Bought a car with a ban on registration actions

As practice shows, a car with a ban on registration actions can be bought not only from hand, but also in Trade-in salons. This suggests that both private buyers and serious organizations often neglect the simple rules for checking the legal purity of a vehicle.

What actions should be taken if you bought a car, and there is a ban on registration actions on it? It is impossible to register such a car, which means that you cannot drive it, at least legally.

Why impose bans on registration actions?

The very first step is to figure out why the ban was imposed. This concept implies the following: various executive services thus motivate drivers to fulfill their obligations. Obligations can mean a variety of violations or debts:

• debts on traffic police fines;
• debt on loans - mortgage or car loans;
• tax avoidance;
• in some cases, restrictions are imposed by a court decision in the analysis of various property disputes.

In addition, stolen vehicles that are wanted will be banned. Thus, the buyer, who finds himself in such a difficult situation, must first of all find out why the ban was imposed.

How to remove the ban?

We have already discussed similar topics on our website Vodi.su, for example, what to do if they don’t want to register a car. Having understood the reasons for the imposed encumbrance, you will know what to do next.

The situations can be divided into several groups:

• easily solved;
• potentially solvable;
• and those from which it is almost impossible to find a way out.

If you bought a car with a ban on registration actions, you can be recognized as a victim of fraud, since the ban is just imposed so that the previous owner does not have the right to sell it legally.

So, if the situation is relatively simple, for example, there is a small loan debt or unpaid fines, some drivers decide to pay them themselves, as they prefer to immediately spend a small amount in order to avoid endless lawsuits and appeals to the police. Such people can be understood, since they may need a car right here and now, and lengthy court proceedings mean that it is forbidden to use this vehicle for its intended purpose for a long time until a positive decision is made.

Potentially resolvable situations include those when the new owner has to prove in court that he fell victim to fraudsters, although he made every effort to verify the legal purity of the vehicle: by checking the vehicle on the official website of the traffic police or through the register of mortgage cars.

As we remember from previous articles on Vodi.su, there is Art. Civil Code of the Russian Federation 352, according to which the deposit can be withdrawn if the new buyer is in good faith and did not know about the legal problems with the car. This primarily applies to cars that are banned due to non-payment of loans. However, proving your integrity can be more difficult than it seems.

So, you will not prove anything in the following cases:

• there is no PTS on the car or you bought it with a duplicate PTS;
• the car was entered into the traffic police database for one reason or another: it is stolen, there are unpaid fines;
• unit numbers or VIN code are broken.

That is, the buyer must be vigilant and pay attention to all these aspects. Also, it is unlikely that the ban will be lifted if the sales contract is filled with violations or it contains false information.

Potentially resolved cases include those cases when you sue the seller and the court decides in your favor, and he is obliged to pay off debts to banks, creditors, single mothers (if he has alimony arrears), or he will have to pay overdue traffic police fines along with the running foam.

Well, unsolvable situations include those when the car is listed in the database of stolen vehicles and its previous owner has been found. In principle, this problem can also be solved, but a lot of money will have to be spent, so most drivers find it unprofitable. The only thing left for them is to contact the police and wait until they find the scammers who sold the stolen car.

Step-by-step instructions for removing the ban

Above we described more or less standard situations, but you need to understand that each case is special and it must be considered based on the circumstances. Nevertheless, it is possible to draw up a typical scheme of actions when it is discovered that a car you recently bought has been banned from registration.

So, if you arrived at the MREO traffic police, having with you the entire package of documents - DKP, OSAGO, your VU, PTS (or its duplicate) - but you are told that there is no way to register the car, you must:

• contact the traffic police department to obtain a copy of the decision to impose a ban on registration;
• carefully study it, and there may be several such decisions;
• choose a further course of action, based on the situation;
• when the situation is decided in your favor, you need to get a decision to lift the ban.

It is clear that a lot of time can pass between the last two points, but this is exactly what you need to strive for. In some cases, the buyer himself repays all debts, while in others he has to sue not only the seller, but also the authority that imposed the ban. Well, very often it happens that nothing depends on the deceived buyer, and you have to meekly wait for the decision of Themis.

We have already written in previous articles and now we strongly recommend that you carefully check all documents. Particular attention should be paid to the numbers stamped on the body and units. Use all available online verification services. You should be alerted by the sale of a car on a duplicate title. If there are serious doubts, it is better to refuse the transaction.

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