There are many ways to buy cars. If you want to buy a used car, you can go abroad for it yourself, on your own and as part of a special tourist group. With less hassle, you can buy a car through a newspaper ad or through acquaintances, as well as in car dealerships and car markets. Each of these methods has its own characteristics, but the following recommendations are similar for each of them.
So, before you legally make out the purchase of a car, you need to check the availability of all relevant documents. In this case, it is advisable to use a service such as checking a car for theft. These services now exist not only in the departments of the State traffic inspectorate, but also in many auto shops and large car markets. When buying a car with foreign numbers, in particular from the Baltic countries, a rather significant amount for customs clearance should be added to the asking price. When buying a car from the Kaliningrad region, pay attention to the customs mark in the technical passport, which can be valid both for Russia and only for the Kaliningrad region. In the latter case, you will have to clear the customs clearance of the car.
The main document for a car is a vehicle passport. Issuance of technical passports and old-style technical coupons (approved by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR No. 370 dated 10/15/82) discontinued on January 1, 1994. Previously issued passports are recognized as valid. But this year alone, our experts three times came across the fact that old-style passports, allegedly issued in 1995-1996, were presented for cars offered for sale. We advise you to refrain from purchasing cars with such documentation. Purchase of cars, in the technical passports of which there are entries such as b / n (without a number) or n/a (not installed), is also undesirable.
The procedure for filling out technical passports is defined "Instructions for filling out vehicle passports". We present from it, in our opinion, the most necessary information.
First of all, this is the decoding of the identification number (VIN).
The first part of the VIN code consists of 3 digits or letters indicating the geographic area, the country code and the company code of the vehicle manufacturer.
The second part of the VIN code consists of 6 numbers or letters indicating the vehicle according to the design documentation.
The third part of the VIN code consists of 8 numbers or letters indicating the serial number of the vehicle. The first character, consisting of a letter of the Latin alphabet, indicates the year of manufacture of the vehicle.
For example, the vehicle identification number VAZ-21013 has the following designation: XTA 210130D00000002, where X is the geographical area (Russia), T - code of the manufacturer (A - VAZ, B - AZLK, etc.), 210130 - model or modification, D - year of manufacture (1983), 00000002 – serial production number.
The following letters are set to indicate the year of manufacture of vehicles: D - 1983, E - 1984, F - 1985, G - 1986, H - 1987, J - 1988, K - 1989, L - 1990, M - 1991-1992, P - 1993, R - 1994, S - 1995, T - 1996, V - 1997, W - 1998, X - 1999, Y - 2000.
In the data sheet line "body color (cabins) " the visually detectable color in which the vehicle is painted is indicated: white, red, yellow, green, blue, brown, black, multicolor, etc.
In line "full body color name (cabins) " the name of the enamel is indicated according to the marking of the manufacturer.
When changing the color of the vehicle, a corresponding entry is made in the passport.
There are many ways to falsify and forge documents. Interrupt in practice (and, accordingly, are included in the document), usually one digit per number. But it seems inappropriate to talk about the intricacies of technology on the pages of a mass publication. And it is unlikely that a person who first picked up a document will be able to identify a forgery and pay attention to inconsistencies. Therefore, the most reasonable thing is to check the car for theft in the traffic police not only by checking the numbers with the computer data, but also by checking the documents. And yet, when visually inspecting the numbers on the car and documents, we advise you to pay attention to:
- correspondence of fonts and their slopes;
- correspondence and sequence of terms and dates in the records;
- lack of erasures and violations of the protective grid;
- legibility of imprints.
This issue is especially acute with regard to documents for cars that arrived from Poland and the Baltic states.