Before buying a car, it is important to protect yourself from unwanted situations that may arise after purchasing a car from an unscrupulous seller.
In order to get a better idea of vehicle, you should check the car for participation in traffic accidents, being wanted, the presence of restrictions imposed on registration actions. It is also important to familiarize yourself with the basic information about the car and the periods of its registration with the State traffic inspectorate for different owners.
You can get all this information on the official website of the traffic police. However, it is worth considering that you can check a car on this web resource only by VIN - vehicle identification number, as well as body and chassis numbers.
It will not be possible to check a car according to the license plate on the website of the State traffic inspectorate. That is, if you know only the registration plate (car number), you will need to use another web resource.
In this case, AutoCode will come to the rescue - a single platform for car owners in Russia and abroad, providing complete and up-to-date information about the car regarding the history of its ownership and operation.
Undoubtedly, an important advantage of this service is the ability to check a car according to the State Number - an individual vehicle registration plate, consisting of an alphanumeric combination and a regional code, which will need to be entered in a specially designated field. You can see the state number on the back and front bumpers the vehicle itself, as well as in the vehicle registration certificate - a document confirming the registration of the vehicle and its belonging to a specific owner.
AutoCode allows you to check various information on the car you are interested in. So, you can get acquainted with the summary data about the vehicle and data on the TCP - the vehicle passport. It should be noted that the service provides information that is entered into the information system in the traffic police, so there is no need to doubt their reliability.
It also provides information on all registration actions that were performed with the car. AutoCode also provides information on the participation of a vehicle in traffic accidents according to the State Safety Inspectorate. traffic.
Among other things, the service allows you to get acquainted with information about car mileage provided according to the mileage data indicated in the diagnostic cards during the next technical inspection.
According to the license plate of a car, you can also check the existing restrictions imposed by the traffic police - prohibitions on registration actions. Information about car theft and its work in a taxi is also provided here. You can also check whether the car is pledged to banks, whether there are fines for the vehicle, and so on.
It should be noted that obtaining full information about the car on AutoCode is a paid service. At your discretion, you can purchase a full report or buy one of the proposed reporting packages.
If you want to check a car by license plate, but there is no stationary device with Internet access nearby, a mobile application will help you, which will be especially useful when inspecting a car. You can download the mobile application using the appropriate links directly on the AutoCode website.
Widgets for checking a car from the online service "Autocode" are placed on the basis of a public partnership agreement with "Avtoraport" LLC. The terms of use of this service, prices can be found at
Main types of checks
Offers the site of the State traffic inspectorate as "traffic police check cars." At the moment, we can say with confidence that more and more citizens have begun to actively use the Internet service in order to use public services. It is much easier than personally coming to a certain authority, collecting a huge amount of documents, and also waiting in long lines.
Online service on the traffic police website
You don't have to do that anymore. It is enough just to visit the main website of the traffic police and get acquainted with all the popular services that make life much easier and allow you to quickly determine all the necessary information regarding a particular vehicle.
You can use checks for the following search queries:
You can also check the car for being in collateral using the FNP service.
Information about the vehicle being pledged After the check of the car is completed on the traffic police website, it will be possible to familiarize yourself with its results. There will be separate information for each item. It is important to remember that if, according to the results of the check, it turns out that the vehicle is wanted, then it is necessary to report this to the police. This can be done either by phone call or by visiting the branch in person.
Carrying out a check
In order to use the special traffic police service: checking a car, you must have certain data regarding this vehicle. Your best bet is to use the VIN.
VIN entry This is a unique number of seventeen characters, which is set by each manufacturer. Thanks to these figures, you can find out who created the vehicle and what serial number it has in production.
Each car has its own code. When a vehicle crosses the border with the Russian Federation, it must be registered. Then they enter this number into a single register. In certain situations, a set of numbers may be missing. In this case, to carry out a car check on the traffic police portal, you must use the following numbers, which are located on the chassis and body of the vehicle.
These figures for checking a car for the traffic police are also different. Each user only needs to enter the numbers in the specially designated lines on the official website of the traffic police to get comprehensive information about the car. In order for the request to be processed by the system, you need to wait a little time. Processing the received information does not take more than one minute.
VIN check Checking the vehicle thanks to the identification number
Thanks to the vehicle identification number, you can easily get all the necessary information on it. This means that you no longer need to spend a huge amount of time visiting various authorities, checking documents, standing in queues. From now on, on the website of the traffic police, you can check the car for free and in the shortest possible time.
If the car was wanted or it was imposed registration restrictions, then the verification system will definitely determine this. As a result, each person has the opportunity to significantly save their time and money in such a way that they do not end up in the hands of an experienced fraudster. Because at the moment, hundreds of thousands of cars are stolen every year, which are sent to other countries and sold there to gullible buyers. And if you check the VIN code every time, then you can deprive yourself of many problems.
The fact is that then, upon receipt of a new car, you can immediately check it without unnecessary paperwork or a personal application to the traffic police. It is enough just to use the functionality of the main portal.
