The Russian secondary market is gradually acquiring a civilized shape. Today, the history of a used car can be checked by knowing it. Some services only need it, others will ask in addition to indicate the series and number of the registration certificate (CTC). This information can be requested from the seller.

How to check a car for free?

There are two official state portals that provide the results of a comprehensive check: Avtokod and the traffic police website. The first one provides information only to registered users. For the report, you must indicate the VIN or state number of the car, the series and the STS number. The portal will show general information about the car (factory data - color, category, engine volume and power, etc.), information about accidents, passed technical inspections, the number of owners, operating in taxi mode, the fact of being wanted.

The traffic police portal does not require registration, and it only needs a VIN code to check it. The site will not tell you about technical inspections or permits for a taxi, but there is a separate column about the restrictions imposed on registration actions. They can be, for example, due to the owner's debt.

Since the abovementioned work at the state level, they should receive the most complete information from the departments - in theory. Unfortunately, this is not the case. We ran through both systems several VIN-codes of cars whose history we knew thoroughly (editorial and personal). The main thing a potential buyer wants to know is the facts of accidents. To our surprise, for three cars, the traffic police website did not know about the collisions that had occurred with them, although they did happen and were properly decorated. Avtokod was not aware of the problematic past of only one car. Why is this happening?

Accident history

The history tracking project itself was only launched in 2014. Accidents that happened earlier could not get into it. The traffic police portal honestly warns that it has data only from the beginning of 2015. However, even after this date, the information was not received in the database in full. Some episodes, to the luck of the sellers, may be lost. In addition, accidents registered in accordance with the European protocol do not fall into the database. The fact is that information is transmitted only by the traffic police, insurance companies do not do unnecessary work. And it just implies that the collision passed by the traffic police - only the insurance company knows about it, to which the victim applied for compensation. On the other hand, registration without a traffic police call means that the car received minimal damage, and repainted parts will be noticeable during inspection. But still remember that checking against an electronic database is not a panacea.

Number of owners by TCP

The number of owners may not say anything either. For example, one of the cars we checked, according to reports from the traffic police and Avtokoda, had three owners. But all this is one and the same company that changed names from time to time. It happens that a car changes private owners purely formally: for one reason or another, it is reissued to different family members. So in this case, you yourself and ask the seller, for what reasons this happened.

Information about, as our check showed, is transmitted only by the operators of the inspection. That is, landmarks appear only once a year or two, and for a fresh car under the age of three, they will not be at all. In addition, we all know perfectly well how easy it is today to get a diagnostic card unofficially. And when passing the inspection "by phone", nothing prevents the owner from naming a fictional, not real, mileage. So if you keep the odometer adjustment in mind right before selling, you can provide a nice alibi for a few years of ownership.

Our experiment has shown that insurance companies do not yet supply vehicle verification systems with the information they have. But this would make the history of most cars on the secondary market much more transparent for the benefit of potential buyers. Apparently, the sale of diagnostic cards and crying to the authorities about the hard lot do not leave time for useful work.

Paid check by VIN number

And what about the paid ones, of which a great multitude has bred? Depending on the degree of greed and promises, they ask for a report on one car from 50 to 400 rubles or more. True, the most expensive services, as one, offer "promotions" with big discounts. We pretended to buy and ordered checks on the most "problematic" car on several sites. And ... no revelations about her were found. The same information was given to us by the Autocode portal - only for free. We highly doubt that commercial resources really have any exclusive knowledge.

Other services

If you do not trust the traffic police website and Avtokod, you can check it yourself on other portals in specific areas. The resource of the Federal Notary Chamber will tell you about finding the car in bail, the Federal Bailiff Service - about enforcement proceedings against the owner (you must indicate his full name), capital

When buying a vehicle, it is quite important to check the car in advance by the VIN code of the traffic police for free.

This will help to check the seller's information or, on the contrary, to refute it, avoiding buying a "bad" car.

Check the car online by VIN number (online):

Enter the VIN number in the form below and click - Search.

VIN code of the car - where to find it and what it means

This is the vehicle identification number. This is a unique code that consists of 17 characters - numbers from 0 to 9 and all Latin letters, except for I, O, Q, since they are similar to numbers 1 and 0.

The number can be written on non-removable parts on:

• body;
• chassis;
• steering wheel or steering column;
• thermal insulation partition;
• front of the engine;
• front door frame - driver's or, less often, passenger's;
• bracket supporting the radiator;
• a shield on the windshield;
• inner wheel arch of the left side.

