How can I find out which cars are registered to me?

What does a car license plate mean?

The number assigned to each car is not a simple combination of numbers . It contains basic information about the conditions for registering vehicles and regarding their owners. Made on a metal plate in the form of numbers on a white background, license plates have a specific order of characters.

In emergencies, unexpected situations or purchase or sale transactions, this recorded information becomes useful or necessary.

So the state license plates of cars are contained in a single database with all the data inherent to them.

Each car has an individual sign. Without this, it simply cannot be operated. In emergency situations or when transferring ownership, the traffic police database allows you to find car owners in the shortest possible time . In addition to this legitimate source of reliable data, there are a number of others that should be treated with caution.

Through State Services

Another way to find out whether the sold car is registered in your name is to visit your personal account on the State Services portal. This service allows you to obtain information about how many and what vehicles are registered in your name. But to request information you need to have a verified account in the system. And this is not a simple registration, but a registration with identity confirmation.

If you have access to your personal account, then you can check the availability of registered cars in the section “Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation” and then “Registration of vehicles and trailers for them.” By filling out the proposed form, you will receive the result in the form of information about the ownership of the vehicle.

In what cases is it necessary to obtain information?

Information about car owners by state number is legally provided in a number of specific cases.

It's easy to get:

first name, last name;
phone number for contact;
passport details.

Is it possible to obtain the release of information under any circumstances? This is confidential information that is not subject to disclosure unless permitted by law. Valid reasons are required to verify information.

For example, only the license plate of his car is known about the offender. It doesn't have to be related to an accident. It is simply necessary to search for him, but there is no other information.

Another case is when the culprit fled during a traffic accident .
Then you don’t need to worry about the information, because the traffic police inspector will determine it. If a citizen applies to the authorized body to search for the driver, his motive will be considered insignificant and he will be refused. However, there are other ways.

How to find out the owner of a car by license plate number for free

The legal way to establish the name of the car owner is to contact the State Road Safety Inspectorate (STSI). But there must be good reasons for this. Namely: the owner of the car committed an offense described in the articles of the administrative (Administrative Code) or criminal (Criminal Code) codes of the Russian Federation.

Eg:

he fled the scene of an accident (traffic accident);
his car is left on the lawn or other place where he should not park;
in other cases where there are clear violations of law or public order.

The traffic police officer must provide the applicant with a form for writing an application - a request to determine the owner of the car by number.

The person on whose initiative the information is issued provides the following information about himself.

Your passport details.
The reason why he is looking for the owner of the vehicle.
Make, model and number of the car, as well as other details of its description.

The traffic police will contact the requester a few days later with the results.

Checking vehicle registration in the traffic police

The law requires that vehicles be registered with the State Traffic Inspectorate. Registration is carried out for the purpose of

“... ensuring their state registration, supervision of compliance of the design, technical condition and equipment of vehicles with established safety requirements, detection of crimes and suppression of offenses related to the use of vehicles, implementation of the legislation of the Russian Federation.”

General provisions part 2 Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia dated November 24, 2008 N 1001 “On the procedure for registering vehicles”

However, car owners are required not only to register them, but also to change their registration data in a timely manner. For example, transit numbers expire or number units have been replaced. Also, a car may be deregistered due to its disposal or a change in the owner of the vehicle. The basis for deregistration may be a statement from the owner upon loss or if the vehicle was stolen. The law allows 10 days to change registration data. (General provisions part 4.5 N 1001). In this regard, many car enthusiasts are interested in how to check online whether a car is registered.

The registration history of the car with the traffic police is checked by VIN on the official website of this service. In order to implement this, you need to go to the main page of the site. Then select the “Services” section in the menu, then click the “Vehicle check” button in the drop-down menu

In the form that opens, enter the VIN code of the car you are interested in and click “Request verification.” Before doing this, make sure that you are in the service you need “Checking registration history with the traffic police”

A confirmation form will open in which you need to enter a five-digit code. Confirm the request, after which the car’s registration with the traffic police will be checked and the necessary information will be provided

Frequent re-registration indicates a rapid change of owners. This may indirectly indicate hidden defects in the vehicle. It is important to pay attention to this fact. It is also worth noting that checking the deregistration of a car with the traffic police is also of great importance, as it allows you to avoid problems with the purchase of a vehicle.

Other free ways to find out the owner of a car

It is possible to find the information you are looking for for free in another way. You need to use databases published via the Internet. There are many sites of this kind on the Internet.

