Replacing a lost car title in Connecticut
Connecticut charges $25, and the gap between filing online and filing by post is the widest of any state we read: about 20 business days against up to 90 days.
What Connecticut charges
The replacement title fee is $25. $25 replacement title on Form H-6B. Online filing takes about 7 minutes with delivery within 20 business days; mailed applications can take up to 90 days. Selling to another CT resident without the title in hand requires a completed Q-1 with the H-6B.
That figure comes from Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (CT DMV), read from its own page and current as of August 2026. The hub compares all fifty states if you want to see where Connecticut sits — the spread runs from $5 to $101, which is wider than most people expect for the same piece of paper.
The part that catches people out
The form is H-6B either way. Filed through the online portal it takes about seven minutes and delivery runs to roughly 20 business days. Posted, Connecticut warns it can take up to 90. That is nearly three months of a sale on hold, decided entirely by which route you pick on the day — and the online route costs the same $25.
Connecticut H-6B: Replacement Certificate of Title, with every box filled in
That is the document Connecticut wants, and we publish a worked example of it: Connecticut H-6B: Replacement Certificate of Title.
Connecticut also has a provision for selling before the replacement lands. A sale to another Connecticut resident without the certificate in hand needs a completed Q-1 alongside the H-6B, which is the state’s own acknowledgement that the wait would otherwise kill the transaction.
Related: what a replacement title costs in every state, and why the wait matters more than the fee · every Connecticut form a seller meets · selling a car in Connecticut.
Sources
- Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (CT DMV) — replacement title fee — Where the Connecticut figure of $25 was read, current as of August 2026
- Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (CT DMV) — agency home — The agency that issues Connecticut titles