Documents for determining the legality of car registration
Not everyone uses the traffic police website to check a car. Additionally, be sure to check the documentation for the vehicle. At the moment when the appearance of the car suits the driver, you can proceed to the direct verification of securities. In order to have full confidence in the legal purity of this car, you need to check the following references:
- TCP, as the main document on the characteristics of the car;
- registration certificate;
- power of attorney to conclude a sale transaction.
The last point is necessary if the seller is the official representative of the owner of this property. Be sure to ensure that all documents are notarized.
When buying a new vehicle, quite often they encounter a fake TCP. If such a purchase is made, then a person may simply lose his money. It is very important to carefully examine the documents for signs of forgery. It should be borne in mind that all traffic police documents have certain degrees of protection, which makes it easier to check the car.
The form on which the TCP is issued must be made at Goznak enterprises. In this case, it is necessary to have several degrees of protection. The simplest method of verification is the ability to look at the documents through the light. Special blotches that are on banknotes should immediately appear.
If you touch the text "Vehicle Passport", then such an inscription must be embossed. For a hologram on a document, there are also certain requirements. She definitely needs to be bright and iridescent. In appearance, this detail shimmers like a circle or strip. Obviously, all the details on the form should be an indispensable part of it, and it is imperative that each element of the traffic police document when checking a car should not be glued with glue or tape.
There is a special pattern on the upper left corner on the back of the document. According to its parameters, it is very voluminous, and also has the shape of a rose. The color of the existing image, if you change the angle of inclination, will definitely change. At the same time, the colors shimmer from green to gray.
When a potential buyer does not find appearance PTS of the presence of a fake, then you need to start familiarizing yourself with the content of the securities. It is extremely important to carefully review all available documentation. For example, you need to know that the two digits that are the first in the series determine the region in the Russian Federation that issued this document.
An important feature is that if the vehicle was created in our country, then its region code must necessarily correspond to the one located on the special seal of the manufacturer. It is located in the lower left corner. The signature of the person who issued this security is also located there. Thanks to this information about the traffic police documents, checking the car will be much faster and easier.
Increasingly, there are cases of selling used cars that have been in an accident.
Therefore, before purchasing a vehicle, you need to make sure whether the vehicle really could have been involved in a traffic accident. The article will tell you how to check the car for an accident.
How to check a car for an accident yourself?
There are several methods to check a car for an accident will be reliable. If future owner wants to buy a used car, then he should conduct a kind of research. To do this, you need to get information about the product.
For example, if the transport was found via the Internet, then you can find out how long the ad hangs: a long time can be an indicator of a low-quality product. But it is better to keep in mind more effective methods of checking a car for an accident.
First, you need to visually analyze the transport, because most of the damage is very visible even when you first get acquainted with the car.
But to facilitate this process, it is worth remembering for yourself some recommendations of experts:
- The inspection should take place in good light, because many owners will make an appointment in the evening to hide any defects.
- The car is better to be cleaned, as dirt can mask the damage perfectly.
- It is worth paying attention to painting: it should be applied evenly.
- Color Mismatch: wrecked car usually repainted, but sometimes even a slight mismatch between the old and new colors can be a sign of a low-quality car.
- Textured finish.
Checking through the website of the traffic police
An accident check is provided on the official website of the traffic police. This is a fairly popular database that stores all information about all vehicles that are registered in the country.
Some may not trust Internet resources, so these owners prefer to come to the traffic police department. However, the final result will still be the same as it was presented through the site, because the branch employee will work through the same resource.
How to check for an accident by VIN code on the Internet?
It is possible to obtain data on an accident by VIN-code. Several Internet sources have been developed, through which you can get the necessary information.
Vincar
This site cooperates with the traffic police and insurance companies. It will be easy enough to break through the car by the number of accidents by vin. Vin (to be specified) is the special number of the car.
The database is updated very often, as adjustments are made there. This is done by employees who are provided with all the data of insurance organizations. After fifteen days after an accident, hijacking, declaring a vehicle wanted, all this information is added to the database.
carfax
This resource is much higher than other resources, because it is he who has many advantages in organizing work:
- convenient interface, because it is enough to drive a number or wine number into the designated column to check;
- all entered information is processed fairly quickly due to the automation of the system;
- the result is a report that the user receives, and the report is compiled correctly, in detail;
- an option to make a copy of the report in electronic format.
Autocode
This is a specialized service created on the basis of a state program for informing about cars for the presence of an accident by numbers or by VIN. At the moment, the service stores more than thirty-five million reports. You can also get photos from the scene of accidents.
In order for the car to be checked for an accident, it is enough to enter the minimum data about the car. But this process is not free, because if there is information about a particular transport, the owner must buy it, but at a meager price.
Data is always compiled in detail, from which information can be obtained about:
- characteristics of the vehicle;
- run;
- accidents in which the car could be involved;
- operating the car as a taxi;
- about possible searches;
- possible purchase of goods on credit;
- repair procedures that concerned the facility;
- customs control data can also be provided.
AutoCAD is best used because it provides information not only about incidents, but also gives complete description one vehicle or another.
Vin online
Checking the car on vin-online. During the registration of a purchased car, the vin number is read from it. If there is information about this, then the owner selling the car is decent. In addition, this indicates that the car did not get into an accident.