There is a negative side - a significant risk of becoming a victim of scammers . They may also try to determine the personal information of the person searching. But still, the decision was made to search for the full name of the owner of the license plate; you need to use a search engine like Google. Having entered known information into its line (make, model, number), we select from the results authoritative resources that do not arouse suspicion. You can additionally request information in the form of reviews of such sites.

Using all free resources, you need to create a request to search for a car in the VKontakte social network group related to your city. You should ask people who know this license plate to respond, telling them the reason for their interest.

It may be possible to obtain information about who the car is registered to. And you can also really get practical advice on how to get through the number while carrying out further searches. In a word, organize a search for the owner of the car online.

How many ways are there to find the owner of a car?

Sometimes time is of the essence. That is, it is necessary to obtain information on vehicle license plates as quickly as possible.

Let's use the following series of paths.

Database of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (Russia).
Internet services with appropriate specialization.
Find out from friends and random people through questioning (word of mouth).
Use the services of detective agencies.

Searching through a private detective is reliable, but requires considerable costs (about 5 or 10 thousand rubles). In case of emergency, citizens pay similar amounts. received is reliable and provided quickly , since detectives have channels for obtaining information from the traffic police. It is advisable to find out about the owner of a vehicle from neighbors in cases where his car interferes with the passage, being inconveniently parked.

Although the most reliable is the traffic police database , the online service method is also very popular and does not make you wait long. Before you look for who drives or owns a car with a certain license plate, you need to know in advance how and where to get information.

Attention! The monetary and time costs of the search procedure can be significant. Sometimes the search takes a whole month. Even those who have connections in the traffic police receive information for 2 weeks.

Check car registration

For ease of perception of information and summing up, it is worth distinguishing once again - which checks can be carried out in online services, and which can only be carried out directly at the traffic police department. The registration history of a car by VIN code is checked for free on the official website of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate via the Internet. Moreover, for verification you can use not only the VIN, but also the body or chassis number of the vehicle. Similarly, you can get the answer to how to check whether a car is registered after sale. Since the report information shows the registration history, it is easy to track.

If you need to check the registration of a car and at the same time find out the owner’s last name, in this case you only need to contact the traffic police department. On the Internet, it is recommended to access purchased databases or find out information on third-party sites. However, it is not recommended to do this, since the databases may be out of date. Surely, reliable data will be provided to you only in the traffic police department itself.

A full report on the car for only 129 rubles.

You can save tens of thousands by not buying a car with defects!

About the procedure for obtaining information from the traffic police

People choose the method of contacting the traffic police because they trust the law enforcement agency most. Sometimes it is impossible to appear in person. In this case, use the Internet . Having arrived, you must name at least part of the number that you managed to remember.

Describe all known points about the driver and the car. Then the reason why the name of the sign owner or his search is needed is stated.

Having recognized the appeal as legitimate, the information is provided without delay . The entire procedure takes several minutes or hours. But the data is provided in full, including the document number - passport and address. After all, the responsibility of every motorist is vehicle registration, insurance, technical inspection, and medical examination. For all these needs, personal data is required. For this purpose, they are recorded in a database, which is common and subject to updating.

It happens that you cannot leave the scene of an accident (accident) and you have to call an inspector . We need to give him the details and give him information about the escaped culprit. Involving witnesses and collecting information about their contacts is also a necessary stage. Only after this can you go to the nearest traffic police department. The inspector can provide information about the owner of the license plate anywhere in the city, being interested in speeding up the proceedings.

Attention! If a citizen does not provide significant reasons for searching for the owner of the license plate, he risks losing a lot of time, since the request will not be satisfied.

Features of obtaining information online

The Internet provides considerable opportunities in terms of obtaining a wide variety of information. You can also try to find a person by car license plate . The network contains completely updatable databases, to which the user somehow gains access.

Having asked a question to a search engine, he sees many sites it produces containing information on the subject he is looking for. A number of services provide data about motorists, but for a fee.

For example, one of the resources requests about 300 rubles for detailed information, and another - about 150.

One of the services that is often used when searching for drivers by license plate number is avto-nomer.ru . It allows you to upload a photo of your license plate.

The servers have similar capabilities; to search, the following actions are performed.

