California DMV: Can't Renew Registration Online

That reminds me, a couple of years ago I went to AAA in Salinas to renew my wife's Jeep Cherokee registration, even though the DMV was right down the street. My wife and I both insure our vehicles at AAA and are AAA members in good standing. AAA person said she could not give me the registration nor the sticker because my name was not on the title/registration of the vehicle and they had to mail it to the address on record. I showed my driver's license which, of course, had the same address as my spouse's stuff and her registration. AAA still refused to hand over the stuff to me in person after I asked for a supervisor, explaining it was out of their hands and they had to follow DMV regulations. But I claimed they were in actuality going to mail the registration and sticker to myself. My logic did not get through to anyone there on the premises. I refused to pay them anything and left, hotter than a two-dollar pistol.

Went to the AAA office in Mill Valley, paid the registration no problem, and was handed my spouse's registration and sticker (no questions asked and no fight or flight response resulted in my, by then, already poor, frayed nervous system).