If the future owner of a used car cannot find information by number via the Internet, then he can enter chassis numbers or body registration data to obtain information. With the help of this manipulation, you can also find out about fines and that the future property was not stolen.
Through insurance companies
Insurance companies also have special databases that provide an opportunity to obtain the necessary information.
An insurance agent can help with this, but there are a few things to consider:
- if there was an accident, then the previous owner probably applied to the company for damages, then this moment is entered into the database and subsequently displayed in it.
Through the website of the State Services
If a future car user wants to know about possible prohibitions that have ever been imposed on a vehicle, then the State Services website will become his assistant. You can check the state data by VIN.
The site provides quite extensive data:
- about fines;
- about prohibitions;
- about past owners;
- about an accident;
- about damage.
But it is worth remembering that all information can be presented only after it is fixed by traffic police officers. If some kind of accident was registered without the state traffic inspectorate and insurance organizations, then information about this car will not be indicated on the website. So check it out and keep that in mind.
What to remember when checking for participation in an accident?
So, for safe traffic on a used car, it is worth punching it in the database to get all the information about it and, if necessary, about the previous owner. Only on proven cars will the real owner feel comfortable behind the wheel, knowing for sure that the vehicle was not registered in an accident and that it was not stolen.
To check, just go to one of the above sites (if someone does not trust the Internet, then he can contact the traffic police department), drive in the VIN or number and thereby check. The result will be instant, as the sites are equipped with automation that allows you to get information in a matter of minutes.
Video review - how to break through an accident
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In order to " break the car through the bases"For its legal purity, before a motorist needed to have certain connections in the authorities, or a certain amount of funds, to pay for services to third-party organizations that helped to find out all the necessary information about the car for money. In our computerized and automated time, a car can be checked by the VIN number everyone, and absolutely free, just having access to the Internet.To do this, you need to go to the traffic police website using the link and make the appropriate checks:
Checking vehicle registration history
This service will be quite useful for those who buy a car with a duplicate title, where to determine the number former owners TC cannot be determined. And for the complacency of the future buyer, this information will be interesting.
So, after you have entered the VIN - number, click on the link to request a vehicle check, enter the captcha, and you will see information about the number of people who owned the vehicle, as well as the periods of their ownership.
For participation in an accident by VIN
You should not particularly count on the reliability of this check, since data on accidents with the vehicle being checked are taken into account only from 2015, while the fact of an accident must be registered by a traffic police officer and registered in the traffic police AIMS database. Thus, if the car flew into a tree, demolished the fender fence, crashed into another vehicle and disappeared, or agreed with another participant in the incident and broke up with him amicably, you will not receive information about this.
Here, everything is the same to check the car for participation in an accident, you will need the VIN number of the car, after entering it, click - request information. Enter captcha. And everything is before your eyes. As you can see, in the case under consideration, no accident facts were recorded.
To be wanted
For the future car owner, this information is quite important and relevant, because if the vehicle is wanted, it is not possible to register it with the State traffic inspectorate. As a rule, a car that fled the scene of an accident may be wanted. So, in order to break through a car for being wanted, you will still need only its VIN number, clicking the "request" link, entering captcha. After all these manipulations, the following picture will appear before you - if everything is in order with the vehicle:
We repeat that if the vehicle is wanted, it cannot be registered.
Check for restrictions
As you can see pierce the vehicle before buying just a must if you buy it from a dubious seller. After all, you can buy a car, but after that it turns out that you will not be able to register it and take ownership of it, since a number of restrictions can be imposed on the car. So, after entering the captcha, you should see the inscription "No restrictions found", but if you see something else, for example, as in the images below, you are out of luck, and very big, if you have already bought a vehicle.
To be on bail
Also, an important factor in collecting information about the vehicle will be checking for the presence of movable property in pledge. Of course, you can easily register such a vehicle with the traffic police. However, if the previous owner ceases to fulfill the pledged circumstances, the vehicle may be seized as a subject of pledge. In order to protect yourself before concluding a sale and purchase transaction, it will not be superfluous to check the subject of the transaction for its being pledged. To do this, go to the website of the federal notary chamber and look for all the necessary information in the register of notifications on the pledge of movable property. Follow the link https://www.reestr-zalogov.ru/search/index
After that, switch to the tab "By information about the subject of collateral", enter the VIN number and look at the results of the issuance. If nothing is found in the search results - everything is fine, but if you see a picture like the one below, it is better to refuse to buy such a car.
After you have driven the car through all the databases, and they have not revealed any deviations, you can, with almost 100% certainty, buy, register it as a property and register it with the State Traffic Inspectorate.
Checking the car according to the state. The number was unavailable for a long time, but now the situation in Russia has changed.
What might it be needed for? First of all, such a service will be useful for those who want to buy a used car and want to know its "history", that is, data on previous operating conditions, the absence of possible restrictions and other similar features.
At the same time, the convenience lies in the fact that in some cases you can check the car you are interested in by the state registration number remotely.
For example, you can “break through” a car in advance, which is sold according to an ad on AVITO, where the state is visible in the photo. vehicle number.
