There are often situations in our lives when documents have disappeared without a trace. They could simply be lost or stolen. There is no need to immediately run and restore the title, as difficulties may arise when applying for insurance or selling a car if you provide a document marked “duplicate”.
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On the other hand, you definitely can’t hesitate, because if the vehicle’s passport falls into the hands of fraudsters, an extremely unpleasant situation may arise.
In the case when the owner of the car is absolutely sure that it is impossible to find the title, how to restore it, how much does it cost and how long does it take? Answers to these and other questions can be found in the article.
Algorithm of actions in case of loss of PTS
What should a driver do if the vehicle’s passport is lost:
- Pay the state fee.
- Collect the necessary package of documents.
- Go to the traffic police department, exactly where the vehicle is registered.
- Fill out the application form provided and indicate the reason.
- Wait from an hour to five business days.
- Come to the department after notification from the employees and pick up the document. Important! It will indicate that it is a duplicate and not an original.
Required documents in case of loss of vehicle passport
When contacting the inspectorate, you need to prepare in advance:
- Russian Federation passport (copies of all pages and the original).
- An agreement stating that the citizen is the owner of the car. A purchase and sale agreement will do.
- Certificate of registration.
- Insurance.
- A receipt indicating that the duty has been paid.
- Application form. The form will be issued on the spot or you can first find it on the Internet, download it, fill it out at home without haste and take it to the traffic police.
- A written explanation of the reasons why the technical equipment passport was lost. If the reasons include theft, a certificate of opening a criminal case will be required. You can find out more about this below.
In addition, you will need to park the car in a nearby parking lot so that an inspection officer can inspect it.
Terms and cost of passport renewal
The state duty for the restoration of PTS is 500 rubles. Separately, you will have to pay 350 rubles for a new number on the certificate, which is also issued again. The traffic police may also offer to change the old license plates of vehicles.
If the owner agrees, he will have to pay another 2 thousand rubles for such pleasure. It is important to note that when submitting an application for PTS restoration on the State Services website, a 30% discount is provided.
You can receive a new passport after an hour. However, in some cases you will have to wait up to 5 days if the employees are very busy. In the event that problems arise with the documents, the deadline for consideration of the application is shifted by one calendar month.
What is the price
How much does it cost to restore documents for a car:
- The cost of state duty for the restoration of a driver’s license is 2,000 rubles.
- The cost for restoring the title is 800 rubles.
- To restore the vehicle registration certificate – 500 rubles.
If you get insurance again and do maintenance, you must also take into account the amount that will be needed for these activities. The total amount will be 6000-8000 rubles, which, of course, is not small, but reasonable.
Car inspection during title restoration
When the owner applies to renew the vehicle’s passport, he not only brings documents, but also drives his car to a special parking lot. This is necessary for the inspector to inspect the vehicle.
An authorized employee conducts a thorough inspection of the machine. It is better to clean the car in advance to avoid any difficulties.
After the inspection, the inspector checks the license plates on the car with those indicated in the documents, fills out the required column in the application and signs. With this document you should go back to the window and wait for your passport.
How to restore a vehicle passport without the owner?
Sometimes situations arise when the owner himself cannot restore the document. In this case, the person who will submit the documents will need to provide a power of attorney, which is certified by a notary. The owner will have to do it himself.
In order for traffic police officers to accept the package of required documents along with this power of attorney, you need to indicate in it a paragraph that describes in detail the rights to such an action.
In addition, it should contain the following points:
- Owner information.
- Information about the person who is engaged in the restoration of the vehicle title.
- List of representative rights.
- Be sure to indicate whether reassignment is possible.
- Date of drawing up the power of attorney.
- Validity periods.
If the car was purchased from the state, then the vehicle passport can be restored under the purchase agreement. In this case, the PTS will simply need to be replaced. However, such an action requires another pact of documents.
Lost your driver's license
Only the traffic police can restore your license, but to be on the safe side, first contact the police station to report the loss. This is not required by law, but such a step will avoid litigation if the missing documents end up in the hands of an attacker.
A set of documents required to restore rights:
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Citizens of Russia living in another region without a temporary residence permit will have to go to their place of permanent registration to renew their rights to drive a vehicle and contact the local branch of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Russian Federation. It is possible to obtain a new driver's license if you do not have a residence permit, but you will have to take an exam. Then a receipt for payment of the exam fee will be added to the package of documents for reinstatement.
If the motorist does not have the desire or time to resolve such a situation, then he can delegate his powers to another person, for example, a lawyer. He is given a package of documents, which he submits to the traffic police, along with an application for restoration of rights. However, he will have to obtain the license himself personally, since the driver’s signature is placed on the license.
