Dealer license in San Diego County
San Diego sits in the Southern California coast. A coastal market running from the border to North County, built around freeway corridors. The license itself, though, is one statewide process — and our school runs it entirely online, so San Diego dealers prepare, certify, and file without a classroom trip.
The path in San Diego
Complete the DMV-required pre-license course online and earn your certificate (form OL 256A) — valid for one year. Our course is 360 real minutes of study across twelve sections, in English or Spanish.
Pass the DMV's 40-question exam in person — 70% (28 of 40) to pass, $16 fee. Our free practice test mirrors its format so the real one feels familiar.
Form your LLC, corporation, or sole proprietorship, and file your fictitious business name with San Diego County — or statewide through our default filing flow.
A $50,000 surety bond in your exact legal name, fingerprinting for every owner, and a real place of business that passes inspection — no residence, no post-office box.
Assemble and file the DMV packet. Our Template Kit completes every form from one profile, with a consistency check that catches the name mismatches that bounce applications back.
Our stack — planned launch pricing
San Diego questions
A DBA is a county filing, made with the county clerk where your dealership sits — for a San Diego lot, that is San Diego County. Our default flow files through the Los Angeles County online service, which accepts filings statewide and is fully online with e-signature; if any institution will not accept it, the system generates an identical local packet for your own county clerk, plus a short tutorial. Either way, your filing's five-year renewal date is tracked for you.
No. The 6-hour pre-license course and the 4-hour renewal course are taken entirely online, at your pace, from anywhere — including San Diego. The only in-person steps in the whole path are the DMV exam, Live Scan fingerprinting, and your premises inspection.
Separate our prices from the state's. With us: the $125 course and, if you want the packet done for you, the $50 kit or guided setup at $1,499 / $1,999 — all planned launch pricing. On top of that come government and third-party costs everyone pays: the $16 exam fee, the bond premium (set by the surety on your credit), Live Scan fees, your county DBA filing, and DMV application fees. We publish our side of the bill; nobody honest publishes a single all-in number because the bond premium varies by applicant.
Yes — the full course is built bilingually from the start: learn in Spanish, with the DMV's English terminology taught as vocabulary, and test in English because the state exam is in English. There is no Spanish surcharge, and the free practice test above is available in Spanish today.
Where the inventory is
These yards sit in or around San Diego itself:
The next-nearest options San Diego dealers use:
Every yard in this directory sells to licensed dealers — which is why the license comes first. See the full California auction directory for all 57 verified yards.
The course opens the moment DMV approval is issued. Founding-list members get first access, the launch prices, and a same-day email as each product becomes available.
Waitlist only — nothing is being sold and no payment is taken yet.