How to fill out Hawaii CS-L(MVR)70

Section A of a Hawaii certificate has one numeric field and two tick boxes, and both of them are easy to get wrong under a buyer's gaze. This one-page statement is the county's cure, and it is written as a confession rather than a correction: this statement is attesting to the fact that I am responsible for the following error made in recording the odometer reading for the above-described vehicle. It offers exactly two remedies. Either the correct reading is one number and was incorrectly written as another, or the box indicating the mileage exceeds its mechanical limits or is not the actual mileage should not have been checked off. Anything outside those two is not a correction the form can make.

Written against CS-L(MVR)70 (03/2026), issued under City and County of Honolulu Department of Customer Services, Division of Motor Vehicles, as the registered owner's own admission of an error in a recorded odometer reading. Correcting a mileage entry is a federal-disclosure matter, not housekeeping. The bill of sale and the registration application both print the warning that failure to complete or providing a false statement may result in fines and imprisonment, and this form's whole design - name the wrong figure, name the right one, admit responsibility - exists so the county can see the change was a correction rather than a revision.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank CS-L(MVR)70 from the www4.honolulu.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our CS-L(MVR)70 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Every line, in the order you meet it

1. 1
   You fill this in

   Year, make, type and plate

   The description block. It identifies the vehicle whose recorded reading is wrong, using the same shorthand as every other county form.

   Watch out: Copy the type code from the certificate of registration. A correction form that describes the car differently from the record it is correcting invites a second query.

2. 2
   You fill this in

   Vehicle identification number

   The full VIN. This is what ties the correction to the right record when a plate has changed.

   Watch out: Check it against the certificate you are correcting, not against the car alone - if the two disagree, the VIN is the bigger problem.

3. 3
   You fill this in

   The correct reading, and the wrong one

   One sentence with two blanks: the correct odometer reading is ____ which was incorrectly written as ____. Fill both.

   Watch out: Write the incorrect figure exactly as it appears on the certificate, digit for digit. The county is matching your statement against an entry it already holds.

4. 4
   You fill this in

   Or: the box that should not have been ticked

   The second remedy, with its own tick box, for a mileage exception claimed by mistake - either the mechanical-limits box or the not-actual-mileage box.

   Watch out: Use one remedy or the other. A form claiming both a wrong number and a wrongly ticked box describes two errors, and the county will want to know which entry to replace.

What gets this one rejected

• •Using it to lower a reading you regret. The statement is an admission of an error in recording, not a route to a different number.
• •Filling in only the correct figure. The sentence has two blanks and both are needed: the county replaces a specific wrong entry, not the field in general.
• •Trying to add an exception box rather than remove one. The tick box on this form only unpicks a box that should not have been checked off.
• •Correcting the certificate with a pen instead. Altering the reading on the title itself defaces it, and a defaced certificate must be replaced by a duplicate before anyone can sign it.
• •Signing it for someone else's error. The statement opens by attesting that the person signing is responsible for the error - it is the registered owner's admission.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

• •Two remedies, no others. A wrong number, or a wrongly ticked exception. A missing reading on a vehicle that needed one is a different problem and is not what this sheet fixes.
• •It travels with the certificate. The correction has to reach the county with the transaction it relates to. On its own it is a statement about a record nobody is looking at.
• •The mileage codes are the same three everywhere in Hawaii. A true reading with nothing ticked, mileage in excess of mechanical limits, or not the actual mileage. This form's second remedy exists because the middle one gets ticked by mistake.
• •Whole miles, as everywhere else. Every Hawaii odometer field prints no tenths, and a correction that introduces a decimal replaces one error with another.
• •Each county publishes its own. Maui's forms library lists an odometer correction statement used by the registered owners to correct odometer error on certificate of title. Use the version belonging to the county holding the record.

Every line here was read off CS-L(MVR)70 (03/2026) itself — the PDF is here — and off the City and County of Honolulu Division of Motor Vehicle, Licensing and Permits pages. This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ, theirs governs.

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