Such a mechanism does not always work, since many sellers cover license plates of cars in ads, however, in some cases, such a check allows you to learn more about the vehicle you are interested in.
Verification of information about the used car indicated in the advertisement for its sale
Online car check according to the state. number today is possible on several resources, differing from each other in the volume of databases and the amount of information provided.
For example, we took an advertisement for the sale of a car on the popular AVITO classifieds website. The main criterion for the search was the presence of an undisguised license plate on the vehicle.
A random ad was selected on AVITO for the sale of a car Nissan Almera 2013, used as a taxi.
The ad included the following information about the vehicle:
As an experiment, the goal was set: knowing his state. number, find out detailed information about this vehicle.
Of course, the free car check service offered by the official website of the traffic police is of the greatest interest to all motorists. We decided to see what the official resource offers and compare it with an alternative service in order to understand which one will be the most useful for a potential car buyer.
Checking a car according to the state. number and VIN code of the car for free on the website of the traffic police
The official website of the traffic police disappointed us in this regard at the initial stage of acquaintance.
Going to the “Services” section, we selected the “Vehicle Check” option and immediately realized that we could get information about the vehicle, knowing only its state. number will not work: the service works exclusively by the VIN number of the vehicle.
Accordingly, we will not be able to find out information about the car being sold, unless, of course, the owner of the car provides its VIN (or the VIN code is indicated in the ad itself).
Of course, the vast majority of sellers do not provide such information remotely, and therefore you will have to meet with the car owner and check the vehicle on the spot using a tablet computer or laptop with Internet access.
Video - how to find out the VIN number for free when checking a car according to the state. number:
As an option, call someone you know and, sending the VIN code, ask them to take the appropriate verification steps. The scheme, of course, is far from the most convenient, but, in theory, this fact should be compensated by the widest database available on the site.
Video - how easy it is to find out the VIN according to the state. car number (method number 2):
Since we could not find the VIN of the car we were checking from the ad, we nevertheless decided to test the operation of the service on the example of a car whose VIN code was known to us.
Let's start with the interface. In general, it consists of a large window for entering the VIN number and sections for which the check will be carried out.
After entering the code, you will need to separately click on the link of each of the sections, each time entering the security identification code (colloquially, captcha). Immediately after entering it, the information of interest should appear. Should…
Alas, our experiment ended in failure - there was no data about the tested car in the database, although the car was taken in 2012, that is, information about it should have been present. It is hard to say how one can explain the “stupidity of the system”. But the site did not give any errors about the search and other information, simply indicating that the data was not found.
In practice, this means that we failed to get real information about the car using the service and knowing the VIN. In fairness, it must be said that earlier the traffic police service still gave out information.
Faced with a similar difficulty, we decided to analyze what third-party services offer and opted for the avtobot.net website.
Checking the car according to the state. number online
Unlike the traffic police website, the avtobot.net service offers to check a car by VIN code or state. vehicle number of your choice. Despite the absence of separate instructions, these numbers can be entered separately, that is, the absence of VIN or state. numbers should in no way affect the result of obtaining data (we are not talking about detailed information, but about the very possibility of working with one number).
We decided to check how true the "pedigree" of the car (which we chose as an example - see the ad on AVITO above) is true and see what the car check on the avtobot.net website can offer us.
Having entered the numbers of the registration plate (VIN, of course, we did not know), we proceeded to the next paragraph, which contains information about two technical inspections
and there was an offer to purchase a paid full report. Its cost was, according to the website, 199 rubles.
After that, it is proposed to indicate the e-mail address to which an extended report on checking the car according to the state will be sent. number
I must say that paid services on the network often cause well-deserved fears among citizens due to the fact that there are a large number of fraudulent sites offering payment with mobile phone, entering a number with subsequent withdrawal of funds, sending SMS messages and more.
In this case, everything turned out to be much simpler - two payment methods are available - through the Yandex Money service and using a bank card.
However, the presence of a card does not change much - in any case, payment takes place on a Yandex wallet using the regular capabilities of the service from a well-known Russian search engine. It is worth noting that no commissions are charged for using the service - the invoice for payment amounted to exactly 199 rubles, as it was originally indicated.
After the payment was made, a message was sent to the previously indicated email address (the report is sent to it) informing about the order number and the password for access to the personal account, where you can also check its status.
The report waiting time is stated up to 24 hours, which, however, can hardly be considered convenient in case of an urgent check of a car, for example, in the car market. Nevertheless, if you want to check the car against the databases from the ad, then such terms for receiving a report are quite acceptable. In our case, the report came after five hours and pleasantly pleased with its volume ().
The first thing that caught my eye was information about the VIN of the car, the number of owners, the participation of the vehicle in an accident and the presence of restrictions.
Interestingly, there is also data on the mileage of the vehicle. It is difficult to say where such data comes from in the service database, but the fact is the fact.
Even a cursory analysis shows that the data of the report differ significantly from those indicated in the advertisement for the sale of the car.
The difference is also noticeable in the number of owners (four instead of one, given that three owners are legal entities), and in the concealment of the fact of a traffic accident, as well as in the “twisted” (relative to that indicated in the report) mileage.