It is also indicated in the passport of TV and STS.

For reference: the name VIN (VIN) comes from the English "Vehicle identification number".

Encrypted in the room:

1. Region, country and manufacturer - first 3 characters.
2. Model - 4-5 characters.
3. Wheelbase - 6 characters.
4. Body type - 7 symbol.
5. Engine - 8 character.
6. Transmission type - 9 characters.
7. Year of issue - 10 characters.
8. Branch of the plant - 11 characters.
9. The serial number is 12-17 characters.

Checking a car by VIN code for free on the traffic police website

This is the simplest, fastest and most reliable way, since the check will take place in the traffic police databases.

To check, you must:

1. Go to the official website of the traffic police - http://www.gibdd.ru;
2. Select the section "Services" - "Car check";
3. Enter the VIN number;
4. Then you will need to specify the required verification:
   • on the history of vehicle registration;
   • whether the car was involved in an accident: data is given since 2015;
   • whether he is wanted;
   • checking for the presence or absence of restrictions.

Under each option on the site there will be a button "Request verification". When pressed, you will need to enter the verification code, the result will be displayed on the screen after a few seconds.

Take into account: when checking the history, only completely matching numbers are taken into account: if the requestor makes a mistake in at least one digit, the check will show an incorrect result.

VIN check on the Autocode website

"Autocode" is an information site created for car owners.

Here you can find information on fines and car evacuations, check documents, sign up for the traffic police or the medical board, write an appeal to some government agencies, and also find out if there are any restrictions on the car in the form of arrest or use as collateral.

Its useful to note: you can find information on the site only for cars registered in Moscow and the Moscow region.

To check one VIN number will not be enough - you will also need to find out the STS number. In this case, the VIN number can be replaced with a state number. On the main page there will be a window for driving in numbers. It is enough to enter the information and click "Check". The information will be displayed on the screen.

Checking the VIN number of the vehicle should not take much time: just visit one of the above sites and enter the numbers. It is worth remembering that both sites are state-owned, and the check is carried out against official databases. This makes the information provided completely true and accurate.

However, verification offers from third-party sites may turn out to be fraudulent - it is better not to try to get information through them.

Watch the video, which clearly demonstrates how to check a car for free by VIN code:

To most car enthusiasts, this 17-digit character set seems incomprehensible, even mysterious. However, you can find out almost everything about the car by the wine code, because the VIN code contains almost all the information about it. It is a passport or some kind of DNA of any vehicle.

What is VIN code? 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 (Vehicle Identification Number) stands for a unique identification number.

Prior to its adoption, it was possible to identify a car by its body and engine numbers. Fraudsters interrupted, cut them down, trying to "confuse the tracks", prevent the traffic police from tracing the history of the car, to determine its real owner.

The original VIN code consisted of 7 digits and was stamped on the chassis. Now it contains 17 characters (numbers and Latin letters). It contains a lot of information. By the wine code, you can find out almost everything about the car:

• identify the manufacturer and the current owner;
• get acquainted with the history of operation;
• find out the technical characteristics;
• specify the year of manufacture, car mileage, participation in an accident;
• familiarize yourself with the complete set.

Decoding the car's vin code is in demand when buying a used vehicle, because unscrupulous sellers can hide the true state of affairs from the buyer, provide inaccurate data. But even if you buy a new car in a car dealership, after decrypting the car's wine code for free via Internet services, you can specify its year of manufacture, model, select the type of engine oil, and familiarize yourself with other necessary information.

How can I find the VIN code?

There is no clearly fixed, standard location for the identification code. The manufacturer places it at its discretion. It is applied to one-piece body parts, chassis. This can be a small metal plate on the front door pillar, under the hood lid, in the luggage compartment, inside the dashboard. It can be applied under the windshield, on the inside of one of the car fenders, and so on.

In order to find out the wine code, just look at the documentation that comes with the car:

• technical passport;
• registration certificate;
• insurance policy.

If you are purchasing a used car from your hands, make sure that the 17-digit set indicated on the documents matches the one printed on the vehicle itself.

For almost any car manufactured 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.

VIN-code consists of three blocks.

1. WMI - Vendor ID

These are the first three characters, in which the geographic zone is encrypted (region - Asia, Europe, and so on), the country of origin, the company. The tables below provide a WMI transcript: country and manufacturer definition.

Decoding the country in the VIN code

Some manufacturers have more than one WMI, but at the same time more than one manufacturer cannot be encrypted under one character set. If the company for some reason curtailed production and no longer manufactures cars, then after 30 years, the identifier may be transferred to another company.

