To most motorists, this 17-digit character set seems incomprehensible, even mysterious. However, you can find out almost everything about a car by the VIN code, because the VIN code contains almost all the information about it. This is a passport or a kind of DNA of any vehicle.
What is a VIN? What is it for?
This standardization system was adopted in the second half of the 20th century. It is regulated by the ISO 3779-1983 standard. The abbreviation VIN stands for Vehicle Identification Number.
Prior to its adoption, it was possible to identify a car by body and engine numbers. The scammers interrupted, cut them down, trying to "confuse the tracks", to prevent the traffic police from tracking the history of the car, to determine its real owner.
Initially, the VIN code consisted of 7 digits and was applied to the chassis. Now it contains 17 characters (numbers and Latin letters). It contains a lot of information. By the VIN code, you can find out almost everything about the car:
- identify the manufacturer and present owner;
- get acquainted with the history of operation;
- find out the technical characteristics;
- clarify the year of manufacture, car mileage, participation in an accident;
- check out the kit.
Deciphering the vin code of a car is in demand when buying a used vehicle, because unscrupulous sellers can hide the true state of things from the buyer, provide false data. But even if you buy a new car in a car dealership, by deciphering the VIN code of the car for free through Internet services, you can specify its year of manufacture, model, choose the type of engine oil, and get acquainted with other necessary information.
How to find out the VIN code?
There is no clearly fixed, standard location for the identification code. The manufacturer places it at his discretion. It is applied to integral parts of the body, chassis. This may be a small metal plate on the front door pillar, under the hood, in the luggage compartment, inside the dashboard. It can be applied under the windshield, on the inside of one of the wings of the car, and so on.
In order to find out the VIN code, just look at the documentation that came with the car:
- registration certificate;
- registration certificate;
- insurance policy.
If you are buying a used car, make sure the 17-digit number on the paperwork matches the one on the vehicle itself.
For almost any car made after 1980, you can check the wine code for free on specialized sites. But, a motorist can do the same work on his own, it is enough to know the rules for decoding information encrypted in a 17-character alphanumeric set.
The VIN code consists of three blocks.
- WMI - Manufacturer ID
These are the first three characters in which the geographical area (region - Asia, Europe, and so on), the manufacturing country, and the company are encrypted. The tables below show the decoding of WMI: the definition of the country and the manufacturer.
Deciphering the country in the VIN code
Some manufacturers have more than one WMI, while more than one manufacturer cannot be encrypted under the same character set. If a company for some reason has curtailed production and no longer manufactures cars, then after 30 years the identifier can be transferred to another company.
- VDS - vehicle characteristics
This block contains 6 characters. They allow you to find out the complete set of a car by the wine code, vehicle model, body type, main technical characteristics, other options:
- 4th symbol - body;
- 5th character - engine;
- 6 character - model;
- 7, 8 characters - information at the request of the manufacturer.
Positions not used by the manufacturer are filled with zeros. The ninth character is a checksum to verify the authenticity of the car's vin code. To do this, the letters included in the block are replaced in a certain way by numbers, and a calculation is performed using a special mathematical formula. The check character value can be represented as a digit (0 to 9) or a letter (X) value.
- VIS - distinctive features
The last eight characters indicate the features of this vehicle:
- 10 position - the year in which the production of this model was started, the value can be represented as a letter (from A - 1980 to Y - 200) or a number (from 1 - 2001 to 9 - 2009), with 2010 characters are repeated;
Note: if the model was put into production at the end of the year (September - December), then the manufacturer can indicate the next year in the wine code. - 11th position - information about the plant where the car was assembled;
- 12-17 positions - the serial number of the car assigned to it during intra-factory accounting.
In order for your decoding to be as accurate and complete as possible, after determining the country of the car manufacturer (by WMI), go to the manufacturer's website and check what information is encrypted in characters 4 - 11. This must be done, since many companies do not follow very strictly the provisions of the standard.
How to check the VIN of a car?