As already mentioned, it is not entirely clear on the basis of what data on car mileage is given in the database. Most likely, the information is indicated for vehicles undergoing diagnostics and Maintenance at official dealer, where the mileage indicators are fixed.
In practice, this means that the information in the database will be relevant until the moment when the car was serviced in dealer center. Considering that many motorists "go" with warranty service or stop attending official services after the warranty expires, real mileage car may be even higher.
In the case of the ad we are analyzing, this means that the mileage is twisted very significantly, and in reality the car “dashed”, quite likely, even more.
From all this, only one fact follows - it is extremely undesirable to buy this car. At the same time, in order to draw such a conclusion, we did not even need to leave the office, which is undoubtedly very valuable.
Video - why hide the state. numbers in ads for the sale of used cars and what you can find out from them:
In practice, many car owners hide the state. numbers on photographs of the car used in conjunction with the announcement of its sale. For this reason, there can be only one recommendation - a personal inspection followed by checking the vehicle against various databases.
conclusions
After analyzing two sources of obtaining information about the car according to the state. number or VIN-code, we came to the conclusion that such a measure is effective.
The avtobot.net site turned out to be much more efficient in this regard and made it possible to obtain comprehensive information about the car, even if only its state was known. number (there was no information about VIN in the ad).
Some of the disadvantages of the resource include only relative "slowness", which does not allow using the resource to check the car directly during the inspection of the vehicle using a tablet or smartphone.
Nevertheless, the opportunity to learn the "history" of a particular car immediately when viewing an ad for sale is truly unique and effective, and the fee for using such a service looks very democratic, given the completeness of the information received.
We can conclude that it is possible only on the website of the traffic police or other government agencies. Per Additional information on alternative online services you will have to pay.
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Comments on the article:
Tanya
Wow, just going to change the car. Buying a new one is expensive, so we will look for a used one and such a check will help us. It is a pity that it is not always possible to check by state number (judging by your experiment). But the wine code is also not bad, if only the information on the traffic police website or others was updated and reliable.
Lyokha
In general, such a check is also quite dreary and it is not a fact that the information found is true. For me, it's better to take a loan and buy new car. I understand that it is not cheap, but 90+ percent will be able to pull. This is how I take my third car, although I work at a school, and everyone has heard what meager salaries there are. Well, if the situation doesn’t look like a loan at all and you have to rely only on used ones, then, ignoring the information presented, take your feet in your hands, bring a good specialist with you, and go watch “live”. I have lived a lot, and I have seen cars after two accidents in much more best condition than never hit. Everything is relative.
Michael
Once I needed to find the escaped culprit of an accident involving my car in the parking lot using the state number of his car, and I got the information through a friend who has friends in the traffic police. But when buying a car, I prefer to be guided by my own eyes and hands.
Lera
Somehow I decided to check the fines for the state number and it turned out that I had as many as 3 protocols. A tripod stood not far from work and recorded how I was in a hurry. Well, at least I managed to pay 2 fines with discounts.
Anton
My wife and I, literally in December last year, saw a Renault Logan car put up for sale on AVITO, the mileage was not great, garage storage, one owner. Fired up to buy it. From the photographs, the car looked like from the salon. The first thing they did was to ask their relative to drive to the specified address and see the car in kind. He looked, he liked it, he says that it is literally new. We still asked him to discreetly write down the state number. This helped us a lot, the information on the traffic police website also turned out to be good. We didn’t know anything about an alternative site, so we asked a friend of a former traffic police officer, he struck in his own way and it turned out that the third owner, and for about three years the car was used in a taxi. Didn't buy.
Boris
I believe that it is imperative to break through, but often almost everyone pays the traffic police to clean up such information.
Dmitriy
Of course, it’s better to spend 200 rubles now than to find out in the traffic police about the real facts about the car later. I know that there is a site where information is checked for free, my good friend does this, because he is engaged in outbidding, but I can’t say exactly which one, unfortunately, I didn’t find out from him.
Oleg
Of course, we all want to buy a clean, unencumbered car. Therefore, it is necessary to do this independently for all bases. To do this, we need to know the VIN code (vin) of the car, although the license plate may be enough. It is best to break through the bases: traffic police, FSSP, FCS, pledge registry, banks, taxi registry, OSAGO insurance companies, vin decoding. Any of us can do it on our own and for free.
There are many services that do all this automatically. All of them have a connection with official bases and it is easier to find out the history of a car there. This is how they analyze Internet data - these are forums and ad sites, social networks, the information on them is much more complete and reliable than on the traffic police website.
When buying a car from my hands, I used some of them:
AvtoBot.net - here you can find out everything about the car you are interested in by the VIN code or car number: how many owners there were, see a photo of the car, there were accidents and how many, the presence of restrictions, customs clearance, check for theft, see if and who claimed to be the owner on the Internet ;
I also liked the Autocode site - although it is paid, somewhere around 500 rubles, but it's worth it. In addition to all the checks performed, you can find out there whether the car was registered as a taxi (unless, of course, the owner passed a technical inspection).