1. VDS - vehicle characteristics

This block contains 6 characters. They allow you to find out the complete set of a car by wine code, vehicle model, body type, main technical characteristics, and other options:

• 4 symbol - body;
• 5th symbol - engine;
• 6th symbol - model;
• 7, 8 symbols - information at the request of the manufacturer.

Items 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. For this, the letters included in the block are replaced with numbers in a certain way, and the calculation is performed using a special mathematical formula. The check digit value can be represented as a digit (0 to 9) or an letter (X) value.

1. VIS - distinctive features

The last eight characters indicate the characteristics of this vehicle:

• 10 position - the year in which the release 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), from 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.
• 11 position - information about the factory where the car was assembled;
• 12-17 positions - the serial number of the car, assigned to it during internal accounting.

In order for the decoding you performed to be as accurate and complete as possible, after determining the country of the car manufacturer (according to WMI), go to the manufacturer's website and specify what information is encrypted in characters 4 - 11. This must be done, since many companies do not strictly follow the provisions of the standard.

How to check the VIN-code of a car?

In order to be 100% sure that the car you are buying is not wanted or under bail, first of all, clarify the authenticity of the existing identifier. The vehicle's VIN code check can be performed visually. To do this, you need to carefully examine the symbols embossed on the parts 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 vehicles. Here you can punch your car and search for the wine code for free. In fact, you can even check the complete set of a car by wine code for free.

There are many services on the Internet that offer services for decoding the car's wine code, 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 wine code, clarify the configuration, engine model, car color and other parameters, it is enough to enter a 17-digit set of characters in a special field and start a check. Some resources require the introduction of additional settings (brand, year of issue). Please note that the information available on the network may not be entirely reliable, therefore, to obtain more accurate information, it is recommended to check the wine code on several sites.

1. Site gibdd.ru

Since 2014, the function of free wine code check is 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;
• check fines;
• find out about the 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 car's wine code in the appropriate fields and click "Start check".

"Antirobot" will ask you to enter security symbols, and then will display the results of the check. If you do not have a VIN code, you can use the body, chassis number to identify the vehicle.

The service allows you to check a car's 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.

On this service, only a short report is provided free of charge. After making a payment (267 rubles), you will get access to more data:

• engine, body number;
• wheel formula;
• data on PTS and vehicle owners;
• mileage;
• participation in an accident and so on.

Working with other services is similar to those presented above.

Enter the wine code in the appropriate field and click on the "Check" button

For more detailed information, click "Decrypt".

Enter wines and click on the "Check VIN" button.

Only basic information will be provided free of charge.

You will need to pay a small amount to get the details. In this case, you will learn the most complete information about the vehicle, the history of its operation.

In any case, checking is very convenient. It takes very little time, and the data available about the car is displayed directly on the monitor screen.

Autocode allows you to find out the history of the car before buying it quickly and easily. You don't need to look for a VIN - just enter the license plate of the car. 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 purchasing the vehicle.

What the check by car number will tell you about

A complete report is generated within 5 minutes. From it you will learn:

• data on TCP;
• history of registration actions;
• history of runs;
• data on participation in road accidents;
• calculations of repair insurance works;
• the presence of traffic police restrictions;
• information about theft;
• information about collateral;
• information about working in a taxi;
• disposal data;
• information on technical inspections, OSAGO and fines;
• history of advertisements for sale and much more.

You can check a car using a license plate without leaving your home. The report will be generated online, and a link to the report will be sent to the email address.

Why is it important to check a car using a state number

- Victim, did you recognize the one who stole your car?

“Your Honor, after his lawyer spoke, I doubt at all that I had a car.

Evgeny Loginov, auto expert, head of the project "My Expert - Yekaterinburg":

“A car is a technically complex product. How I like to say to 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 come across the fact that sellers do not agree and sell cars after an accident, with adjusted mileage, problem engines and gearboxes. It could be worse. You can run into intermediaries in the sale or, more simply, outbid. These comrades alter the steering wheels, overtighten the interior, restore the vehicle after the most serious accidents, when the geometry of the cars is broken or the airbags are deployed.

Buying a car with a "dirty" history, you not only run the risk of getting an expensive repair of the engine, gearbox and other elements, but also simply risk your life! In case 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 a car is, if it has problems with documents, there are restrictions on registration or it is stolen, then you will not register such a car. The most harmless 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 of the car is broken, the frame number is unreadable or erased, the engine number is missing ”.

What will happen if you do not pierce the car before buying

- Honey, my car broke down.