In order to be 100% sure that the car you are buying is not wanted or under bail, first of all check the authenticity of the existing identifier. Checking the vehicle's VIN code can be done visually. To do this, you need to carefully examine the symbols embossed on the details of the vehicle, paying attention to the same height, depth, width of their application. Then you need to compare their values \u200b\u200bwith those indicated in the TCP.
You can find out if the car has been stolen on the Internet. You can easily find many different resources, information bases containing information about stolen cars. Here you can break through the car and search for the wine code for free. In fact, you can even check the complete set of a car by the VIN code for free.
There are many services on the Internet that offer services for decoding the wine code of a car, online both for a fee and for free:
- adaperio.ru;
- autodna.ru
- vin.auto.ru
- vinid.ru;
- vinexpert.ru;
- check-machine.rf;
- check-car.rus;
- carkod.ru
Most often, to find out the history of a car by the VIN code, specify the configuration, engine model, car color and other parameters, it is enough to enter a 17-digit character set in a special field and start the check. Some resources require the introduction of additional settings (brand, year of manufacture). Please note that the information available on the network may not be entirely reliable, therefore, in order to obtain more accurate information, it is recommended to check the code wines on several sites.
1. Site gibdd.ru
Since 2014, the function of free checking the wine code has been available on the official website of the traffic police. It is available to all citizens of our country in any region. With it, you can:
- identify information about the search for a car;
- perform a fine check;
- learn about the presence of restrictions imposed on registration actions with the vehicle.
To receive the service, just click on the "Vehicle Check" button on the main page of the site.
On the next page, enter the VIN code of the car in the appropriate fields and click "Start verification".
Antirobot will ask you to enter security characters, after which it will display the results of the check. If you do not have a VIN code, then you can use the body number, chassis number to identify the vehicle.
The service allows you to check the car VIN-code, license plate, collecting data from various information databases, other sources: traffic police, banks, courts, customs, courts, and so on.
To start the function, you need to enter your VIN code or state number on the main page of the site and click on the "Check" button.
This service provides only a summary report for free. After making the payment (267 rubles), you will get access to more data:
- engine number, body;
- wheel formula;
- data on PTS and owners of the vehicle;
- mileage;
- participation in an accident and so on.
Work with other services is similar to those presented above.
Enter the VIN code in the appropriate field and click on the "Check" button
For more information, click "Decrypt".
Enter the VIN and click on the "Check VIN" button.
Only basic information will be provided to you free of charge.
For detailed information, you will need to pay a small amount. In this case, you will learn the most complete information about the vehicle, the history of its operation.
In any case, the verification is very convenient. It takes very little time, and the data available about the car is displayed directly on the monitor screen.
In order to " break the car through the bases"For its legal purity, before a motorist needed to have certain connections in the authorities, or a certain amount of funds, to pay for services to third-party organizations that helped to find out all the necessary information about the car for money. In our computerized and automated time, a car can be checked by the VIN number everyone, and absolutely free, just having access to the Internet.To do this, you need to go to the traffic police website using the link and make the appropriate checks:
Checking vehicle registration history
This service will be quite useful for those who buy a car with a duplicate title, where it is impossible to determine the number of former owners of the vehicle. And for the complacency of the future buyer, this information will be interesting.
So, after you have entered the VIN - number, click on the link to request a vehicle check, enter the captcha, and you will see information about the number of people who owned the vehicle, as well as the periods of their ownership.
For participation in an accident by VIN
You should not particularly count on the reliability of this check, since data on accidents with the vehicle being checked are taken into account only from 2015, while the fact of an accident must be registered by a traffic police officer and registered in the traffic police AIMS database. Thus, if the car flew into a tree, demolished the fender fence, crashed into another vehicle and disappeared, or agreed with another participant in the incident and broke up with him amicably, you will not receive information about this.
Here, everything is the same to check the car for participation in an accident, you will need the VIN number of the car, after entering it, click - request information. Enter captcha. And everything is before your eyes. As you can see, in the case under consideration, no accident facts were recorded.