If the car is legally clean and you are satisfied with its price, then I would advise you to inspect it with a car forensic specialist and carry out diagnostics in a car service center for a twisted mileage, a painted body.Anatoly
It is sometimes necessary to find out certain information about the car and its owner for various reasons. The first most common is buying a used car. The second car made an accident and, as they say, disappeared in an unknown direction, but the witnesses remembered its license plate number. There may be other reasons as well. Any person, first of all, on this issue turns to the traffic police, because only there you can find comprehensive information about any registered vehicle. Such information is difficult, but possible to get from the employees of this organization. Currently, the traffic police has organized a website on the Internet, where such information should be freely available according to the state number and wine code, but the information content of such resources is carried out by specific people, it is difficult to achieve the desired content of the site with the required information. Specific information about cars is, as a rule, in different departments and divisions of the traffic police, people work there who often do not understand the seriousness of this work, or people who are not interested, since this kind of information preparation takes a lot of time and does not affect wages for them. Time will pass and all this will be overcome, and now there are a lot of alternative sites on the Internet, the organizers of which find a way to obtain the necessary information. Information, first of all, is taken from the documents of the car owner at the time he placed an advertisement for sale, where I don’t know yet, but I believe that if the advertisement contains information that the car has been checked, then it is so. By joint efforts, I think, order will be put in place in this necessary matter.
Alexander
I'll tell you about my personal experience of finding a used car. Inspected 8 cars different brands no more than 3 years of operation, I note that all cars according to the traffic police bases and bailiffs were “clean”. As a result, 5 cars are broken, which can be seen even with the naked eye, 2 cars with duplicate titles (perhaps they hide that the car is pledged). As a result, out of 8, only 1 car did not raise any particular doubts about the veracity of the information described in the announcement.
Laura
In general, such resources offer fairly reliable information. But, do not forget that databases are collected "manually", and errors also sometimes happen due to the notorious human factor. This information should be used as primary, and the final decision should be made on the spot after a professional inspection. Actually, that's what happened to me. I always dreamed of Honda, but there were very few offers for this brand. I chose three options on AVITO, after checking on the "Autobot" I immediately refused the first - they deceived with the number of owners. The second one is very tempting, but doubts about the mileage crept in: for 4 years of operation, only 15 thousand km were delivered. The seller was flooded with a nightingale that he was saving the car like the apple of his eye. In general, she really ran the "tag", though because she stood in the garage for two years after a serious accident. It is not clear how information about the accident did not get into the databases. And only in the third case everything came together: both in the announcement and in reality. In general, from personal experience, I would boldly recommend checking it on the proposed resources before inspecting the selected machine. It is possible that you will save both time and nerves. But it’s better not on the traffic police website - it seemed to me not very reliable (I just checked the second car on it).
Ivanovich
I have only bought a used car once in my life. It was long ago in the late eighties of the last century. I did not buy a car from a private person in one of the institutions of my city. Then everything was easier, I wrote down the number of the car in my notebook, went to the traffic police for an appointment with the head of the traffic police. I asked him the question that, they say, I want to buy a car, here is its number, is it possible to do this, is everything in order with it according to the records. The head of the traffic police asked to call in three days, he needed time to figure it out. Three days later he suggested what needs to be done to buy a car, what papers to prepare, where to make an assessment, and all in a week I drove this car. Now everything is more difficult. My wife and I decided to buy a Renault Logan car according to an ad posted on AVITO. We looked at the photos for a long time, the car looked like it was in the cabin. In addition to the phone, no VIN code is indicated, and the state number is shaded. I went to the address, agreed with the owner on the phone, examined the car - it is good. I quietly wrote down the number of the car, and then I decided in the old fashioned way to turn to a familiar traffic cop. He punched through his channels, said don’t take it, this car has a ruined reputation, it’s already the fourth owner and for the last three years it has worked in a taxi. While the old way for me turned out to be truer. Bought a car in the cabin.
Maria
Who finds their fines by state number? Be careful, because they send left fines, even from Magadan, although I'm in Moscow)
Sergei
It's good that now there are such sites for checking a car before buying. Recently, I helped my brother choose a car, and if they hadn’t checked by the VIN code and by number, they would have rolled 10 times for nothing. Cars were chosen not only in their area, but also in neighboring ones. These services save time and money.
Anna
Was with our family negative experience buying a used car. Bought from a good friend, who later did not turn out to be so. We are still slurping with the car, Opel. but it is crumbling in parts, more has already been spent on repairs than the purchase of the car itself. Therefore, it is better to think carefully than to buy a used car, even if it is from acquaintances / friends.
Macarius
I was selling my Matiz car, I posted an ad on the AVITO website. I have my own house, in the yard there is a garage in which the car was stored, so I decided not to hide information about the car on the website for buyers. The announcement also placed the State number and VIN code. It helped me a lot, buyers were found quickly, they came, they looked on the spot. Of the five buyers, three were clearly resellers, this was understandable because they put pressure on the price reduction not childishly. I calmly looked at their actions, since I knew my car well, and the arguments they gave about its poor quality were unconvincing for me. In the end, there were intelligible people who quickly wanted to buy a car, and they already tried to buy different models cars, but the amount of money they had allowed them to buy only Matiz. They shook hands, the deal was made honest and worthy. Therefore, I would like to say that in the used car market there are always two sides, a buyer and a seller, and, as a rule, both sides play around and dodge, some to sell, as they say, a dubious car, and others to buy good car is free. Guys should live more honestly, it would be easier for everyone. But the State registration authorities should also change their position, provide the necessary information for conducting purchase and sale transactions, as well as review sites selling information about cars, helping people understand how true it is.
