What is a vehicle Title: features, purpose, nuances of use

Today, a car is an important means of transportation. Legislation obliges its citizens to have a passport, the same applies to cars. Each machine must have its own registration documents that will allow you to perform all necessary legal operations with it. Just for such cases, TCP is needed. But what is a TCP and what does a car owner need to know about it?

What is TCP

The abbreviation "PTS" stands for "passport technical means." This is a document that contains basic information about the car, which determines the right to own it. This is an analogue of such an important document for a person as a passport, only in the automotive version.

Since the vehicle title is a legal document, it is necessarily protected in the form of watermarks, stripes, which also occur on banknotes. In addition, all data from each TCP is recorded in a single registration database, which is also designed to protect the ownership of the car. It is important to note that if the owner of the TCP has an old standard, then you need to replace it, otherwise you can assume that it will be invalid.

What should be indicated in the TCP

A Russian-style self-passport is a sheet of paper whose dimensions are 30x21 cm. It contains 24 columns, which are filled with relevant information. On it you can track completely the entire history of the car. The graphs contain the following information:

1. Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), which consists of 17 letters and numbers.
2. Car make and model.
3. The name of the car (truck, car, and so on).
4. Car category.
5. Year of issue.
6. Engine model and serial number (from 6 to 20 numbers with letters).
7. Data that relates to the frame and chassis of the car.
8. Body serial number (it often happens that for a car and a body the serial number is the same)
9. Vehicle body color.
10. Engine power, which according to new standards is indicated both in horsepower and in kilowatts.
11. Engine displacement, in cubic cm.
12. Engine's type.
13. The maximum mass of the car that is allowed (the mass of the car, the driver and 5 passengers, as well as the cargo in the trunk is calculated).
14. The mass of the car without load (net weight of the car).
15. Machine manufacturer. This column should contain not only the full name of the manufacturer, but also the country where the car was produced.
16. Approval of the vehicle. This means that the car complies with all the rules and regulations established by law.
17. The country from which the car was taken.
18. Customs cargo declaration, which contains the number of this passport.
19. Various customs restrictions. This column is mainly made violations that are associated with the underestimated cost of the machine.
20. Name of owner or name of organization that owns the car.
21. Address of car owner.
22. Name of organization to which this document was issued.
23. The address of the organization to which the vehicle title was issued.
24. Date of issue of this passport.

As you can see, the document contains a lot of information about the car. However, there are situations when it is necessary to replace it. In what cases should this be done?

In which cases is a replacement or TCP recovery?

Each car owner should remember that the TCP is evidence that the car is in his ownership. Therefore, it must be protected from various troubles - theft, loss and various injuries.If the owner failed to provide proper protection for the passport, something happened to him - it is necessary to replace it as soon as possible. Current legislation prohibits driving a car whose passport has been lost, stolen or is invalid.

What to do if TCP has been stolen?

For example, TCP was abducted. In this case, it is worth contacting the police station and writing a statement about his theft (but only if the owner is 100% sure of the theft). This will help to limit the movement of the criminal in the city.

After this, it is necessary to come to the traffic police department. You need to take with you such documents as a passport, an STS and an insurance policy. In general, the process of recovering TCP resembles the registration of a vehicle. In this case, you will have to pay a fee, the amount of which will be 500 rubles, and also to pay a duplicate of the STS, it costs 300 rubles. The old TCP and STS will become invalid in this case.

Also, the document is subject to replacement if any changes have been made to the design of the car - the replacement of units or parts that are indicated in the passport. In this case, the owner is issued a new passport, in which are the serial numbers of the new parts.

Some features of the use of TCP

Knowing what TCP is, one way or another, will be useful to any driver. For example, you always do not need to carry it with you at all, since the traffic police do not require it when checking. As mentioned above, it will be useful only when the car owner wants to perform actions such as selling a car, or other legal operations that require confirmation of ownership. In addition, there are a number of procedures that require this document.

This article briefly talks about what TCP is, what are its main features, how to handle it. We hope that the information was useful and useful to more than one car owner.