To be wanted
For the future car owner, this information is quite important and relevant, because if the vehicle is wanted, it is not possible to register it with the State traffic inspectorate. As a rule, a car that fled the scene of an accident may be wanted. So, in order to break through a car for being wanted, you will still need only its VIN number, clicking the "request" link, entering captcha. After all these manipulations, the following picture will appear before you - if everything is in order with the vehicle:
We repeat that if the vehicle is wanted, it cannot be registered.
Check for restrictions
As you can see pierce the vehicle before buying just a must if you buy it from a dubious seller. After all, you can buy a car, but after that it turns out that you will not be able to register it and take ownership of it, since a number of restrictions can be imposed on the car. So, after entering the captcha, you should see the inscription "No restrictions found", but if you see something else, for example, as in the images below, you are out of luck, and very big, if you have already bought a vehicle.
To be on bail
Also, an important factor in collecting information about the vehicle will be checking for the presence of movable property in pledge. Of course, you can easily register such a vehicle with the traffic police. However, if the previous owner ceases to fulfill the pledge conditions, the vehicle may be seized as a pledge item. In order to protect yourself before concluding a sale and purchase transaction, it will not be superfluous to check the subject of the transaction for being in pledge. To do this, we go to the website of the Federal Notary Chamber and look for all the necessary information in the register of notifications on the pledge of movable property. Follow the link https://www.reestr-zalogov.ru/search/index
After that, switch to the tab "By information about the subject of collateral", enter the VIN number and look at the results of the issuance. If nothing is found in the search results - everything is fine, but if you see a picture like the one below, it is better to refuse to buy such a car.
After you have driven the car through all the databases, and they have not revealed any deviations, you can, with almost 100% certainty, buy, register it as a property and register it with the State Traffic Inspectorate.
Buying a car in the secondary market is very popular among motorists, especially if financial opportunities are limited. When you can not only save a lot, but also get a number of problems. For the buyer, checking the machine is an important procedure.
It is necessary to check the car not only for legal purity and its involvement in an accident, but also for the owners of the vehicle, since the technical condition of the goods directly depends on their number. It is also important to check whether the owner is the person who sells the goods. In this article, we will look at how to find out the owner of a car by VIN.
Features of searching for data about the owner of a car
You can determine the owner of the vehicle by registration numbers or using the VIN code. The most common option among motorists is to recognize the owner of the transport by license plates, however, it does not always provide complete and reliable information. The reason may be the presence of fake registration numbers on the car or the frequent change of license plates, which greatly complicates the search.
Experts recommend that before purchasing a car in the secondary market, check its owners and legal purity solely by the VIN code. The materials received are almost always 100% true, since the VIN is an individual number and does not change throughout the life of the car. To kill the VIN code of the car today is impossible.
Modern technologies make it possible to check almost everything by an individual code until the request is made. Involvement in an accident, the presence of bans and arrests, the number of owners and the periods of their possession of goods - this information can be easily found on the official websites of government agencies. However, the search for the personal data of the owner of the transport may be accompanied by certain difficulties in connection with the law on the protection of personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation.
Options for determining the owner of a car by VIN
There are several ways that allow you to get information about the owners of a car by its individual code.
You can find out the owner by the VIN code in the traffic police department. The official databases contain all the information about registered vehicles. The check is carried out directly by the employees of the State traffic inspectorate, however, one must take into account the fact that good reasons will be required to provide personal information about car owners. If there are no serious arguments for the search, then you will have to look for alternative solutions to the issue.
You can find out information about the owners of the car yourself, on the Internet. To do this, go to the official website and check the VIN code of the car. On the site, you need to select the “Vehicle Check” service in the menu and search for information. The service will provide verified information about the number of car owners, the periods of their ownership, however, the personal data of the owners will not be provided, in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation. Alternatively, you can try to purchase on the black market a disk with the official database of the traffic police, which contains information about the owners, including the registration card of the vehicle, which contains all the information necessary for the consumer. However, the option to search using pirated discs is not always an unreliable source, as the materials provided may be out of date.
