Date of issue of PTS: where can I look it up in the car’s passport?

What is PTS?

Every Russian citizen has a passport, and so does a car. When purchasing at a car dealership, a citizen receives a title.

It does not matter where the car was assembled - in Russia or in another country.

PTS is an A4 sheet, there are watermarks. The document has a series and number, as in the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.

What other information is contained in the PTS?

Make, model, type of vehicle;
Vin number;
Engine number;
Chassis data;
Engine information – volume, type, power;
Net weight and maximum permitted weight;
Body color;
Owner information and other data.

On the back there is a section with special marks. It records information about the owner, certificate number, re-registration and other data.

PTS is often called a technical passport and rightly so. The document contains all the necessary technical information about the car.

Purpose of the document

You can leave your PTS at home and not take it with you. The main documents that may be required are a driver's license, registration certificate and insurance. PTS is not included in the list of required documents. If the car was assembled independently, the information must be entered into the STS. The presence of a certificate indicates that the vehicle is registered according to the rules.

In case of purchase, the owner must present the original registration certificate. If a duplicate is shown, you need to carefully check all the numbers. If you lose your vehicle vehicle, you must obtain a new vehicle vehicle certificate. It is in this document that the PTS number and series will be entered. You need to verify the identity on the duplicate.

The PTS indicates the origin of the car and customs restrictions. If the car was taken from a car dealership, then you need to drive up to the State Traffic Inspectorate office. A citizen must independently obtain a registration certificate.

The PTS must indicate the characteristics of the car. The original document cannot be confused with others. It contains watermarks and additional protection. If there is any doubt about the authenticity, it is necessary to check the stamps, series, and number.

Sometimes you need to get a new sample document. This may happen due to:

Loss of a car passport;
Theft of technical passport;
When there is no free space. If there is no space in the new document for the new owner, then a new vehicle passport is issued.
If the pages are frayed or wet.

Obtaining a duplicate can be done at any traffic police department. To do this, you will need to prepare a package of documents. The new PTS will indicate the reason for issuing a duplicate.

Concept and features

Both documents are printed on government forms, protected from forgery by holograms and watermarks.

Passport

The vehicle passport contains information about the technical characteristics, model, color of your vehicle, as well as its owners (if you bought the car on the secondary market), dates of registration and deregistration at MREO offices. PTS forms are produced at Gosznak, they have their own number and are subject to strict reporting. The registration certificate is filled out at the MREO office at the place of registration for the following vehicles:

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Passenger cars;
trucks;
buses;
trailers of trucks and cars, registered separately from the “main” vehicle;
chassis included in the vehicle kit.

Fill out the blue registration form:

MREO employees based on documents provided by the owner;
customs inspectors, if the vehicle is imported from abroad;
Manufacturer's employees responsible for registration if you purchase a vehicle, chassis or trailer directly from the factory.

PTS is a very important document that proves your right to own a vehicle. Thanks to him:

The accounting of vehicles approved for operation is organized and controlled;
employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can monitor and prevent illegal actions;
Customs inspectors monitor the environmental friendliness of cars imported into our country.

Certificate

The registration certificate (CRC) also indicates the characteristics of the vehicle, as well as information about the owner entered into the document on the basis of the owner’s passport. Such duplication of information about the owner in the PTS and STS serves to create an up-to-date database about the owners and allows you to track the facts of the sale of the vehicle.

We will talk further about what is the difference between PTS and STS, and what is more important.

A specialist will tell you about checking PTS and STS documents before buying a car in the video below:

Where can I see when a document was issued?

The date of issue of the registration certificate is set at the time the vehicle is registered. The indicator indicates that the vehicle is being operated in a legal manner.

The date of issue of the PTS is required when applying for compulsory motor liability insurance. Insurance companies require an issue date for the document. Information will also be required when purchasing a car.

When buying a vehicle from a former owner, you need to check the documents and make sure that the car is not involved in crime. The date of issue of the registration certificate must be later than the release date of the car. The big difference should be alarming. The car is not in demand for any reason.

On the first page of the PTS, the date and issue of the document and department are recorded. You need to find column 25 that contains this information. When applying for MTPL insurance, information will be required.

