How to find out about the registration of a car by the new owner

Checking vehicle registration

1. How to check car registration?

A vehicle registration certificate (VRC) is a laminated card issued when a vehicle is registered. This is one of the documents that you must have with you when driving a vehicle.

Sample series and STS number: 12AA123456 or 1200123456

“>series and number of the vehicle registration certificate (VRC) and you can check whether the car is registered with the traffic police.

2. Why check if a car is registered?

If you sold your car, the service will help you check whether the new owner has registered it with the traffic police. He must do this within 10 days after the purchase, otherwise he will be fined from 1,500 to 2,000 rubles for an individual, 2,000 to 3,500 rubles for an official, or from 5,000 to 10,000 rubles for a legal entity.

3. What should I do if I receive fines after selling my car?

Most likely, the new owner did not register the car in his name. To stop registering a car, make an appointment with the traffic police on mos.ru. At your appointment you will need:

Statement ;
Passport or other identification document;
STS (if available);
PTS (if available);
State registration plates (if available);
If a representative goes to the traffic police instead of you, he will additionally need a notarized power of attorney.

You will not need a car at the traffic police appointment.

After this, send an application to the authority that issued the fine, and attach copies of documents on the sale of the car:

Contact MADI if the resolution number starts with 782 or 03560430;
Contact the AMPP if the resolution number begins with 780 or 03554310;
Contact the traffic police if the resolution number begins with 188.

How to check whether the new owner has registered the car?

You need to check whether the buyer has registered the car 10 days after the sale. This period is allotted for re-registration of the car. But sometimes new owners take their time and are in no hurry to contact the traffic police. The reasons are different:

the car is purchased for the purpose of changing license plates and using it for illegal purposes;
the buyer has difficulties with re-registration;
The car has not passed technical inspection, there are discrepancies between the numbers and the data in the documents.

This state of affairs is not beneficial to the seller, because the car continues to be registered with him. To ensure the successful completion of the transaction, you need to check the vehicle after the sale.

Why do you need to check the re-registration of a car after sale?

There are two reasons to check whether the new owner has registered the car:

To avoid paying property taxes. Until the car is re-registered, the seller will receive a receipt for payment.
In order not to be financially responsible for traffic violations recorded while another person was driving a car.

The tax service and the traffic police do not find out who actually uses the car. Receipts for payment are sent to the person who is listed as the owner. And after a few months, the seller may receive an unpleasant surprise in the form of a requirement to pay transport tax.

Verification methods

There are two ways to check the new owner of the car:

Contact the traffic police with your passport. When visiting, tell the inspector that you need to check whether the car is registered after the sale. The service is provided free of charge, there are no problems with its provision.
Make a request on the traffic police website. The service is free, but you cannot get complete information about the car.
View information on the State Services portal. Requires a lot of waiting time. The verification itself is not carried out, but you can submit an application for re-registration and receive an official response.
Buy a report from the AtoHistory service. The service is paid, but guarantees receipt of complete information about the car. The report is generated quickly and is available online.

Visit to the traffic police

You can check whether the car was registered after the sale during a personal visit to the traffic police department. You can contact any branch, regardless of your place of residence and vehicle registration. Have your passport with you, which will be used to make a request to the database to identify the owner of the vehicle.

The advantage of this verification method is the ability to immediately get an answer to your question. But before that you will have to wait your turn, spending a lot of time.

On the traffic police website

Check the car after sale on the traffic police website. To do this, go to the “Vehicle Check” item on the right side of the menu and enter the VIN, chassis or body number.

After checking the system, you will receive information about the length of ownership of the car. Pay attention to the latest dates - the latest changes should be approximately immediately after the transaction. The service does not provide owner data, so you only need to rely on dates.

Data in the service is updated frequently, but the system often freezes, generates errors and refuses to perform checks. The program has flaws, so not many people use this service.

Through State Services

It is impossible to check information about car registration on the State Services website. The portal does not provide such information. But you can apply for re-registration. How to register after sale:

Register and log in to the State Services website.
Go to the “Transport and Driving” section.
Select the item “Vehicle registration”.
Then “Registration when changing owner data.”
Submit an application for re-registration.

