Engine number: is it really needed?

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

It is hard to imagine a modern person without a car, which greatly simplifies life. But buying/selling is accompanied by a pile of papers, wasted time, nerves and money. When a flood of cars of foreign brands 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 the internal combustion engine of a car a replaceable part. Western manufacturers use the motor number only for maintenance, it is absolutely not needed for identification. It is not entered into the documents for the car and, by and large, is of interest only to car service specialists. The last one is needed to clarify the characteristics of spare parts for the motor.

So, let's see where the engine number is located in the car and why it is needed. Typically, manufacturers apply it to the constituent elements of the machine's motor. A significant difficulty is that each car factory has its own ideas about where the engine number should be. Its location is usually specified in the instructions for the unit. If the car was bought not in the salon, but from a private person, then you can find instructions on the Internet. If you are ingarage is a product of the domestic automotive industry, then where can I find the engine number for it? VAZ has VIN, body and engine numbers in places known to motorists for a long time. They are as follows:

• VIN is located on the front fender mudguard on the right, it is duplicated on the trunk floor (also on the right);
• above the oil filter, right on the cylinder block (left), the engine number is placed;
• The last seven digits of the VIN are the body number.

Why do you even need an engine number? He, as already mentioned, is entered in the PTS of the car. 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 the consent of the manufacturer. Accordingly, the numbers of the existing and registered unit in the passport must match (unless, of course, the engine has not been changed).

The process of verifying numbers was tedious for both the car owner and the traffic police inspector. Sometimes it dragged on for several hours because the inspector couldn't 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 in any way.

Since April 2011 in Russia, when registering a car, they stopped checking the engine number. Canceled and his record in the registration papers of the car. In addition, herselfthe deregistration procedure 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.

True, at first there were difficulties in the discrepancy between the letter and the spirit of the law. Many car owners complained that the MREO still checks the numbers. But now the situation seems to have improved.