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Car modification means removing or installing additional parts of the car to improve its performance. Additional elements such as gas equipment, lamps in headlights, fire bars, sawed-off springs or the installation of cargo vans require mandatory registration. Let's take a closer look at how to formalize the conversion of a car, what documents need to be collected and what threatens if you ignore the requirements of the law.
Permission to re-equip a car
Documents for re-equipment, procedures and interaction with government agencies can confuse anyone. Before taking on this difficult task, you must study a bunch of regulations, understand the subtleties and nuances and find enough free time for this.
First, you must obtain a preliminary technical examination of the vehicle design. Take the car to an accredited testing laboratory and wait for the expert’s opinion. The laboratory must be in the Unified Register of Certification Bodies and Testing Laboratories of the Customs Union.
If you decide to entrust everything to us, send documents and photographs of the car to the center in electronic form. We will receive the conversion report within a few hours and send it by mail or courier service.
Further procedure
If the traffic police approved your plan and issued a positive resolution, you can return to the service station to carry out previously agreed upon work. After this, you can convert a minibus, truck or car without any worries. In this case, the workshop in which all the work took place must, upon completion of the technical event, issue a document confirming the quality of the operations performed.
The owner of the car must undergo a technical inspection in order to provide data on the conversion to the EAISTO STSI - this is a special government service. But that's not all. The documents and photographs of the vehicle provided to the service station and the traffic police must be sent to the testing center by e-mail to assess the quality and safety of the changes made to the design. However, this was the case until 2021, and starting in February 2021, a slightly different procedure for vehicle conversion will apply.
According to the new rules, car owners should obtain from the traffic police the necessary document allowing the conversion of the car, as well as a special certificate of compliance with safety requirements. To obtain a certificate, you need to submit an application and have in hand a preliminary technical examination report from the laboratory. Next, the motorist will have to again visit the nearest traffic police department in his car for inspection, provide a receipt for payment of the state fee, as well as a package of documents - a statement, a protocol stating that a safety check of the structure was carried out. If you install gas equipment, you will need a declaration from the manufacturer of the work.
Necessary documents before starting the vehicle conversion procedure
— Application for preliminary technical examination of the vehicle design;
— A copy of the vehicle passport (PTS) – both sides;
— A copy of the vehicle registration certificate (COR) – both sides;
— Passport of the vehicle owner (first page + registration), for legal entities. persons require statutory documents;
— Power of attorney, in case of application by a proxy;
— Photos of the vehicle before changes were made to the design: general view with state number. registration, VIN identification number; vehicle manufacturer's plate.
After receiving a positive conclusion, the car must be taken to the traffic police department at the place of registration. There they will issue permission to re-equip the car. You need to take with you:
- application on a special form;
— a document confirming the identity of the owner of the car, or a power of attorney;
— PTS, SOR;
- expert opinion.
The employee will decide whether it is possible to make changes to the design of the vehicle. After receiving permission, you can safely begin the remodeling.
You can read more about registering conversions here.
Procedure for obtaining documents
A motorist who decides to perform minimal tuning that is not declared by the car manufacturer as factory, without obtaining permission when leaving the garage and stopping by a traffic police inspector, will receive a fine of 500 rubles based on Part 1 of Art. 12.5 Code of Administrative Offences. Therefore, the question of how to convert a car has recently become especially popular. The service of helping to register car conversions has become even more relevant, since literally every year the rules become more severe. But the procedure for obtaining a package of necessary documents cannot be called complicated. First of all, the motorist needs to consult with specialists at a service station and draw up a list of works and modifications.
According to current regulations, re-equipment includes:
- moving the steering wheel from right to left or vice versa;
- installation of another engine;
- dismantling or installation of additional seats;
- installation of gas cylinder equipment (GBO);
- installation of wheels of larger radius;
- any other changes affecting the height, weight of the vehicle.
