California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) outages and problems
In the past 24 hours, 159 user reports came in for California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Counting only the 15-minute windows with a spike big enough to count as an outage, that comes to 93.75% uptime for the day.
The most recent spike big enough to count as an outage was 1 hour ago. The busiest 15-minute window of the day had 26 reports, about 2 hours ago.
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Outage
Ended 1 h agoLasted 1 h 30 min26peak reports
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Outage
Ended 5 h agoLasted 15 min12peak reports
California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in November 2026
- Problem reports in November (since 2 November)
- 157
Monthly report for November 2026
People who report a problem with California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to the outage-report feed behind this page can tag what is affected. These are the categories they can pick; the feed shows no counts per category:
- Website
- Login
- Payments
- App
- Updates
- Forms & Applications
California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) problem spikes, last 30 days
Since 2 November, California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) had 2 outage spikes. The longest lasted 1 h 30 min, on 2 November.
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Outage
Mon 2 Nov, 19:53–21:23Lasted 1 h 30 min31peak reports
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Outage
Mon 2 Nov, 17:35–17:55Lasted 20 min12peak reports
A spike is a sharp rise in problem reports from users, kept exactly as this page showed it at the time. This history starts on 2 November 2026. Monthly reports for all services
How to fix California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) not working
California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is up on our end, so if it won't work for you, the problem is most likely on your side. Work through these in order:
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Reload and restart
Reload the page (Ctrl+F5, or Cmd+Shift+R on a Mac), or fully close the app and open it again.
Try another connection
Switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data. If it works on one and not the other, the problem is your network, not California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
Update the app
Install the latest version from the App Store or Google Play. Old versions can stop connecting after a server-side change.
Problems at the same time as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
Since 2 November, all 2 of California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)'s spikes in problem reports overlapped a spike at another service.
When several services get problem reports at once, something they share, such as a cloud host or a network, can be the real cause. Matching times alone do not prove it.
Most often at the same time
- YouTube2 times
- National Lottery2 times
- Sainsbury’s2 times
- T-Fiber2 times
- Archive of Our Own2 times
- Capital One2 times
How many of California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)'s spikes overlapped one of theirs.
During the latest spike
California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV): Mon 2 Nov, 19:53 to 21:23
- YouTube, outage,1 Nov 00:43 to 22:23
- National Lottery, outage,06:08 to 22:23
- Sainsbury’s, outage,09:53 to 22:23
- T-Fiber, outage,11:23 to 22:23
- Capital One, outage,12:38 to 22:23
- Starbucks, outage,13:08 to 22:23
- ADP, outage,14:53 to 22:08
- U-Haul, outage,14:53 to 22:23
77 more services. Red dot: outage. Amber dot: elevated reports.
A spike is a sharp rise in problem reports from users, as the live pages showed it. Times are Central European time.
California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) IP address, servers and network
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How we track California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
The status on this page comes from user-submitted problem reports for California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), counted in 15-minute windows over the last 24 hours. Each window is compared with the normal level for California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), so a few complaints on a quiet day don't trigger anything, but a sudden jump well above normal does.
When reports climb well above normal, the status here changes to partial outage or major outage and the chart moves with it. California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) doesn't publish a public status page that we know of, so user reports are often the quickest sign that something is wrong on their side.