You can find out the date of issue of your passport by contacting the traffic police. To do this, you need to come with a passport, STS and a sales contract.

Find out the issuance date online

You can find out the date of issue by using the original. State Traffic Inspectorate employees can check the vehicle title in the database and find this information.

If the document is lost, you need to contact the department and get a duplicate. You cannot sell a car without a registration certificate.

Information about the document can be obtained through the official website. The system is being improved, new functions are being included, and certificates are being fully verified.

What can you find out with an online service?

Information about the car;
Information about previous owners;
No car wanted;
Are there any restrictions in the vehicle?

To check, you will need the VIN number, body number and chassis number. If there is no PTS, the number can be obtained by viewing it on the car itself and in the STS.

Find out by series and passport number

Many people are interested in where the date of issue of the PTS is written. The document itself consists of 25 columns. The required information is in the last column - 25 . If you can’t find it, you need to contact the State Traffic Inspectorate.

The series and number of the registration certificate is located at the top of the PTS. It is highlighted in red font. The first 2 numbers and 2 letters are the series, the next 6 are the PTS number.

VIN code

The VIN code may be required when selling a vehicle. Where can the VIN code be located?

On the driver's door pillar;
Under the hood;
Bottom of the windshield;
Under the floor trim on the driver's side.

The VIN code is located differently in different cars. Data can be obtained from the manufacturer.

Deciphering the VIN code is quite difficult. Requires a data table to figure out the symbols. Vin is three parts. The first 3 characters are information about the manufacturer and the country of manufacture of the vehicle. Symbols 4 to 8 – model information, body type, equipment level.

The ninth symbol is a control sign that indicates the authenticity of the wines. The next two characters are information about the year of manufacture of the car and the manufacturer. The last six characters are the series and vehicle number. Many online services can decrypt your VIN code for free. You don’t have to waste time on decoding and use the application.

How to find VIN code online?

Go to the traffic police website.
Go to vehicle inspection.
Enter the code and request verification.
If an error occurs, you need to try again.
The result will be registration data.

The information is confidential. It can only be accessed by owners.

How to decrypt data?

VIN code is a unique car code. It consists of seventeen characters. The code contains information about the characteristics and manufacturer. The VIN code is printed on the body, chassis and nameplates.

Where is the date of issue of the PTS indicated?

Forms for vehicle passports are printed at the Goznak enterprise. They have many degrees of protection. Finding where the date of issue of the passport is indicated is easy. You just need to study its contents. The first page of the PTS contains the following information:

VIN number matching the one indicated on the vehicle itself;
car make and model;
letter designation of the category;
Engine number, its power in horsepower and kilowatts, type;
environmental classification of the machine;
maximum load weight;
vehicle weight (in kg) without load;
owner information;
date, month, year of issue of the document and by whom it was issued;
name of the state from which the vehicle was imported into the Russian Federation.

On the same page you can find out about the date of issue of the PTS. The second page contains information about all car owners. This data is entered by a traffic police official when re-registering a vehicle. Information about the duplicate is also indicated there.

Expert opinion

Mironova Anna Sergeevna

Lawyer and lawyer for automobile law. Specializes in administrative and civil law, insurance.

The vehicle's passport is kept by the owner. Therefore, the surest way to find out when it was issued is to find the original and clarify it. Another traditional way to find out the date is to visit the traffic police department, carrying with you an identity card of a citizen of the Russian Federation, STS. It would not be amiss to provide the police officer with a car purchase and sale agreement.

How can I find out online

When applying for insurance for vehicles, you must provide PTS details. If you do not have it with you or it is lost, it is impossible to clarify the date, month and year of receipt online, since this is confidential information. But, if necessary, you can find out information about the car on the official website of the traffic police.

By passport number and series

If you have information about the PTS number and series, it is impossible to obtain information about the car from the official road inspection service. To do this, you must personally appear at the department with an identification document and make an official request. Knowing the registration number of the car, you can check the information about fines on the traffic police website.

For how long is a vehicle passport issued?

The validity period of the PTS has no time limit. If the owner changes, the registration certificate must indicate the corresponding entries, that is, the change in ownership.