Alexander
After reading the comments here, I was once again convinced of the correctness of the prevailing opinion - firstly, different situations happen, someone is lucky, someone is not very lucky, someone like resources help with a choice, someone has serious overlaps and, in Secondly, the purchase of used vehicles is an incomparably greater risk than buying in a salon from scratch. To be honest, I have never bought a used one, but like any average Russian, I don’t have the opportunity to purchase new car without credit. Therefore, sometimes I study sites with ads and check the cars I like according to the state. number on the resources that provide such an opportunity. It even happens that I go to see "live" if the offers are from my city. And in all cases, I repeat IN ALL, the information provided by online sources, whether it was the official website of the traffic police or the autobot, corresponded to reality. Unlike sellers' ads. No, of course, they do not always distort the real picture, but it happens. And, sometimes very strongly. I am well versed in cars, I have been doing body work for several years, I know many secrets of pre-sale preparation and I can easily identify a broken car. So, silence about the accident and the replacement of "rotten" are the most common "jambs" of sellers. If you decide to buy used, then take an experienced body specialist with you. Very useful, in my opinion.
Max
The site is certainly convenient, and 200 rubles is not a great price. But as already mentioned, it is not a fact that this is true information. Although I have not checked my car, I only know for sure that it is broken, and there is not a word about this in the documents.
Alexei
I have never visited Autobot at all, I have never even heard of such a thing. Of course, I visited the official website of the traffic police more than once, I didn’t check the car, but I found other information, paid fines, and, in general, I’m satisfied with the relevance, it hangs only often. I agree that earlier, a year and a half ago, there were problems, and it was hard to search, and the information is incomplete, but now the resource is being brought to mind, it seems. Now, Avito. Given that the site directly "lives" only from ads, the ratings depend on the completeness and quality of the information - naturally, this the best way to start the online check. No one will give you a 100% guarantee, and this is impossible, and I will recommend another resource that I am familiar with. This is autocode. The technique is simple - first we look at the photo on Avito, then we go to the autocode and in 5 - 10 minutes we get a bunch of information on the entered state. number. The most important thing that interests a potential buyer is the real mileage and year of manufacture, whether the car got into an accident, whether it was stolen. From personal experience, I’ll say that the information on the autocode corresponds to the real percentage by 90-95. In general, I would advise you to check the technique chosen on Avito on several resources, and on the official website of the traffic police, it’s necessary and first of all.
Nicholas
Well, I don't know if it's necessary. As a seller, I am against such services and I am not pleased if strangers dig into the history of my things. The buyer will probably be interested, but you need to understand that any buyer will sooner or later become a seller.
Anna
Selling a car last year Hyundai Solaris, who was in an accident under a dump truck. The buyer used the services of a car selection company. Employees were aware of the system for checking the state number and took advantage of this advantage. On the traffic police website, all information about the accident was indicated by registration number. It did not play into our hands, we had to give in the price of the car, but this service really helps in not buying a pig in a poke.
Viktor Kolovrat
Classical trading relationship: the seller wants to sell more expensive, and the buyer wants to buy cheaper. Naturally, sellers prefer to remain silent about the problems of the cars they sell. And the buyer needs to collect as much information as possible about the transport he likes (mileage, approximate condition, information about getting into an accident, etc.) and it’s good if the seller is somewhere nearby - he came, looked, found out everything. What if it's in another city? Of course, in such cases it is necessary to use the wide possibilities of the Internet, collect information from special sites, but do not forget that the network is the same trading platform on which information may not always be 100% true. I am sure that each of us, car owners, knows about the presence of the official website of the traffic police, visited it. So do I. The attitude towards the site is ambiguous: not always complete information is found, often very outdated, the reliability of the data is clearly not one hundred percent, but, nevertheless, most of it is true. On the Autobot, the quality of information and "veracity" is higher. In general, I will evaluate the work of these resources positively, as the primary sources of information, you can safely use successful transactions for everyone!
Anton
I recently had a case, I was driving on an asphalt road. The road was secondary, from one village to another. On such roads, sometimes there are places with closed, sharp turns. To my misfortune, I met exactly the same, and the left and right sides of the road are in solid trees, it is impossible to see if there is a car around the corner. Despite the fact that I started the turn very slowly, a truck, ZIL-131, drove right into me at high speed because of the bushes. Wrinkled the left wing, the wheel could not rotate very much. I ran to the cab of the truck that hit me, and there was a drunk driver. When he realized that he had done something bad, he suddenly started the car and left without getting to know each other. It’s good that I didn’t lose my head, read and memorized his state number, immediately wrote it down. I searched for a driver on the traffic police website, I knew the make of the car, the administrative district of registration, too, the state number was recorded. It did not immediately turn out to be found, but, nevertheless, I found that the car belongs to the Rassvet closed joint-stock company. I already found the name of the driver when I arrived at this agricultural enterprise. Since the car was an enterprise, I did not personally disassemble it with the driver, I went to the head of the household. He did not argue, having previously dealt with the driver, he decided to compensate for the damage caused. I was lucky, the traffic police website helped.