A more reliable source of obtaining information about the seller using an individual vehicle code is the Autocode portal. On the Autocode website, you can find out about registration bans, the history of technical inspections and the names of owners by the VIN code or vehicle certificate number. The disadvantage of the site avtokod.mos.ru is that information in the database is available only for cars that are registered in Moscow and the region, and in order to search for materials, the user must register. The data on the site is constantly updated by government agencies, so the information received is always true.
And also for obtaining individual data, you can use paid sites. The cost of services is most often not very high, however, experts recommend checking cars using only trusted sources of information, which are government agencies.
Summing up
Before its acquisition - a mandatory procedure for the buyer. To carry out the verification, it is most reliable to use state sources of information and check the data by the VIN code of the car, which is a kind of identifier for the vehicle.
If it is the owner of the goods that causes suspicion, then it is necessary to use services that allow you to determine the owner of the car by the VIN to check it. In order to protect yourself as much as possible from fraud by the seller, it would be best to contact the traffic police department directly with him and check the transport, its owner on the spot, and also conclude a deal.
Autocode allows you to find out the history of the car before buying quickly and easily. You don't need to look up the VIN - just enter the vehicle's license plate number. You will receive a vehicle report based on information from the traffic police database and other official sources. The information obtained will help to avoid legal problems after the purchase of the vehicle.
What will the check by car number tell you
A full report is generated within 5 minutes. From it you will learn:
- PTS data;
- history of registration actions;
- mileage history;
- data on participation in an accident;
- calculations of repair insurance works;
- the presence of traffic police restrictions;
- information about theft;
- information about pledges;
- information about working in a taxi;
- disposal data;
- information about technical inspections, OSAGO and fines;
- history of sales ads and much more.
You can check a car by license plate number without leaving your home. The report will be generated online, and a link to the report will be sent to your email address.
Why is it important to check a car by license plate number
— Victim, did you recognize the person who stole your car?
“Your Honor, after his lawyer's speech, I doubt I had a car at all.
Evgeny Loginov, auto expert, project manager "My Expert - Yekaterinburg":
“A car is a technically complex product. How I love to tell my clients: "It's not like going to the store for bread." That is why even a new car with a mileage of 10 thousand km and only one owner needs to be checked carefully.
In our work, we often encounter the fact that sellers do not agree and sell cars after an accident, with corrected mileage, problematic engines and gearboxes. It could be worse. You can run into intermediaries in the sale, or, more simply, outbids. These comrades alter the steering wheels, re-tighten the interior, restore the vehicle after the most serious accidents, when the geometry of the cars is broken or the airbags work.
When buying a car with an "unclean" history, you not only risk getting an expensive repair of the engine, gearbox and other elements, but you simply risk your life! In the event of a repeated accident on such a car, the airbags are unlikely to work.
Another important aspect of buying a used car is the legal component. No matter how good the car is, if it has problems with documents, there are registration restrictions or it is stolen, then you will not register such a car. The most innocuous is the restriction in registration due to a fine that the former owner did not pay. It is much more serious if the VIN number is broken on the car, the frame number is not read or erased, the engine number is missing.
What happens if you do not break through the car before buying
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- Honey, my car broke down.
- Strongly?
- In half.
Real stories of victims:
Alexei:
“A year ago, my wife and I bought a used car. When buying, no errors were found. In addition, on the recommendation of the seller, we went to the nearest service, where we were assured that the car was in perfect order. How to check the car in other ways, we did not think. In general, they took their word for it and seriously pierced it, because when registering with the traffic police, it turned out that the car had been restored after a major accident. For proper operation, the car lacked many expensive parts. What can I say? I could only sell for parts.
Michael:
“A few years ago I bought a car from a private individual. Together we deregistered it and registered it in my name. A few months later, the police came to me and took away the TCP for examination of signatures, and then the car itself. It turned out that the first owner turned to the scammers to sell the car, after which he never saw them again. All this time the car was wanted, and I did not even know about it. The seller was never found. I did not have a receipt for the transfer of money, nor the real data of the seller. Left without everything, in short. Now I'm triple careful."