If you cannot use the PTS, you need to get a new passport. The document contains a section “special notes”, where it states “issued to replace the PTS”. Indicates the series, number, date of issue of the registration certificate.

Information in the PTS indicates the main characteristics:

Brand;
Names;
Category;
Vehicle identification number;
Year of issue;
Engine power;
Color;
Body number.

If the owner changes, entries are made in the PTS, and the passport is given to the new owner. The State Traffic Inspectorate department makes changes in case of deregistration and registration.

How to find out the date of issue of STS

The information provided in the document allows you to easily and quickly get your car through the STS by searching for information on the Internet.

A certain part of the tools offered on the World Wide Web were created with the goal of making money on the attempts of an inexperienced user to check a car using the STS, but this data is not available during a free check on any of the sites.

Vehicle registration certificate, where to see the number

On the verification page that opens, you will be asked to enter the vehicle's VIN number. After entering the VIN, you can check the car using the STS by requesting the car registration history from the State Traffic Inspectorate.

Important: The initiator of the request will know the make and model of the vehicle, year of manufacture, engine size and power, color, body type and number.

On the same page (by scrolling down) you can check the car using the STS to determine whether the vehicle you are looking for was involved in traffic accidents and whether it is wanted.

Checking a car for being pledged On the already described “Vehicle Checking” page of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate website, you can also obtain information about whether the vehicle in question is pledged by using the link at the bottom of the page to the FNP service.

Vehicle registration certificate

A vehicle passport (PTS) and a vehicle registration certificate (VRC) are undoubtedly the main documents for a car. Each of these documents, which any car enthusiast should have, contains certain information and has a series and individual number.

This article will focus specifically on the vehicle registration certificate and its individual number.

Not every car enthusiast can understand all the numbers and numbers that are indicated in such documents, so if there is a need to find an individual STS number, problems sometimes arise.

Is it possible to check the vehicle registration number online using the traffic police database?

Attention

1 Where can you find the series and number of the vehicle registration certificate, what they look like 1.1 Why the series and number of the vehicle registration certificate coincide with the PTS data

2 What to do if the STS is lost?

3 What to do if the PTS is lost

4 If ALL documents are lost

5 What else might you need the STS series and number for?

Where can you find the series and number of the vehicle registration certificate, what they look like Car Registration Certificate The series and number are on the back of the STS (vehicle registration certificate) at the very top next to the hologram, which is found on all new-style STS. The series consists of four characters: 2 numbers - space - 2 letters.

For example, "11 AA". Next comes the certificate number, consisting of 6 digits. That is, in the end, we will be able to see the following entry: “11 AA 112233”.

Series and number of the vehicle registration certificate. how to restore and where to find them?

You should know when this information will be needed:

Checking the technical characteristics of the car;
Determining the history of the vehicle, as well as finding the past owners of the car;
Setting a certain validity period for existing documents;
Identification of fines that were not paid by the owner of the car for violating traffic rules;
Establishing the presence of arrears regarding the payment of transport tax, which may be attributed to the motorist;
Identification of offenses that are registered with the vehicle.

How to check PTS by number online? Is it possible to check using the traffic police database?

It is important to remember that the assistance of a knowledgeable and experienced lawyer in a situation of an emerging or impending conflict of interest will help make its resolution more effective and less costly for the client.

All methods of checking PTS for authenticity

Why do the series and number of the STS coincide with the PTS data? The series and number of the Passport of the vehicle and the vehicle and the Registration Certificate completely coincide. In addition, other specified technical data of the vehicle (VIN, vehicle make and model, body, engine number, etc.) are identical.

The passport contains all the data about the previous owners, dates of re-examination, purchase and sale, and previous numbers of state signs. Based on this information, you can trace the entire history of the car from the moment of its first sale in Russia to the present day.

This is important for traffic police officers to check whether a car has been stolen currently or in the past.

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What is the verification algorithm?

80 percent of buyers do not know how to protect themselves from scammers. First you need to check the car using the license plate number and VIN code. In the service you can view reliable data from the PTS. It includes:

Theft data;
History of registration actions;
Information about the search;
Real mileage;
Presence of arrests or restrictions;
Deposit and other information.