Elena
I would like to add the site auto ru to the sources. I recently watched a video and really enjoyed it. There, a person bought an expensive foreign car, allegedly without accidents and with low mileage, but there is such a chip on Automotive News - you can find out the history of the ads of this car by the VIN code. Here the guy looked at the story, it turns out this machine sold a month ago in a deplorable state and with a mileage twice as high. Naturally, the seller immediately evaporated. More such resources. It is also a pity that there is no resource for tracking cars on “doubles”. Now this is very relevant.
Nicholas
It really works. My brother bought Solaris last year. So many offers were screened at the very beginning, having a photo of the number. If the owner closes the number and does not say the VIN number of the car, this is immediately alarming. Sometimes in the ad it was written not a bit, not beautiful, and after checking it turned out that the car had 2 accidents. Moreover, there is information when there was an accident and in what part of the car the blow fell.
Vladimir
Well, it's much easier now. Google Play, like Apple Store, has a bunch of applications that allow you to track everything that happened to the car.
I will not write the names, but I myself always choose the one with the highest rating. The fee is completely insignificant and spending a conditional 100 rubles to check the car is better than giving a million and then regretting it.
Sergei
It is necessary to punch through the VIN on the traffic police website, as it turns out, with a tambourine. A friend took the car, they punched it on the site - everything is clean. I came to my area to register - they say a ban on registration actions. How so? And here, you need to score everything possible options numbers: replace a space with an underscore, dot, dash, etc. That is, in the system, your number may be scored in a completely different way than in the PTS. Therefore, scoring exactly as in the TCP or registration certificate, you run the risk of simply not being recognized by the system. She gives out - everything is OK. In general, if there is a possibility of some kind of variation with external similarity, try all the options.
Boris
Somehow they talk quite flatly in the video, why they close the numbers in the announcements! Of course, here they are in the parking lot - take pictures, write them down. Only the names of the owners and phone numbers are missing. And here is a freebie for scammers - both the car number and the phone number and the name of the owner. At least pretend to be a bailiff, even a traffic cop, even if you bought a car. Cunning people are cunning for inventions. Therefore, it makes sense to hide the number. If you are really interested in the car - come, look, break through all the numbers on the spot. A real buyer will do just that. But the swindler does not ride and shine with his hands, he does not earn money by this. So not always in order to hide the truth, the numbers in the photo are closed. But also as a precaution against scammers.
Vyacheslav
When buying a car, I myself checked the wines through the traffic police. Everything is clean, but the car is frankly broken.
Ilya
Of course, you need to break through, but often many pay the traffic police to clean up such information.
Michael
Exists free services, allowing you to break through a lot of information about a car by its number. I myself tried to request a report on my old foreign car and on the cars of friends, I learned a lot of interesting things, especially with regards to participation in an accident))
Anatoly
In the VIN announcement, they never scored and never will, and without a code, you won’t get complete information on used ones.
Irina
I punched through a paid site both by number and by fault. In the end, they canceled the purchase. 200 rubles saved my nerves and money
Oleg
I think that the traffic police website has some kind of special access for employees, because my acquaintances from the traffic police for a small fee undertake to check cars by VIN very effectively.
Ilya
On the one hand, I would not want information about me, my car, its state and identification numbers shone on the internet. Having a photo with Mrs. simply through the same social networks, you can find out the data of the owner and his place of residence and everything, right down to his mistresses. On the other hand, when buying a car, a person really risks a lot of money and it would be quite logical for the traffic police not only to register the car, but also to first help the new owner to protect themselves from risks. Ways and methods for this could be found, but who in our state and when cared about a simple citizen?
Artyom
But it is very convenient, now it is not a problem to get information about any car. The main thing is to have at hand the Internet and the VIN code of the vehicle being checked. The difficulty is that, as a rule, the VIN is not reported in the ads, so before punching the machine, you need to contact or meet with the owner. And this is not always convenient. It will not be possible to obtain information on the official website of the traffic police by license plate, but by the VIN code it is possible and there will be a result. But on the site avtobot.net (information is paid), sometimes you have to wait a day, but the result is worth it. And you will already know almost everything about the car.
Michael
If you take a used car, then it’s better to do it in salons, where you can at least protect yourself a little.
Alexander
It is high time to get used to the fact that all free services are imperfect. If you want quality service, be prepared to pay.
Alexander P.
Of course, it is interesting to know the history of the car, but not many of the inhabitants will be able to correctly interpret these facts and draw the right conclusions. I see the only plus in this whole undertaking - to find out all sorts of encumbrances, either banking or other other credit. Ultimately, we do not buy history, but specific hardware that is in one state or another. It is much more important here not the number of owners and the number of accidents, but the presence of a good car mechanic who will give an overall assessment of the car, on the basis of which we can make a decision to buy or not to buy. Probably it has the right to life.