The new owner must apply. And if you want to make sure that the car will be re-registered, you can send documents through State Services.

Through the AutoHistory service

Our online service for checking the history of vehicles in the Russian Federation, “AutoHistory,” uses information from government and commercial sources. By making a request, you will receive a report on all data relating to the vehicle:

specifications;
registration actions;
restrictions;
being on bail;
participation in an accident;
fines;
customs history;
a valid MTPL policy;
use in taxi;
mileage, etc.

From the report you will find out whether the car has been re-registered to the new owner. Sometimes the reason for lack of registration is restrictions imposed by bailiffs. In this case, the buyer will not be able to become the official owner of the property.

Why is it worth buying a report through the AutoHistory service:

You don’t have to leave home, stand in lines or communicate with government officials. To request information, you only need a computer, phone or tablet with Internet access.
The report takes several minutes to generate, during which the system processes a huge amount of information.
The cost of the service is only 199 rubles.
In one document you will receive all the information about the vehicle.
The service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

How to check a car using our service:

On the main page, enter the car's license plate number, VIN code or body number.
Wait until the vehicle search in the system is completed.
Pay for the report in a convenient way.
Receive the report online and by email.

You can request verification through the mobile application. This allows you to receive a report in any place where there is no access to a computer.

What to do if the car continues to be registered with you

If the car is still registered with the traffic police in your name, then first contact the buyer. Sometimes re-registration is delayed for reasons beyond the control of the new owner. For example, a registration ban has been imposed on the car, the buyer is ill, he has a problem, etc. First try to solve the problem peacefully.

How to check if a car is deregistered?

The process of selling a car brings with it a lot of difficulties. One of the important factors is the re-registration of the car to the new owner. An unscrupulous buyer may not do this within a certain period of time and then you will have to pay transport tax for the already sold car. In addition, you will bear full responsibility for it, so, for example, if you get into an accident and flee the scene of the accident, the new owner, without having registration, will be able to avoid responsibility and shift it to you. In order to avoid such situations and protect yourself from other troubles, you should find out whether the car is deregistered with the traffic police.

Is it possible to check whether a car is deregistered?

The new owner is given 10 days to complete the necessary documents, after which all formalities must be completed. Checking the deregistration of a vehicle from the traffic police can be carried out in several ways:

At the traffic police department.

No later than 10 days after the sale, in order to verify the deregistration of the car, you need to write an application addressed to the head of the department to provide information about the status of the car you sold, attaching copies of all documents to the paper. The application is reviewed within 30 days, the procedure is completely free. If, after this period, the application to verify the deregistration of the sold vehicle has not been considered, you can file a lawsuit.

A situation may arise when the car is no longer registered, but the old owner continues to receive receipts asking him to pay transport tax. In this case, you need to contact the tax office, requesting information about the calculation of payments, thereby preventing the possible occurrence of similar situations in the future.

Through Internet services.

The Internet has become an integral part of our lives, and now young people and active Internet users are starting to get behind the wheel. Using Internet services, you can also check whether the car has been deregistered. The advantages of this method are convenience and simplicity. Using online services greatly simplifies the task: the driver does not need to go to the traffic police department and waste his time filling out paperwork. Verification of deregistration can be carried out through various sites, such as:

Check through the traffic police website

In order to check the fact that a vehicle has been deregistered, you can go to the official website of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate - https://gibdd.rf. To check you need to do the following:

In the top panel, find the “Services” tab and click on it.
In the menu that slides out at the top, select “Vehicle check”.
Enter the engine VIN number in the field provided. You can find it in the vehicle passport or registration certificate. If you are unable to find this number, enter the chassis or body information instead.
Confirm your request with the verification code shown in the picture.
In a minute, the test results will appear on the screen.

The site allows you to view data about the vehicle type, make and model, its year of manufacture, body and chassis numbers, engine size, power and even its color. Using the service, you can find out other registration actions related to the car: checking for participation in an accident, whether the car is wanted and whether there are restrictions.