How to punch a car by license plate in 5 minutes
The algorithm of actions for checking through the service site is as simple as possible. Follow the points:
Through "Autocode" you can check any car by state number. To get a full report, you need to pay 349 rubles. Our database contains information about all cars registered in the Russian Federation. It is available to you 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. To punch a car by license plate, you do not need to go anywhere, look for VIN and other data. Verification is carried out in 3 steps!
How the service generates reports
Especially for you, we collect information from all sources available to us. They include both state (traffic police base, pledge of registers) and commercial structures, including insurance companies, banks, leasing companies. From a huge amount of data, we form a single, most informative report for each car. The report is generated online and is relevant at the time of its order.
Why is it better to check a car through Autocode
With Autocode, it is possible to check the car by license plate number online quickly and efficiently. The check allows you to trace the car through the base literally from the conveyor to the place of sale. The necessary information on cars is requested from Autocode not only by individuals, but also by specialized salons.
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Why choose the site "Autocode":
- the reliability and quality of reports verified by the traffic police database (we guarantee compensation for damage if the report turns out to be unreliable);
- the ability to check the car by registration number;
- test result after 5 minutes;
- applications for Iphone and Android for checking online;
- checking Japanese cars without a VIN code is a unique service opportunity;
- favorable price for professional car dealers - .
After checking the car according to the license plate, you will know exactly what the car is like. Based on these facts, you can fairly reduce the purchase price.
Autocode is a site for checking a car by license plate number, which allows you to find out the real data about the car right at the time of purchase and save yourself from an unwanted transaction.
Probably nowhere happens so many scandals and disappointments, which is observed in the field of sales of used cars. Statistics showed that a third of all Russians who bought a car that was already in use discover serious malfunctions within the first three weeks. This means you need to invest again. And then again, and again...
These statistics are actually quite cold-blooded, because it means that if you decide to buy a car from your hands, then with a probability of 30%, defects will be found in it after a few weeks. And no matter how friendly the seller is, no matter how many guarantees and promises he gives, it should be understood that you, the buyer, give real money and do it in exchange for “I promise that you will be satisfied”, somehow it is not reasonable.
Well, let's try to figure out what can be done and how to learn how to check the car in advance, not allowing yourself to be sold a pig in a poke.
The main one is checking the car according to the state. number, this procedure will allow you to find out the most important and necessary - whether the car is wanted. It is also important to check for fines, the presence of collateral and much more. Let's take a closer look at what's what.
Checking a car before buying
Don't want to be deceived? Then start checking the car, even at the stage when you are in search. Surprisingly, such a check is a very simple procedure, but few people still carry it out (apparently, simply out of ignorance). The procedure can be roughly divided into three simple steps:
1) find an ad with an interesting car - write it out to the state. room;
2) check the car;
3) observe the detailed history of the machine.
This procedure does not guarantee that the seller is honest, but it allows you to weed out fraud at an early stage. Indeed, if the information in the advertisement fundamentally contradicts the history of the car, which was determined by checking the car by the VIN code (it is the “VIN-code” that is the full number of the vehicle), then the seller is trying to deceive.
Let's talk a little more about the VIN code. This abbreviation is an abbreviation for "Vehicle Identification Number". In other words, this is the vehicle identification number. The code consists of 17 characters. So much information is encrypted in it that you can determine almost everything, from the manufacturer and characteristics of the car, to fines, repairs, etc. We will tell you more about where to find the VIN number below. However, even checking the car according to the state. number can give interesting results.
Often (and what's really there, let's face it - almost always) the seller hides the real mileage. But it’s one thing when, instead of the declared 120 thousand, the car rolled 150 thousand, and it’s quite another if you have a car with a lot of owners in front of you, which was actively used in a taxi (everyone understands that a taxi literally destroys cars) and which has already been in a dozen accidents .
That is why the meeting should begin with the verification of documents. If checking the car according to the state. number was successful and you still have nothing to complain about, then it's time to break it through the VIN code.
And now, it would seem, everything is fine: Mr. the number showed that everything is clean, the VIN code is similar, visually there are no complaints about the car, and with a small test drive, nothing knocks, does not flow, does not crumble ... Can I buy? No, it's still early. After checking everything you need, you need to visit the service station together with the sellers.