If the car has problems with the law, the former owner fled the scene of an accident, and did not pay fines, then the state number of the car will be listed in the State Traffic Inspectorate database. Before buying a car, you need to check it with official services.

The autocode penetrates the vehicle through more than twelve databases: bank registers, traffic police, EAISTO, FNP, RSA, Federal Tax Service and so on.

The verification process takes five minutes. You can use the Autocode service:

Indicate the state number, VIN.
Get car characteristics;
Pay the cost of the report;
Get the report.

A letter with a copy containing a detailed report is sent by email. Using it, you can study vehicle data and save it electronically.

As a result of the check you can see:

Do the data established in the PTS match the real data;
Is the document listed in the database of stolen forms;
PTS is original or duplicate.

What other information can be obtained from the State Traffic Inspectorate database?

Date of issue of the technical passport;
Availability of fines;
Number of owners;
Date of re-registration;
Participation of a car in an accident;
Finding a wanted vehicle;
No restrictions.

How to find out online

When clarifying where to look for the date of issue of PTS for MTPL, the easiest option is to use the original document.

The owner must always have it with him for inspection by law enforcement officers. Of course, you can get by with the STS, but it is better to present both documents.

If the PTS is lost or stolen, you must contact the traffic police and obtain a duplicate. It is impossible to sell a car without a passport, so you should take care of the safety of the document.

But what should you do if you don’t have your PTS with you, or it was lost recently, and you urgently need to take out insurance?

Information about PTS can be obtained online through the official website of the traffic police. The system is constantly being improved, new functions are added, allowing for complete verification of documents.

Thanks to the online service, you can find out:

information about the previous owners of the car;
information about the car itself;
whether the car is missing;
Are there any restrictions on the car?

It is planned to finalize the system and introduce a function for checking the presence of bank encumbrances on a vehicle. But for now this opportunity is missing.

To carry out the inspection, you will need the VIN, chassis or body number. In the absence of documents, this number can be obtained in two ways: look at the STS or on the car itself.

The second option is relevant when selling a vehicle. Since documents can be easily falsified, changing the VIN is quite problematic. And almost always traces of the influence of physical force remain.

The VIN code may be located:

under the hood - on the engine, side of the body, on the hood door;
at the bottom of the windshield;
on the driver's door pillar;
under the floor trim on the driver's side.

If you purchase a car second-hand, you should check that all numbers are identical.

It is worth considering that the location of the code is different in different cars. This information can be obtained from the manufacturer or via the Internet.

So, when the code is received, you can check the car. To do this, go to the official website of the traffic police and on the right side find “Vehicle check”

We select this item and immediately get to the vehicle check page.

Enter the code and verification code (captcha), click “Request verification” and get the result. If the system gives an error, then try again. Repeat until a table with the required information appears on the screen.

The result includes registration data available to everyone. This is basic information about the car and ownership periods.

It turns out that it is impossible to find out the date of issue of the PTS online? Yes, this option is not available remotely.

This information is confidential, so it is available only to the owners. And everyone can request verification. For example, an employer when hiring a new employee.

In the complete absence of a PTS, it will no longer be possible to apply for compulsory motor liability insurance. If you only have a passport number, you can contact those companies where it is not required to indicate the date of issue of the document.

However, it will be possible to receive compensation in the event of an accident only after presenting the vehicle title. Therefore, you should not delay in obtaining a duplicate in case of loss of the document.

There are no penalties for the absence of a vehicle registration certificate. The main thing is that the driver has his license and STS with him. But the PTS cannot be considered an unnecessary document - it performs an important function and every car owner should have it.

There are only two ways to find out the date of issue of the PTS. The first is to look at the document itself on the first page. The second is to contact the traffic police and make a request through the database. It is not possible to obtain passport information online.

And if the document is stolen or lost, you must immediately contact law enforcement agencies to obtain a duplicate.

Otherwise, the car owner will not be able to sell the car, exchange it and receive compensation from the insurance company in the event of an accident.

How to check a car by license plate number on the official website of the traffic police for free, the article says: checking a car by PTS on the traffic police website.

About the law on electronic PTS, see the page.

Find out what the fine is for untimely making changes to the PTS when changing your last name from this information.