you think the last name of a person is Smith, enter Smith in the name box and then click on Find. All the Smiths will be displayed. You can also enter other criteria to help narrow down a search for a person or business. For example, if you want all the Smiths in Los Angeles, enter Smith in the Name box and Los Angeles in the City box. Then, click on Find. All the Smiths located in Los Angeles will be displayed. If you know the license number, enter only the numeric portion of the license number and click on Find to display a specific license.

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