- Strong?

- In half.

Real stories of the 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 our word for it and seriously missed it, because when registering with the traffic police, it turned out that the car was restored after a major accident. The car lacked many expensive parts for proper operation. What can I say? I could only sell for spare parts. "

Michael:

“Several years ago I bought a car from a private person. Together we removed it from the register and issued it in my name. A few months later, the police came to me and took the vehicle for examination of the signatures, and then - the car itself. It turned out that the first owner turned to scammers to sell a car, after which he never saw them again. All this time the car was on the wanted list, and I didn't even know about it. The seller was never found. I had neither a receipt for the transfer of money, nor the real details of the seller. Left without everything, in short. Now I'm triple attentive. "

How to get a car with a license plate in 5 minutes

The algorithm for checking actions through the site service 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 vehicles registered in the Russian Federation. It is available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To punch a car with a 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

We collect information especially for you from all sources available to us. They include both state (traffic police database, pledge of registers) and commercial structures, including insurance companies, banks, leasing firms. From a huge amount of data, we form a single, most informative report for each vehicle. The report is generated online and is relevant at the time of ordering.

Why is it better to check a car through Autocode

With Autocode, you can quickly and efficiently check your car by license plate online. Checking allows you to trace the car on the base literally from the conveyor to the point of sale. The necessary information on cars is requested from Avtokoda not only by individuals, but also by specialized salons.

Why choose the Autocode website:

• the reliability and quality of reports checked against the traffic police database (we guarantee compensation for damage if the report turns out to be unreliable);
• the ability to check a car by registration number;
• check result after 5 minutes;
• applications for Iphone and Android for checking online;
• checking Japanese cars without a VIN-code - a unique service opportunity;
• favorable price for professional auto sellers -.

After checking the car by license plate, you will know exactly what the car is. Using these facts, you can fairly reduce the purchase price.

Autocode is a site for checking a car by license plate, which allows you to find out real data about a car right at the time of purchase and protect yourself from an unwanted transaction.

Good day. In this article I will show you a simple and free way to find out the car's wine code by the state number, if at least once since 2014 the car has passed an official inspection.

What is a wine code?

VIN the code ( Vehicle identification number ) - this is a unique seventeen-character vehicle identification number, which contains information about the year of manufacture, country of production, a specific manufacturer's plant, configuration. This information is encoded in the first seven digits. The remaining 10 (in most cases) are the serial number of the car. According to the manufacturer's internal databases (they are open at most companies), you can find out the color and additional equipment.

In most cases, the wine code is applied in several places and duplicated on the panel under the glass.

It looks like this:

Why is it sometimes necessary to find the wine code by number?

In the 21st century, the Internet allows you to instantly get information about the car. For example, on the traffic police website, by wine code, you can find out the history of car registration (i.e. who and how much owned a particular car), check the car for participation in an accident (from January 1, 2015), and most importantly, check the car for prohibition of registration actions and search. Agree - it is unpleasant to buy a car and find out that it is permanently registered. It doesn't matter if you are looking for a car for yourself or you are just ordinary

How to find out the car's wine code by state number (option 1)?

For simplicity, let's look at an example, there is a declaration like this:

The numbers are not visible, so I opened a larger photo:

We go to the site for checking the technical inspection on the EAISTO base ( https://kbm-osago.com/proverka-tehosmotra.html) and drive the numbers into the check form:

We press the button to check the technical inspection, and we get the result (in which the wine code will be indicated).

How to find out the wine code and in general all the data about the car, but for a fee?

Unfortunately, due to the heavy workload, the service given above does not always work, and after using it, you still have to go to the traffic police website and watch the pledges, restrictions and accidents (and then only from 2015), but there is an option to use a paid one a service that will provide all the data in one report - autocode. It is very convenient and understandable, enter the number and get a full report on the car. Traffic accidents, registration history, customs, restrictions.

We learned all the wine codes by number…. What to do with it next?

Go to vehicle check page on the traffic police website and specifying the wine code, we get the result:

This car has a ban on registration actions, because of the debt on the enforcement sheet, click on the link with the enforcement proceedings number and go to the site of bailiffs, where we see a debt of 13 tr:

In principle, you can buy this car and it will be registered, provided that you pay the owner's debt and take a certificate about it…. Or if the owner pays the debt with you and gives you a document on the lifting of restrictions.

That's all for me today. I hope that the question of how to find out the car's wine code by state number is fully disclosed in the article. If you still have questions, or if you know an easier method, write comments.