In most cases, a driver's license is not issued immediately. For some time, the motorist is given a temporary permit, giving the right to drive a vehicle. As a rule, its validity period is 30 days. You will also have to pay for it.
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Restoring PTS in case of theft
What to do if a document is not just lost, but was stolen along with others? The algorithm of actions is as follows:
- Open a criminal case regarding the theft.
- Submit an application to the traffic police department, where the personal data of the applicant is indicated.
- Write an explanatory note indicating that the PTS was stolen.
- Receive a certificate of closure of the criminal case.
In this case, you will have to wait a little more than one week, but no more than 30 days. The period depends on when the certificate of closure of the theft case will be received.
In order to have such a certificate at all, you must first go to the police department. All this takes a lot of time and effort, so drivers often hide the fact that the document has been stolen.
What to do if restoration is denied?
Inspectorate employees do not have the right to refuse to issue a duplicate for no reason. It is important to know the reasons for the refusal in order to correct the situation.
If everything is normal, but the document is not restored, you can go to court. It rarely comes to this; most often, car enthusiasts simply try to cancel the refusal.
Reasons for refusal to issue PTS
- Prohibition of registration.
- An incomplete package of documents has been submitted or the stated information is not enough for consideration.
- There is no receipt for payment of the fee.
- Upon inspection of the car, it was discovered that it was unsafe.
- The documents are fake.
- The suspicion is that the vehicle has been stolen.
- The car is wanted.
Check for participation in traffic accidents
More than 75% of cars have been in an accident at least once, and sellers often try to hide this fact.
We talk about the signs of a damaged car and how to check for participation in an accident in a separate article.
If during inspection of the car you notice signs of repair, check the car using Autocode. From the report you will find out where, when and what type of accident the car was involved in.
The procedure for registering a PTS, like an STS, although short, is troublesome. To obtain duplicate vehicle passports, you need to file a claim with the state traffic inspectorate, MREO and the vehicle inspection department.
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Restoring the vehicle registration certificate is simpler; you will be given a copy of the vehicle registration certificate in your vehicle passport. If the PTS was lost or stolen, you will have to replace both the PTS and STS, providing a passport and insurance certificate. In any case, the claim indicates the reason: theft, damage to a document, or fire. Duplicates can be obtained without first inspecting the car, but inspectors may ask you to show the car to check its license plates.
The process of restoring a registration certificate is similar to registering a car for registration. You will need:
- passport;
- registration certificate;
- insurance policy;
- power of attorney for motor transport;
- inspection vehicles;
- technical inspection certificate;
- copy of PTS;
- paid receipt.
You will also need to present certificates from the state traffic inspectorate stating that the vehicle has not been confiscated.
If your civil passport was stolen, contact the police department at the place of theft. Based on the statement, a criminal case will be initiated. Ask to provide you with a copy of the decision to initiate a criminal case and to recognize you as a victim.
If your passport is lost, you do not need to contact the police department. You should report the loss to the Federal Migration Service. There you will be provided with a receipt to pay the fine for losing your passport (100-300 rubles).
The migration service will ask you to provide a birth certificate or other identification document. In addition, 4 photographs of 35x45 mm will be useful. After paying the state fee for the production of a new passport (500 rubles), you will be given a temporary identity card. A new passport takes no more than a month to produce.
Step 2. Next, we restore the driver’s license.
Registration through State Services at the State Traffic Inspectorate to restore the vehicle title
To save your own time, you can submit documents and an application, as well as pay the state fee online on the State Services portal.
How to do it correctly:
- Register on the site.
- Login to your account.
- Select the service “Receiving STS, PTS to replace lost or unusable ones.”
- Fill out the application, indicating data from your passport, insurance, registration document, purchase agreement, certificate that the transport is safe.
- Make an appointment with the inspection.
- After submitting the application, you need to pay the fee, save the receipt and subsequently print it.
At the specified time, you need to come to the department, give the original documents, and receive the PTS.
It is important to note that when registering a passport on the website, there is a 30% discount on the state fee.
Losing documents is always unpleasant. However, they need to be restored in time so that scammers do not have time to take advantage of them. It’s worth finding out in advance what documents are needed when submitting an application, how much the fee costs, what the restoration period is, in order to save your own time and not go to the traffic police department just like that.
In case of theft, you need to visit the police station in advance, they will issue a certificate of opening a criminal case. It is attached to the application. If restoration is denied, you need to find out the reason and correct the shortcomings. In the case where this helped her, and the owner of the car is confident that he is right, he needs to go to court.
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I lost my car documents. What to do?
1. What needs to be done?
Restore documents for a car after they have been lost.
