It is difficult to imagine a modern person without a car, which greatly simplifies life. But here the purchase / sale is accompanied by a pile of papers, time spent, nerves and money. When a flood of foreign cars poured into Russia, people got a huge headache. Indeed, according to Russian laws, the engine number, body number, VIN and many other data must be recorded in the TCP. However, foreign automakers consider ICE cars to be a replacement part. Western manufacturers motor number It is used only for maintenance, it is absolutely not needed for identification. It is not recorded in documents for cars and, by and large, is of interest only to car service specialists. The latter is needed to clarify the characteristics of spare parts for the motor.
So, let's figure out where the engine number is in the car and why it is needed. Typically, manufacturers apply it to the constituent elements of the motor of the machine. Significant difficulties are the fact that each car plant has its own ideas about where the engine number should be. Its location is usually spelled out in the instructions for the unit. If the car was not bought in the passenger compartment, but from a private person, then you can find instructions on the Internet. If you have a product of the domestic automobile industry in your garage, then where is it to look for the engine number? VAZ It has VIN, body and motor numbers in places known to motorists for a long time. They are as follows:
- VIN is located on the front wing mudguard on the right, it is duplicated on the trunk floor (also on the right);
- above the oil filter, directly on the cylinder block (left), the engine number is located;
- the last seven digits of the VIN are the body number.
Why do I need an engine number? He, as has already been said, is entered in the vehicle's TCP. Along with the body number, it is necessary to identify vehicles (in particular, to facilitate the investigation of cases of theft).
In addition, in Russia it is forbidden to change the design of the car without coordination with the manufacturer. Accordingly, the numbers of the unit available and registered in the passport must match (unless, of course, the engine was changed).
The process of reconciling the numbers was tedious for both the car owner and the traffic police inspector. Sometimes it was delayed for several hours, because the inspector could not find the engine number. Western concerns, as described above, do not attach much importance to this set of numbers. Therefore, it is placed under the hood of a car in various places, but is not protected from external influences.
Since April 2011, in Russia, when registering a car, they stopped checking the engine number. His entry in the registration papers of the car was also canceled. In addition, the deregistration procedure itself is simplified and does not require the presence of the owner, it is carried out automatically. When selling a car to a person living in the same area, you can not change the license plate number.
True, at first difficulties arose in the divergence of the letter and the spirit of the law. Many car owners complained that the MREO still compares the numbers. But now the situation seems to have improved.