Document confirming completion of mandatory maintenance
For many years, only the traffic police had the authority to conduct mandatory technical inspection of cars. At the beginning of 2012, these functions were transferred to private OTO operators with the appropriate RSA accreditation. Today, instead of the previous maintenance coupon, a diagnostic inspection card is issued, which no longer needs to be glued to the windshield. It is not even necessary to carry the document with you, since traffic police inspectors no longer ask for it.
The diagnostic card is printed on plain A4 paper; the data of the vehicle and the maintenance operator at whose service station the work was carried out are entered into it.
The document number and vehicle information must be entered into the EAISTO electronic database. Otherwise, the contract is considered invalid and compulsory motor liability insurance cannot be issued on it.
From January 1, the 21-digit number on the diagnostic card has been canceled
In 2011, a diagnostic card was received for a car of the year of manufacture. Previously, technical inspection was carried out once every 2 years for technical equipment, from the year of manufacture of which 3 to 7 years have passed, including the year of their manufacture. The diagnostic card is valid until April 12.
Previously, after passing the technical inspection, a card with a digit number or with a digit number was issued, which was more often used by legal entities to submit to the Department of Transport. From January 1 of the year, the digit number is not indicated on the diagnostic card. Absolutely nothing.
A prerequisite for issuing an MTPL policy for a car older than three years is the presence of a diagnostic inspection card. It is issued based on the results of checking the technical serviceability of the vehicle. In this article you will learn about why you need a diagnostic inspection card number in the year, as well as what information it contains. For many years, only the traffic police had the authority to conduct mandatory technical inspection of cars. Today, instead of the previous maintenance coupon, a diagnostic inspection card is issued, which no longer needs to be glued to the windshield.
Checking the diagnostic inspection card using the EAISTO database
The use of coupons for completed technical inspection of a vehicle has been canceled and instead, a completely different paper is now provided - a diagnostic card. This suggests that drivers do not have to carry it with them all the time. The card is produced in a certain order, in an established format. It has its own validity period and cost. You should know all the details and details regarding the registration of the vehicle’s technical inspection even before you plan to drive it. You also need to know where to go to apply for a card. What is it and what does it look like? The diagnostic card below - DK - is an officially recognized document in Russia, which is a permit to operate a vehicle that has undergone a proper diagnosis of its technical condition. A4 paper contains complete information about all aggregate and other systems, as well as additional equipment, if it was installed on the car.
What diagnostic card number is needed for OSAGO online and where can you find these 15 digits?
Insurance companies are interested in confirming the authenticity of the diagnostic card. Before concluding a contract for Compulsory Automobile Liability Insurance, insurance company employees check the availability of a diagnostic card for a specific car using the EAISTO database. Not long ago, the painful problem of obtaining a technical certificate became a thing of the past. Upon completion of the technical inspection of the vehicle, a diagnostic card is currently issued. The documents are radically different.
This year, a diagnostic card was introduced to replace the inspection ticket.
But the main problem is that the inspection confirmation issued by the operator - a commercial organization with the appropriate license and specialists - does not have any protection, so it is not difficult to forge it. In connection with this, the question arises: how can you verify the authenticity of the presented form? The diagnostic card replaced the technical inspection card in the year.
How many digits are in the 2019 diagnostic inspection card number?
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Where can I find the number on the form?
Young motorists who are faced with the need to undergo mandatory maintenance for the first time will probably be interested in knowing where to find the diagnostic inspection card number. In 2021, its format has changed - the number of numbers in the combination has been reduced. You can find the number at the beginning of the document, in the “Registration number” section. Its value will change with each new mandatory maintenance. After each procedure, a new DC is issued with a different unique number.
How many numbers you will see on the diagnostic card depends on the time of the last maintenance. Until 2021, the combination consisted of 21 digits. Since the technical inspection is valid for two years, such documents are still in the hands of Russian drivers.
At the beginning of 2021, the number of the mandatory maintenance diagnostic card was reduced to 15 digits, but the validity period remained the same.
Decoding the diagnostic card number
The diagnostic maintenance card number is compiled in accordance with certain rules. Knowing them will allow you to recognize some information at a glance. For clarity, let’s decipher the value 081830021800085. This combination of numbers must be divided into 4 parts - 08183-002-17-00085. Decryption is carried out in the following order:
- 08183 – number of the accredited OTO operator in the RSA register;
- 002 – serial number of the specialist who directly carried out the maintenance;
- 17 – year of issue of mandatory maintenance;
- 00085 – serial number of the document issued this year by a certain OTO operator.
