Update June 26, 2016: A new online service for checking vehicle history (accidents, owner history, etc.) has launched on the traffic police website.
The official website of the State Road Safety Inspectorate (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) has launched another online service for checking a car to determine if there are any restrictions or prohibitions on the vehicle in accordance with current legislation that could have been imposed on the car by the State Traffic Inspectorate and are still in effect today.
This online traffic police service will help any interested person find out the history of a car on the territory of the Russian Federation in order to protect themselves from buying a problem car out of hand. In order to find out information about any car, you need to go to the official website of the traffic police in a special section of the online service. Next, enter in the special field. If you do not have information about the VIN number of the car, then you can enter the vehicle body number or chassis number, for which this online traffic police service will provide information in real time.
This service will be useful to all car market participants without exception, both professional car sellers and ordinary citizens buying cars second-hand. Let us recall that the introduction of , which abolished the removal and registration of a car when selling/purchasing it, increased the amount of deception and fraudulent crimes in the automotive sector.
Thus, during the period introduced since, the amount of deception of buyers in the used car market has doubled. The whole point is that from now on, when you buy a car, you, by signing a purchase and sale agreement with the owner, immediately become the new owner of the vehicle, and within 10 days you are required to report your transaction to the traffic police. This is where problems with your purchased car may become clear, which may be subject to all sorts of restrictions and prohibitions on registration actions, for one reason or another.
In order for each of us to protect ourselves before buying a car, anyone can now use the online service of the State Traffic Inspectorate to check a car by VIN number, which will provide all the necessary information for the car.
Also, earlier the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate launched an online service throughout Russia to check vehicles for unpaid fines for violating current traffic rules. This service has also become one of the most popular among Russian drivers. Thanks to this service, anyone on the traffic police website can find out by the vehicle number and registration certificate number the presence of unpaid traffic fines,
How to find out the history of a car by VIN number in the traffic police database?
To do this, go to this address: http://www.gibdd.ru/check/ to the official service of the State Traffic Inspectorate for checking information about a car by VIN number. In the VIN field, the vehicle is either the car body number or chassis number. In a special field, enter check numbers confirming that you are not a robot (protection against Dos-attacks and “robots”). After entering the data and confirming the entered information, you will receive online information from the central database of the State Traffic Inspectorate in real time. Those. the data will be fresh and reliable. , which is provided through the online service of the Traffic Police website, is updated every day.
How to protect yourself before buying a used car?
Attention! Before buying a car and before paying money for a vehicle, our online publication recommends using the online availability check system to find out whether the vehicle has any debts to the State Traffic Inspectorate. Official address for checking fines on the Internet: http://www.gibdd.ru/check/fines/
Remember that when buying a car second-hand (a used car), all unpaid fines will be recorded for this car until you notify the State Traffic Inspectorate of the fact of purchase and sale, providing the relevant documents to the Traffic Police.
What should you do if, after purchasing a used car, you receive a traffic fine that was committed by the previous owner of the car?
If you bought a car and for some reason did not use the traffic police online service for checking unpaid fines in advance, then you can make demands on the previous owner of the car in order to pay them.
If the previous owner of the vehicle, under various pretexts, refuses to pay his fines for violations committed before the purchase and sale transaction or in the first 10 days after signing the contract for the sale of the car, then you can pay these fines, and then in accordance with the current legislation in accordance with the Civil Code and Code of Civil Procedure of the Russian Federation, submit official recourse claims, through the judicial authorities, to the former owner of the vehicle.
What to do if the traffic police database and the online service for checking fines (on the traffic police website) list unpaid fines for traffic violations committed by the previous owner of the car, but he paid them on time?
Using the online service, you can check for unpaid offenses. If the former owner of the car paid the fines, but, nevertheless, the State Traffic Inspectorate database contains information about the presence of an unpaid fine, then through this service or through a special message form you can officially contact the traffic police authorities in order to delete information about the fine that was paid It is advisable to include copies of documents confirming payment with your application.
What can happen if the previous owner of the car has not paid the fines, and the new owner also does not intend to pay them?
In accordance with the current legislation in the Russian Federation, a fine for violating traffic rules comes to the place of permanent registration of the owner of the vehicle. Since by purchasing a car according to the new rules without registering with the traffic police, and informing the registration department of the traffic police about this within 10 days (mandatory requirement), you are the new owner of the car. Therefore, all unpaid items will be sent to your address.
If you do not resolve this issue, then at any time when checking documents by traffic police officers, you may be detained for failure to pay imposed penalties in accordance with the law, as a willful defaulter of traffic fines.