How to check the car for theft? How to break through, is the car in hijacking or not?

When planning the purchase of a used car, there are many problems. How and where to find a car in a good technical condition - through friends, on private ads or on the market? How to identify a car with a twisted odometer, broken, repainted? And finally, how to check the car for theft, that is, for legal "purity"?

We will not give advice about buying a new car. The purpose of the article is to tell how to avoid buying a stolen or illegally imported car in the secondary market. So, you have decided on the machine, discussed with the seller the price, and you are already impatient to pay money and get behind the wheel. Do not hurry! We need to check if the car is in hijack. How to do this, we'll explain below, but for now, carefully examine the documents - in most cases they will "tell" you about the fate of the car. Here is their list: certificate of registration (if auto is registered), PTS (vehicle passport), cargo customs declaration ( customs declaration), import certificate and customs order.

Verification of documents

TCP is the main document. Pay attention to the form. Like money bills, it is made at the enterprises of Goznak. Therefore, it has a certain degree of protection, namely, watermarks. They should be clearly visible when viewing the form in the light. In some cases, you may need a magnifying glass. The form itself should be of proper quality and not be "washed" (this way scammers destroy the original information and print on top of a new one). There is a circle or a holographic strip on the face of the PTS. Look closely at her. Images and labels should be clear and easily readable. And of course, the hologram should not look like it was glued with tape. In the upper left corner of the PTA form is the "rose". If you change the angle, it becomes gray (with a direct look its color is bright green). Also this drawing is voluminous. You can see this by simply swiping it with your finger.

Surely our readers can not wait to learn how to check the car for theft. Do not rush! If there are watermarks on the PTA, and everything is good with the hologram and the "rose", we go into the study of the content of the document. Check the series and number. The first two digits are the area code where the passport was issued. At this stage, you can immediately find out whether he has changed. There are two important points. For domestic cars - the passport is assigned by the manufacturer (VAZ brand has the code of region 63). For foreign cars - PTS gives customs at the place of customs clearance of cars. This will be testified by the stamp of the customs on the passport (folded, in the lower left corner). Also, in clause # 23 there should be a name of the customs. In addition, the form requires the presence of a personal seal and the signature of a customs officer involved in the registration of the PTA. It is unacceptable that a passport with the code of one region be issued in another. It is better to refrain from buying a similar car.

Required marks and a duplicate

If the column "special notes" contains the GTD number, then, most likely, the car was cleared honestly. If the car is sold for a duplicate passport, then this is very suspicious. Scammers specifically "lose" documents on the car and then receive through their people a "clean" PTS. Or they destroy the passport, deliberately spoil it (burn, tear) and go to the nearest traffic police department, where they are issued an official "clean" duplicate. If you have doubts about the TCP, you can send a request (in an arbitrary form) to the customs authorities to confirm the "cleanliness" of the car.

How to check the car for theft?

Well, we reached this stage. To check, in the hijacking of the car, any employee of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate can get through the database "Auto-search". But this applies only to Russian cars. It remains possible to face an auto stolen abroad and being on the international wanted list. A lot of such cars got to our country in 1994-95, when the traffic police and Interpol practically did not exchange information. According to statistics, every 2nd foreign car imported in those years has a "dark" past. Now importing stolen cars into Russia is much more difficult.

Despite the not very active work of Interpol in our country, the history of any car can be found without any problems. For many years, firms have established ties with the traffic police, Interpol and customs and verify the legality of sales transactions in the territory of another state. You can get information either orally, or in writing (in the form of a conclusion about the "cleanliness" of the car with the signatures of the responsible traffic police). The waiting time for such a document does not exceed a week. Now you know how to check the car for theft. But there is one more important nuance that needs to be considered.

Problems with the numbered aggregates

In Russia, the car can be identified by three nodes: the chassis, the engine and the body. For example, in Germany, only one - the body. There may be a situation where the previous owner of the machine changed the engine. At the same time mechanics stuffed the old motor number on the new engine, because there it is not forbidden to do it. And at us such car at once will receive the criminal status. By the way, if a traffic police officer (who knows how to break a car into hijacking) declares that your car is stolen, then he could simply confuse him with a double car. Typically, inspectors check only the last digits of a long VIN number. And sometimes they can coincide with the figures that were present in the numbers of the stolen cars.

Buy from authorized dealers

The best option - to buy cars in specialized companies (delivering cars on request) or from authorized dealers. Serious offices will never communicate with "dark" machines. They always pre-sale the car and give a guarantee. There are few such firms, and their prices are too high, but you will definitely save yourself from trouble.

We hope that this article about how to find out if the car was in hijacking or not, turned out to be useful. And finally ...

What should I do if I bought a stolen car?

According to statistics, if a person bought a car in hijacking, in most cases he will remain with both an empty garage and an empty wallet. The vehicle will be returned to the rightful owner, and the buyer will be able to demand the return of his funds only if it turns out to find a criminal. But most often it can not be found. Therefore, take the process of checking the purchased second-hand car with all seriousness.