After approval by the service station, a list of all work should be sent in electronic form to one of the accredited testing centers. Then, within just a few hours, the center’s specialists assess the possibility of installing additional equipment in accordance with the current law. Based on the results of the technical examination, a document is created that indicates which works are acceptable and which are not. The final stage, after which it will become clear whether the car can be converted or not, will be a trip to any traffic police department. There, the driver provides a plan for making changes to the vehicle design. It is considered for 2-3 days, after which they either give permission or impose a ban on re-equipment. A similar procedure should be followed if you are the owner of a car of any category - passenger cars, trucks, minibuses or special equipment.
Installation, diagnostic card and examination protocol
Such services are possible in special services with appropriate certificates. Upon completion of the work, the service specialists must issue you a declaration of work completed, copies of certificates of conformity for the parts used, and a certificate with a decoding of the service code.
If HBO is installed, forms 2a and 2b are additionally issued. Be sure to note that the gas equipment has a service life of 2 years. You should always take your passport with a mark on the inspection of gas equipment with you.
Next, you show the updated car at a technical inspection point (or at the same service station) for inspection and receive a diagnostic card. It is also necessary to draw up a technical examination protocol after making changes to the design of a technical device. This is possible in the same testing laboratory.
Specialists will also help with this. To do this, you need copies of all the above-mentioned documents and photos of the car without exception. Take photos so that you can clearly see the general appearance of the car, VIN, engine compartment before and after, and plates. If you have already received an expert opinion at the center, then copies of the PTS, SOP and the report itself are not needed.
Certificate of Compliance – final stage
What kind of refurbishment can there be?
Official tuning is changes made to the design of the car. Most often, the following procedures are meant: removal of components, factory parts, replacement of frames (body) or changing the paint color, moving the steering control unit, changing the location of the fuel tank, the number of seats for passengers, changing braking structures and switching to a different fuel, etc. d.
All these changes and more require the attention of traffic police officers. Not all changes need to be registered; some need to be notified to special agencies. To save your time and nerves, the owner can contact the employees of our company, who will take care of the process of registration and re-equipment of the car.
Registration of car re-equipment
Now you can receive a certificate of compliance of a vehicle with changes made to its design with safety requirements. This is the last stage. Pay the state fee of 800 rubles and go to the traffic police with a receipt and a package of documents on the converted car. What do you need:
— copies of PTS, SOP, passport (+ original);
— conclusion and protocol of both examinations;
— diagnostic card;
— certificates of conformity certified by a notary, which were issued at the service center, and a declaration statement.
The specialist will review the documents, check for compliance with the requirements of Technical Regulation 018/2011, which regulates this area, and inspect the vehicle. If there are no questions, the officer will issue you with a registered certificate. Always carry the document with you and show it to inspection authorities if necessary. They will also issue a new vehicle registration certificate and make changes to the title.
In case of refusal, the reasons must be indicated.
It may seem simple, but in practice registering a car conversion yourself is not that easy. It is much easier to contact an accredited company that will do everything for you – quickly and efficiently.
The procedure for registering design changes in the traffic police
You can carry out the correct registration of the conversion of any car yourself, or you can order a service from a law office and not be afraid that some document will not be enough or it will not be drawn up according to the rules. In total, the car owner will have to go through 7 main stages.
- At the first stage, all necessary documents about the vehicle are collected to send them to the traffic police. With their help, this government organization will consider whether it is permissible to carry out the intended manipulations on your car.
- The second stage is a visit to the traffic police with a package of documents. Moreover, you should visit this government agency together with the car, so that employees can make sure that no changes have been made to the design of the car in advance.
- It is at the second stage that you will be allowed to make changes. Next in the list of stages of how to arrange the conversion of a car comes the most interesting thing - finding a car service that can provide all certificates and contracts upon request, as well as a completed application - declaration.
- The fourth stage is to undergo a vehicle inspection with all changes made and receive a diagnostic card. Maintenance should only be carried out by operators included in the register - OTO. If you undergo a technical inspection somewhere else, then the traffic police simply will not accept such a document and you will have to go through the procedure again. And these are time and financial costs.
- The fifth stage is receiving a protocol stating that the car has undergone re-equipment and technical inspection. You can order it from a specialized law office. Please be aware that you may be required to take photographs of your vehicle before and after the modification process.
