Self-Service Kiosks

Kiosks will accept either the access code or bar code from your renewal notice or the license plate number and last 4 digits of the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). You must complete a smog check first if one is required for your vehicle.

Kiosks can process your registration renewal approximately 35 days before expiration and up to 18 months late.

Kiosk, Internet and telephone renewals cannot process address changes, apply tax exemptions or use fee credits. Please mail your renewal if you want to use fee credits, a Veterans exemption or any other tax exemption.

Vehicle registrations can be suspended for a lapse in insurance coverage. To reinstate the registration at a kiosk or online:

• You must have the access code or bar code from the suspension notice.
• The registration must be actually suspended (see the suspension date on the notice).
• Your insurance company must have reported your current insurance to the DMV (reporting can take up to one month).

E-mail us or call 800-344-0483 for further information. The kiosks will process your registration renewal in the same transaction if the renewal is due.

You may obtain a three-year, school bus or ten-year driver history report for insurance or employment purposes. You will need information from your current driver's license to access this service.

See Driver History Reports for other options to get your own history. You may not use a kiosk to obtain another person's history. Nevada has very restrictive privacy laws regarding access by third parties. See Public Records Access.

If you have received a post card asking you to renew in person, you must visit a DMV Full Service or Express Office. License renewals will be added to the kiosks in early 2009.

The Nevada DMV updated its kiosk program in the summer of 2008 with all new machines. New features on these kiosks include driver history printouts, payment by check and the ability to dispense coins as change. The coin capability enables the kiosks to accept registration renewals up to 18 months late.

The older style kiosks, pictured on the right, debuted in the spring of 2004. These machines and the kiosk program as a whole won five national awards in 2006.

Director Ginny Lewis was named "Industry Deployer of the Year" and the department's self-service kiosks took top honors for "Best Kiosk Application for Government, Education or a Non-Profit Agency" at the 2006 KioskCom Self-Service Expo in Las Vegas.

The kiosks also won the "Platinum Outstanding Achievement Award" and two other awards at Self Service World magazine's annual show in San Antonio, Texas.