Having mastered a simple algorithm of actions, you will save yourself time and save yourself from the need to go to the traffic police.

Also pay attention to the item “Periods of vehicle ownership”. This subsection displays all the periods during which the car was registered. Using this, you can see how many people owned a car over a certain period, and whether it currently has an owner. If you see the entry “... to date” in the last line, this means that someone is officially the owner of the car right now. In this case, the buyer should be careful and once again remind the seller of the need to deregister the vehicle being sold.

Checking for deregistration of a car through the State Services portal

If you use a power of attorney and are not able to control all the actions of the new owner, it will be convenient to turn to the State Services portal - a service designed to track and control the receipt and status of various documents, certificates and other papers related to the field of public services. To start checking, go to the official website of the portal: https://www.gosuslugi.ru. At the moment, the portal has disabled the possibility of verification; the function of directly carrying out the operation of re-registering a vehicle is available on the website. How to do it?

The first and mandatory step is registration and creation of a personal account. To do this, in the “login to State Services” section located on the right side of the page, click on the “register” button. In the open page, fill in the required information: last name, first name, mobile phone and email.
To start re-registering a car, go to the “Services” section located in the top menu, then select the “Authorities” subsection. In the menu that opens, select “Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.” Scroll down the new page and find the “Vehicle Registration” tab.
Next, in the pages that open one after another, select the category “Preparing documents for purchasing, leasing and changing data about the owner”, and then the item “Changing data about the owner of the vehicle”.
An application form will then open where you will need to enter the required data. Follow the instructions, if you fill it out correctly, a confirmation will open and, after some time, you will receive an answer. You can also print out this form and bring it to the traffic police department, where the re-registration procedure will continue.

The State Services portal is a useful tool not only for car owners. Many other tasks and questions can now be solved via the Internet without leaving home. In addition, this will significantly save your time and money: the portal constantly hosts various promotions, using which you can, for example, pay an order of magnitude less for car registration.

Checking via Autocode

Another option for checking the deregistration of a car after sale is to use the Autocode portal - https://avtocod.ru/. Having appeared quite recently, this convenient service has gained well-deserved popularity among car enthusiasts. The procedure here is practically no different from checking through the traffic police website:

To begin, on the main page, in the only field, enter the VIN number of the car or its registration number. For Japanese cars that do not have a VIN, you can enter the chassis or body number. All data can be found on the vehicle registration certificate.
In a few seconds, a page will load that will display in detail all the data about the car, including not only data on the title, but also data on possible accidents, the cost of repair work, mileage, deposit, cost of compulsory motor insurance, fines and much more.

Unlike other sites, Autocode is paid. For a full report you need to pay 583 rubles. You can often carry out a check cheaper - the service constantly offers various discounts and promotions. However, it cannot be said that the price is compensated by the huge amount of information about the machine, including all kinds of tips and recommendations for operation.

What to do if the car has not been re-registered?

The new owner is given 10 days to re-register the car. If this has not been done within the required period, you need to visit the traffic police department and write an application to terminate the registration in your name. The new owner will be put on the wanted list, the inspection will look for the car by license plates in order to complete the procedure and bring the unscrupulous buyer to justice.

It is prohibited to drive a deregistered vehicle. The new owner should remember that after the purchase, he should immediately take care of all the formalities: take out a compulsory motor liability insurance policy, correct all possible technical faults, carry out maintenance and, finally, register the car in his name. If you are caught breaking the law, the traffic police will immediately remove the registration number from your vehicle and confiscate the registration certificate. The procedure is carried out in accordance with paragraph 51 of Order No. 1001:

“Upon termination (cancellation) of registration, a specific registration action (several registration actions) and all subsequent registration actions are invalidated.”

In addition to the fine for late registration, the registration number of your car and STS will be disposed of. Thus, you will not be able to travel by car, and the license plates will be lost forever. To restore registration, you must submit a corresponding application to any traffic police authority, regardless of the place of registration, or online through the State Services portal. Upon expiration of the application period, you will be given the opportunity to obtain new plates and a new vehicle registration certificate.

