Carries the odometer disclosure and the transfer when the certificate of title itself cannot - a title with no odometer line, a reassignment where the title has run out of space, or a transfer the DMV has asked you to document separately. It is the one California form you cannot print at home.
There is no download link for the REG 262 here because there is not one anywhere - the California DMV does not publish it. The card below explains where it does come from.
Written against REG 262 (Security paper, not versioned online), issued under 49 CFR 580 and California Vehicle Code 5751. This is the form that turns a same-day sale into a two-week wait if you have not planned for it. If you know the title has no usable odometer line, order the REG 262 before you list the car.
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There is no completed sample of the REG 262 on this page because the DMV does not publish the form at all - it is printed on security paper so that the odometer disclosure it carries satisfies the federal regulations, and a document printed on security paper cannot be handed out as a PDF. Every REG 262 in existence came over a counter at a field office or arrived in the post, so there is no file for us to render, complete and photograph. What the form asks for is set out in the table below instead.
| On the form | What to put in it |
|---|---|
| Why there is no download link on this page | There is nothing to link to. The DMV's own wording: the REG 262 form is not available online because it is printed on security paper, which makes it compliant with federal odometer disclosure regulations. |
| How to get one | Call the DMV's automated voice system on 1-800-777-0133 and ask for a form to be mailed to you, or pick one up at a DMV field office. |
| Vehicle description | Plate or CF number, VIN, year and make, matching the certificate exactly. |
| Odometer disclosure | The reason the form exists and the reason it is on watermarked stock. Federal odometer regulations do not accept a photocopy. |
| Seller and buyer blocks | Printed names, addresses, signatures and dates, in ink, on the original sheet. |
There is no REG 262 to read: the California DMV does not publish it, so nothing on this page describes its contents beyond what the agency itself says about it — that is here — and what is on the California Department of Motor Vehicles pages. This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ, theirs governs.
This is the one form you can't print at home, so check the weekday hours of the Fresno, Fresno North and Clovis DMV offices before making the trip.
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