Enter a phrase like: “Find car owner by license plate number” into the search bar.
Select the appropriate services from the provided sites. When entering one of them, they usually ask you to enter the license plate number of the car you are looking for in a field.
After a minute of waiting, the make and year of production of the car will be correctly identified and some unimportant information will be given. At the bottom there is a button: “Buy a report” or “Get full information”.
We go to the next page, where it is proposed to pay for the full report.
Wanting to receive reliable information and making sure that part of it (the correctly identified brand) has been confirmed, we select a form of payment. We fulfill other requirements (for example, provide an e-mail).
We pay for the service and receive the information we are looking for.

It is possible that there are similar services that work for free, but you need to choose the most reliable one. If strange requirements appear, it is better not to use the resource.

You can be sure of 100% correctness and completeness of data only when requested through the relevant authorities . But using such archives, it is easy to become a victim of fraud , giving your money to schemers.

Public databases are not responsible for timely updating of information or possible distortions thereof. Sometimes websites and individuals sell such information on disks, although the use of databases for commercial purposes is prohibited. This data may be outdated and scarce. Or what appears on the media is not at all what was purchased.

There is a real way!

It is paid, but very inexpensive - as of May 22, 2021, it costs only 100 rubles.

So, the owner of the car can be identified by the car number through the AVinfo service. It has a number of disadvantages:

this is not a free service, but you can find out the owner by car number for only 100 rubles,
today AVinfo is represented only by Telegram bot, so you will have to install the corresponding application if you do not have it,
The service does not allow you to determine the owner’s full name for all cars, but the majority of such cars do.

But if you have selfish goals to obtain information about the owner of the car by license plate, then we have good news - phone numbers appear in reports quite often if there is information about the owners with their personal data. But, even if there is no such data, knowing the last name, first name and patronymic, you can find a person on social networks. In addition, we will suggest another way to do this.

Instructions

1. So, first of all, you need to install the Telegram application on your mobile smartphone. You can find it:

in Appstore,
for Android,
for Windows Phone.

Next, set up the application itself and register your number by creating a profile in the program.

Below we will show screenshots from the web version of Telegram - it can only be installed if you have registered via a smartphone.

2. Next, to be able to identify the owner of the car number, we need to find the bot we need. You can do this by entering “Avinfo” in the search bar and selecting the found chat bot.

Please note, this bot has fake clones, so be careful! Check the real bot's username is @AvinfoBot.

3. Now in the field for entering a message, enter the desired number of the car whose owner you want to find:

As a result, you will be given standard information that is available for free. But it is still impossible to find out the owner of the car from it.

4. But in order to identify the owner of the vehicle, you will need to purchase a full report online, paying 100 rubles for it. To do this, click on the “Full AVinfo report” button.

And in the new menu that opens, select that you only need 1 report for this car number:

5. When you click on the link to purchase the report, the AVinfo website will open to you, where you can pay for it online. After payment, a menu will appear again in the telegram chat with the bot, like this:

Now all that remains is to click on the “Full Report” button again (from step 4 of the instructions, or once again enter the license plate number of the car you are looking for and click this button again).

Typically, generating a report takes less than 1-2 minutes, although the bot’s warning indicates a different time - 5-30 minutes.

6. Based on the result, you will receive a PDF file with the report. Open it in any convenient way. And, bingo, we see information about the owner of the car by number, which can be found in one of 2 blocks of information:

or in the history of registration actions (the date of the last operation will show who is the owner of the car with the specified number as of today),
or in information about the owners.

A couple more such reports are given as examples by the creators of the service themselves. For example, here is the first and here is the second. In the second example, you may find that there is no information about the owner of the car in the report.

Similar information can be found in AVinfo by VIN code. The instructions above are identical for this, except that instead of the registration plate of the car, you will need to enter the VIN number.

What other information can you find in the database?

The practice of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (or the State Traffic Inspectorate) indicates that most requests relate to finding out the personal data of the owner of the vehicle by license plate or part thereof . The databases of this body have the most complete and real-time information. Sometimes the car belongs to a legal entity. That is, to the enterprise. In this case, information may also be available, including the company address and the desired person. The data is often enough to contact those whose car was requested.

Information must be managed correctly . In particular, they should not be passed on to third parties. So, the most legal way to request and receive information is to write and submit a statement to law enforcement agencies.

In case of refusal (due to unimportant reasons), it is possible to find information:

in Internet;
by inquiry;
from private investigators.

These sources require caution because the paid form offered sometimes comes from scammers. Or the information is out of date. You may never find the data you need. On the other hand, the law protects citizens from possible harm when personal information is disclosed.

Searching for the owner of a vehicle, searching for the name or phone number of the car (that is, the driver) should not lead to a violation of his legal rights.