It should be remembered! Recently, cases have become more frequent when a benevolent seller himself personally offers to go to the service station. Moreover, he guarantees to do it at his own expense! An enthusiastic buyer happily arrives at the station, where delighted mechanics inform him that they have not seen a better car in their career. To celebrate, the buyer gives his money without even going into the details of the documents, state numbers and VIN code. Tip: never visit the service station that the seller has chosen, because his friends, brothers, son-in-law, and so on, most likely work there. Choose a car service on your own and insist on the most comprehensive diagnostics. Even if minor faults are found, then this is in your favor, because you can bargain near the car.
How to find the VIN code?
There is a car in front of you. To check the car by vin successfully, you will need to accurately determine its location. Note that not in all cars the VIN - code (aka body number) is in the same place.
To begin with, do not rush to open the hood, because, first of all, the VIN code should be looked for in the data sheet.
In addition to documents, the vehicle identification number can be found on special nameplates that are firmly fixed to the chassis. On some vehicles, the number can be found in the provided gap near the windshield, under the hood, on the driver's door pillar, and even under the passenger seat floor trim.
Almost all modern car manufacturers put the number on the top left of the instrument panel, which can be easily found through the windshield.
American car manufacturers often place the VIN elsewhere, such as at the junction of the windshield and hood. Codes are found in the car not only in a single copy, they are very often duplicated, for example, located on stickers near the driver's door. This is done in order to protect the car as reliably as possible from robberies and theft.
However, the most popular place to find a VIN code is the engine area and the partition between the engine and the car interior.
It is especially necessary to find the VIN code in several places, because when buying a car, you can protect yourself. That is why, in advance of the meeting, we advise you to study the online edition of the machine's operating manual and find out all the possible places where the VIN is located. Forging and falsifying documents or data in them is a fairly simple undertaking, however, fabricating nameplates and plates with a VIN code is not an easy task. If you find that the car has at least a couple of codes that do not match, this can only mean one thing - the car is most likely stolen and the owner (possibly the previous one) tried to kill the numbers from another car.
VIN looks like this:
Car manufacturers are very well aware of all the tricks of scammers, thieves and swindlers. That is why some of the VIN codes are located in a convenient place, and some, on the contrary, in very inconvenient places, in which it is extremely problematic to break or unfasten the nameplate. Swindlers, most often, change only “convenient” codes, believing that the buyer will not check them all.
Find out the VIN code
Despite the fact that all these procedures are relatively simple, we would like our reader to simplify life even more and provide the opportunity to check the car by VIN code without even getting up from the screen of a smartphone or computer. Yes, you do not need to personally look for the identification number of the body, checking the car by vin code is possible even if you have only a state number. One number allows you to find the second.
Check according to state. number does not provide for obtaining such serious information, which can be provided during verification, through the VIN. However, what to do if, in addition to the state. do you have any more information on the number?
Let's see how the state numbers fundamentally differ from the VIN. First of all, this is the place of receipt: if the VIN is assigned to the car at the factory and cannot be changed in any way, then the state. number is a dynamic concept. With each deregistration and registration, license plates may change. Moreover, the license plate also depends on the region in which the car was registered and on the country from which it was brought (for cars not cleared by customs). However, each number that employees assign is somehow tied to the number of the car body.
By contacting the traffic police, you can always find out the VIN by the car number. By the way, it is the traffic police officers who are able to provide you with the most complete information regarding the “past life” of your car. The information allows you to determine information about all the owners of the car, the participation of the car in an accident, the stay of the car as a pledge, as well as such important data as the fact that the car was wanted due to theft.
What to do with the VIN?
Every citizen who wants to check and find out the VIN by number can send an official request to the traffic police and get all the necessary data. Employees are willing to provide data only on the basis of good reasons. Buying a car and the desire to buy it based on the seller's ads is a good reason. However, if, for any reason, employees refuse to provide information, there are other ways.
You can check the car absolutely free of charge on the website of the RSA, the traffic police. PCA is a universal database that includes all cars moving around the country. The service allows you to learn the full maximum about the car and its owner.