Possible nuances

In order to avoid various problems when buying and selling a car, both the seller and the buyer need to be careful. Transactions often take place over a long period of time and are complicated by all sorts of prohibitions and restrictions on the part of the judiciary, the investigative department, customs authorities, social security authorities and the search department of the traffic police. These government departments may slow down the process, thus delaying the sale period and, accordingly, deregistration of the vehicle. To implement them, you will need to eliminate all problems. Seller and buyer should check vehicle registration restrictions.

It is also important to understand the entire verification mechanism. This will allow you to obtain the most detailed information about the car, evaluate its merits and find possible problems hidden by the seller. After all, when a car changes several owners in a year, this clearly says something. Understand the legal and technical issues before purchasing, do not make hasty decisions, think about everything and only then act.

How to find out if the buyer re-registered the car after the sale?

Car registration check

There is a need to find out whether the buyer and new owner of the car has re-registered it with the traffic police after the sale, since selling a car in 2019 is associated with certain risks. Two of these risks:

the seller may receive fines if the buyer does not re-register the car in his name,
The seller will be charged transport tax until the car is registered with the traffic police to another person.

These risks can and should be minimized and eliminated altogether. Therefore, it is important to know whether the new owner of the car has registered it in his name or not. And, if he did not do this, you will have to take certain simple steps to stop registering such a car.

How to find out whether the buyer has re-registered the car in the traffic police?

There are two main easy ways to find out. The first is to visit any MREO (registration office of the traffic police) with a passport in order to check who the car is registered to and further actions to terminate its registration. But there is one problem: the traffic police MREO may refuse such a check on legal grounds. Therefore, it is better to apply on the 11th day after the sale of the car specified in the sales contract, immediately in order to terminate the registration.

To contact the traffic police for these purposes, you only need your passport and a sales contract concluded for the sale of a car.

Find out the fact of re-registration of the car by the new owner through the traffic police website

Meanwhile, before going to the traffic police, there is an easier way to find out the fact that the vehicle has been re-registered to a new individual. You can do this for 2019 on the traffic police website by checking the registration history of the car. Based on the result of the check, it will not be possible to find out to whom the car is currently registered, but registration periods will be visible and, based on this, it will be easy to understand whether it was registered with the traffic police a few days ago or is still registered to you as the former owner .

Finding out the history of car re-registration is very simple: enter the VIN code, body number or chassis number of your former car in the field at the top and click on the “request verification” link, as shown in the figure below.

Based on the result of the check, you will see the history of registration of your car with the traffic police. If the registration history for the last period shows registration in your name, this means that the new owner of the car did not register it in his own name.

The figure below shows a car that was sold and has not yet been re-registered by the buyer with the traffic police after purchase. This is evidenced by the registration history of the car (highlighted in red), which indicates that the car was registered for the first and last time in 2015, and this was its initial registration.

What to do if the buyer does not re-register the car with the traffic police?

If the new owner has not registered the car with the traffic police MREO, and you receive fines that he catches, then the most reasonable thing to do is to stop registering the vehicle on the basis of its removal from ownership. For this you will need your passport and a sales contract. This can be done by law only on the 11th day after the sale specified in the contract.

A detailed procedure for deregistering a car with references to laws, including in cases where the purchase and sale agreement was lost, is described in the article about what to do if fines are received for a sold car.

How to check whether the new owner has registered the car

The current rules for using a car allow the former owner, after purchase by the new owner, not to have to deregister the vehicle. The owner changes automatically when the new owner registers with the traffic police. The traffic police has ten days to change the owner. But we recommend checking the car’s registration with the traffic police after the sale and here’s why...

Why is it important whether the car is deregistered with the traffic police?

After registration and completion of the purchase and sale transaction, the car is owned by the person who paid the money and received the vehicle at his disposal. However, it is worth distinguishing between ownership and the possibility of legal use of the car. The fact is that according to the rules, you can only drive a car registered with the traffic police. Accordingly, until the new owner re-registers the car in his name after the sale, it is reasonable to check for new fines and other nuances.