Knowing these values, you can easily compare the information hidden in the number with the data in the contents of the document. They must match.
How to print a diagnostic card from the EAISTO database
Information about completed maintenance is stored electronically for five years. A specialist at any technical inspection station can print out your inspection card and issue a paper duplicate, so if you lose it, it is very easy to restore it. The list of such organizations is in the RSA register on the official website.
These companies are accredited to carry out maintenance and have the right to enter new information into the EAISTO.
How to print a duplicate yourself via the Internet? After checking online for the availability of inspection information, you can print a diagnostic card from EAISTO in the service here or here.
When is a card number required?
Since the diagnostic card is printed on ordinary A4 office paper, it does not have counterfeit protection in the form of watermarks or holographic symbols. Enterprising scammers skillfully take advantage of this, and their tricks often fall for drivers who are not aware of the possibility of independently verifying the authenticity of a document. Citizens find out that they were sold a counterfeit during a visit to the office of the insurance company to obtain a compulsory motor liability insurance policy, when their application is denied.
In this case, checking the authenticity of the technical inspection using the diagnostic card number in the EAISTO electronic database will help. All accredited GTO operators are required to enter information about issued DCs here. The following information must be attached to the document number in the EAISTO database:
- Vehicle VIN code;
- state registration number;
- chassis and body number, if available;
- name of the OTO operator;
- validity period of the document.
When checking, the system will display the above information, which should be identical to the data in the diagnostic card. If you have been issued a fake mandatory maintenance diagnostic card, when making an online request for authenticity, the situation may develop according to one of the following scenarios:
- When used to check the VIN code or license plate number of a car, the system will not find your document in its database. Information will be provided based on the last reliable inspection, which has already expired.
- If, when sending a request, you entered the registration number of the document, it can be found in the database, but with a different VIN code and license plate number of the car, and the validity period of the MOT will not coincide with the paper one. This is explained simply: the attackers take the number of the original document of another car, but instead of its data they insert yours.
A reliable way to avoid fraud
To avoid unpleasant situations, you should check in advance the service station you intend to contact for accreditation by the Russian Union of Auto Insurers. To do this, just look at the “Register of Maintenance Operators” on the official website of RSA.
The register includes more than 4,900 enterprises throughout the country that have current RCA accreditation. Using a convenient filter, you will quickly find the nearest OTO operator. Here it is also possible to find out his address, contact details, full name. manager and category of vehicles served by the service station.
Self-verification of document authenticity
To check a diagnostic card by number in the EAISTO database, you can use various online services belonging to accredited OTO operators or insurance brokers. There are dozens of them on the Internet. Direct access to the EAISTO system is available only to OTO operators, MTPL insurers and traffic police officers. Each of them has its own level of access to maintenance data. In any online service, information is provided free of charge, but there may be restrictions on the number of requests.
The authenticity of the document can be determined by the vehicle’s VIN code, license plate number, chassis or body number, as well as by the 15-digit digital combination of the diagnostic card.
After entering any of these parameters, the system will provide information about the most recent maintenance.
Reasons why checking for technical inspection does not give results
Sometimes a motorist may encounter a situation where he is trying to find information about a diagnostic card, but the system reports that there is no information on it. This often causes panic among car owners. There may be several reasons for this situation:
- technical failure in the traffic police system (happens very rarely);
- service station employees did not provide information about new diagnostic cards;
- The maintenance coupon is invalid, so it simply cannot be in the database.
If the problem is on the side of the traffic police system, then car owners will find out about it quickly. This is reported in the news. As a result, the car owner only needs to wait until the problems with access to the database are resolved by specialists, and then try to check his inspection ticket again.
To find out whether a problem with the information arose due to the slowness of the service station operator, it is worth contacting representatives of the station where the motorist had his car checked and ask whether the data was transferred. After the information has been sent, after some time you need to check the maintenance again using the EAISTO database. They should appear.
Some motorists do not go to specialized service stations to have their cars checked, but purchase maintenance on the Internet from dubious sellers. But fraudsters do not have access to the traffic police database, as a result of which the website will not display information from the inspection tickets they sold. To avoid getting into an unpleasant situation when the diagnostic card is invalid, you should not be tempted to buy it online without undergoing a legal inspection.