2. How to restore the PTS?
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Let's simulate the most unpleasant situation, when all the documents for the car are lost: title, vehicle registration certificate, compulsory motor liability insurance policy and diagnostic card. Many car owners, remembering that the PTS is not required to be presented to traffic police officers, do not store it in the car and do not carry it with them, keeping it at home along with other important documents. However, we will also consider its loss - especially since the loss of the PTS is the most unpleasant case of all possible scenarios.
So, the PTS is lost. The procedure for restoring it is simple: you need to contact any convenient traffic police department and write an application for the issuance of a PTS to replace the lost one, having previously paid the fee for issuing a duplicate vehicle passport, and also present your passport and car purchase and sale agreement when applying.
Yes, exactly a duplicate: this is the most unpleasant circumstance in the whole story. There can only be one original PTS, and if it is lost, the newly issued document will be stamped “Duplicate” and marked “Replace the lost one.” This is a very “inconvenient” mark: many avoid buying a car with such a mark in the title, fearing fraud - a scheme to obtain a duplicate title for the illegal sale of a car really exists. Therefore, try to be careful with your car passport and not lose it.
Along with your new passport, you will be given a new vehicle registration certificate - do not forget to pay the fee for its issuance in advance. By the way, you do not need to provide a car for inspection when receiving duplicate documents.
3. How to restore the vehicle registration certificate?
Restoring the registration certificate is even less of a problem. The restoration procedure is no different from that with a PTS: you need to fill out a standard application, pay a fee and present your passport and PTS when contacting the traffic police. In addition to the fee for issuing the certificate itself, you will also need to pay a fee for making changes to the PTS. Unlike the PTS, the registration certificate is not marked “duplicate”, so its loss will not cause you any further inconvenience other than wasted time and money.
4. How to restore the MTPL policy?
This procedure is not only simple, but also free. To restore a previously purchased MTPL policy, you need to contact any office of the insurance company with which you entered into an agreement, providing previously restored documents for the car and your own passport. After verification, you will be issued a new policy similar to the lost one.
5. How to restore a diagnostic card?
It’s as simple as a compulsory motor liability insurance policy: you need to contact any organization authorized to carry out technical inspections. The issuance of a duplicate diagnostic card is regulated by the Federal Law “On technical inspection of vehicles and on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation”, which contains paragraphs 7, 8 and 9 :
7. In the event of loss or damage to a diagnostic card during its validity period, a corresponding duplicate is issued by any technical inspection operator at the request of the owner of the vehicle or his representative based on the information contained in the unified automated technical inspection information system.
8. A duplicate of the diagnostic card is issued to the applicant on the day of application.
9. For the issuance of a duplicate diagnostic card, a fee is charged in the amount of one tenth of the maximum fee for conducting a technical inspection established by the authorized government body of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.
In general, obtaining a duplicate diagnostic card is not an urgent procedure. Thanks to the notorious “unified automated information system for technical inspection,” you will be given a copy of the MTPL policy without presenting this duplicate, and you do not need to present the card itself during normal operation.
6. How much does it cost to restore lost documents?
Let's list the cost of restoration in order.
The state fee for issuing a duplicate PTS is 800 rubles. Along with the PTS, you will need to receive a registration certificate, the state fee for issuing which costs another 500 rubles. That is, the loss of both documents will cost you 1,300 rubles.
If only the registration certificate is lost, you will also need to pay two state fees: 500 rubles for issuing a new certificate and 350 rubles for making changes to the PTS. Total – 850 rubles.
On payment of state fees, as in other cases, you can save 30% by completing the registration and payment procedure electronically through the State Services portal . In this case, the fee for issuing a PTS will be 560 rubles instead of 800, for issuing a vehicle registration certificate - 350 rubles instead of 500, and for making changes to the PTS - 245 rubles instead of 350.
The cost of a duplicate diagnostic card is a little more vague: as we remember, by law it is set “in the amount of one tenth of the maximum fee for conducting a technical inspection established by the authorized government body of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.” That is, if the standard fee for passing a technical inspection in your region costs 500 rubles, then obtaining a duplicate will cost 50.
Well, restoring the MTPL policy, as we said, is a free procedure.
7. Other nuances
Speaking about the loss of documents for a car, it is worth mentioning two more important details. Firstly, if you have lost your documents, you do not have the right to drive a car: this is classified as “driving a vehicle by a driver who does not have registration documents for the vehicle” and is punishable not only by a warning or a fine of 500 rubles, but also by detention car and placing it in a special parking lot. Don’t take risks: call a tow truck and move the car to a safe parking spot while the documents are restored.
Secondly, if your documents were not lost, but stolen, then first of all you need to contact the police. Having received a document confirming your application, you will present it to the traffic police, however, in this case, the procedure for restoring documents may drag on until the criminal case initiated on the theft is closed.
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