For government bodies, be it the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Tax Service, only the person recorded in the traffic police database as the owner of the car matters. Whoever the car is registered to pays fines, is responsible for all violations that occur with the car and pays transport tax. Therefore, it is important to check whether the car is registered or not after the sale.

Check the car for registration after the sale to avoid legal and financial problems.

The buyer should also hurry up with the registration of the vehicle. While the car is registered with the previous owner, it may be seized by judges, bailiffs and other collection authorities. Also, an embittered seller may, in retaliation, write off the car for recycling - restoring such a car is extremely difficult. How to check a car before buying, read the article “5 steps to buying and registering a car from your own hands”

Having found out why you shouldn’t delay deregistration, let’s look at how to check registration with the traffic police after selling a car.

How to find out if a car has been deregistered - the main methods

There are several options for determining whether a car is registered:

Personal visit to MREO;
Online via the Internet through various services.

According to the first option, you need to take a sales contract, a passport and visit the registration authority where the car is registered. Compose an application addressed to the head of the MREO department (check that it is filled out correctly) with a request to provide information about the availability of re-registration. This option will take up to 30 days - it's up to you whether to use it.

The second method allows you to check whether the car is registered without leaving your home online via the Internet and obtain sufficiently reliable information from the traffic police within 2-5 minutes. Among the online options for obtaining information, we highlight the following:

Public services;
Autocode and other applications;
Traffic police website

Information on State Services

In 2019, the public services service does not provide information on the re-registration of cars, so it will not be possible to check the registration of a vehicle in the traffic police. On the website you can fill out an application for removal and registration of the vehicle if necessary.

There are a number of services on the Internet that allow you to check a wide range of information about the history of a car. To obtain data and check the registration of a car with the traffic police after purchase by the new owner, we will turn to the Autocode Moscow service. Here you can check the re-registration of registration, the presence of fines, restrictions, bans and seizures on the car. The service provides information only on cars registered in Moscow and the Moscow region.

There is another service with more complete information for cars throughout the Russian Federation. Using the VIN code or registration plate, you can find out the operation and life history of the car. The service is paid, but some data can be obtained for free. Name of the information resource AutoCode. Here you can also find out whether the buyer re-registered the car or not.

The site has examples of providing information, you can read and understand whether you need to buy a paid package or a free one is enough.

Traffic police website

An effective resource for checking the registration, fines, accidents, prohibitions and restrictions on a vehicle. Sometimes the display of information is delayed for a couple of days, but today the State Traffic Inspectorate service is the main online assistant for checking whether the car is registered with the traffic police.

There will be no specific names on the site, but there will be information about the dates of re-registration and you can determine the number of registered owners of the car. Having seen the latest registration date, it will be clear that the car has been registered and you can calm down.

Keep in mind that information about registering a car with the traffic police will appear in the database after some time, with a delay of 2-4 days

For step-by-step instructions on checking a car on the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate website, see the article “I sold a car, but the new owner did not register it - your actions”

As soon as you find out whether the car is registered or not, you can proceed to further actions.

What to do after checking your vehicle's registration

Having found out that the registration has been completed by the owner, all that remains is to submit a declaration on the sale of the car and pay taxes for the period of ownership in the current year.

If the new owner has not registered the car, there are several options, but the main goal is to stop registering the car in his name. Available options:

Come to the MREO department and fill out an application to deregister the vehicle. Before going to the traffic police, check the owner’s passport and the contract for the sale of the car; without them, the procedure will not be possible.
Submit an application for deregistration on the State Services portal.

After the termination of registration of cars, STS and state. registration plates are put on the wanted list and the very first check by the state traffic inspectorate for registration of the car will reveal a violation. The license plates will be confiscated and disposed of, and from now on the car can only be moved using a tow truck - it is up to the buyer to decide whether such additional complications are necessary. Plus, you will have to pay additionally for the issuance of new license plates when registering the car.

Another danger is an angry seller. After checking whether the car has been deregistered, it turns out that the buyer has not yet formalized anything, some want to teach the new owner a lesson. To do this, write a statement about theft or disposal. After a car has been written off as scrap, it is extremely difficult to restore a car and this can only be done through the courts; there is little positive practice.