- The sixth stage is the second visit to the traffic police with a protocol of changes and a car. This is an important step in the question of how to legalize the conversion of your car. We must remember that it will not be possible to obtain a document confirming the compliance of a vehicle with changes made to its design with safety requirements in one day. The procedure takes from 1 week to a month.
- And finally, at the last stage - obtaining a mark in the PTS. But the procedure is only possible with a valid MTPL policy.
How much does it cost to re-equip your car? It all depends on whether you collect the necessary documents yourself or entrust this to a law firm. In the second case, there will be less fuss and headaches and the cost of the procedure is estimated at 12–15 thousand rubles. If you collect all the documents yourself and visit the necessary authorities, you will spend more time, but will significantly reduce costs. In this case, you can keep within 5 – 8 thousand rubles.
Cost of refurbishment
We issue a conclusion, test report and diagnostic card for only 7,000 rubles. We cooperate with certified service centers that carry out re-equipment and accredited laboratories that conduct testing. We can also help with the registration of an already converted car. It is practically impossible to make changes on your own.
Rest assured that all our processes are streamlined, so we guarantee the speed and quality of the work performed. You can receive documents within 2 days, but there have also been cases when they were completed in 1 day.
What is a design change?
Changing the design of a truck is the installation of elements on a vehicle that are not provided by the manufacturer and affect the overall safety of operation of the vehicle. Also, re-equipment includes the exclusion from the design of the vehicle of elements provided there by the manufacturer, if such production affects the overall safety of operation of the vehicle.
Since extended sides are not provided by the manufacturer and it is obvious that they affect the safety of using the vehicle, their installation will be considered a change in the design of the truck. At the same time, paragraph 7.18 of the appendix to the traffic rules on the list of conditions under which the operation of vehicles is prohibited, it was decided that any change in the design of a vehicle that is not properly registered with the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate leads to an automatic ban on the operation of the vehicle until the specified changes are eliminated or until they registration.
How does registration work?
Registration of the conversion of a truck is carried out in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 5 of the technical regulations of the Customs Union. Thus, paragraphs 75-80 state that before converting his vehicle, the driver must undergo an examination confirming the possibility of such conversion. Moreover, after making changes to the design, it will be necessary to undergo another examination confirming that the re-equipment did not reduce the level of safety of vehicle operation. Thus, the procedure for converting trucks is as follows:
- Find a testing laboratory where the possibility of converting a truck can be checked. For example, in Moscow such laboratories are located at MADI.
- Write a statement to the traffic police technical supervision based on the conclusion from this laboratory, indicating what specific changes will be made. At the same stage, you need to take photographs of your car and have the photographs certified here, at the traffic police. It is necessary to photograph those places of the car where the conversion will take place. You also need to present the car for inspection.
- Find a certified center that will perform the specified type of work. Upon completion, the service will also have to provide documents for the installed equipment, an acceptance certificate for the work performed, as well as an application-declaration, in the form established by letter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia No. 13 of 2015. It is also necessary to photograph the resulting result for further submission of the photo to the traffic police.
- Return to the testing laboratory and undergo another examination. This time, regarding the technical safety of the converted vehicle.
- Pass a technical inspection at any suitable diagnostic station.
- Return to the same technical supervision department where the application for conversion of the truck was written. In this case, traffic police officers must submit all the above documents and photographs. In addition, you must provide the car itself for inspection. If everything is in order, the traffic police technical supervision will issue a SKTS certificate (compliance with the design of the vehicle), with which you can go to the MREO.
Since the law does not provide for a different procedure, anyone who wants to convert their truck should be guided by the recommendations given. This also applies to building up the sides. But when writing an application to the technical supervision department of the traffic police, you can clarify that you are planning to independently re-equip the car. If this possibility is confirmed by the initial examination for the possibility of conversion, the traffic police will allow independent changes to the design. In this case, paragraph 3 can be excluded, and instead, you can independently re-equip the car and fill out a declaration application
