Frequency of technical inspection– category “D” buses must be inspected twice a year. Having changed category “D” to “B”, the inspection must be carried out less frequently - once every two years for cars aged 3-7 years and once a year for cars older than 7 years...
Directions– in some places, trucks of category “C” are prohibited from entering the city center, driving across bridges during the daytime and other restrictions... In this case, changing the category expands the boundaries of vehicle movement...
Saving– when changing categories, the cost of insurance and transport tax rates in a particular region may differ. This difference is especially felt when the car’s power is high... By the way, regarding insurance, take out it immediately for a new category, no matter how expensive or cheaper it will be. If an accident occurs and it turns out that the insurance was not filled out correctly, the insurance company will refuse to pay and you will have to pay all the costs...
How to change the design and category of a car
Work to make changes to the design of the vehicle can be carried out by certified organizations or the owner of the vehicle. Companies without certificates and other craftsmen, such as Uncle Vasya from the neighboring garage, are excluded. In other words, you can only indicate a certified organization or yourself in the declaration application...
Of course, you can do the work in your neighbor’s garage and indicate yourself in the application, but it’s not that simple... Traffic police officers are reluctant to work with private owners, because they don’t want to take responsibility for the safety of the changes. For example, if the owner screwed the seat to the floor not as it should be, but with self-tapping screws, then in this case the inspector will be guilty of not paying attention. And when the conversion is done by a certified company, then it is already responsible for safety. Therefore, paperwork happens much faster and easier...
Our recommendation here is that if you have the skills to work with a car and a desire to save money, then you can carry out the work of dismantling the seats and other elements yourself, and outsource the installation work to a certified organization. And if during the time that you are tinkering with the car, you can earn more money from your main activity, then it is obvious that it is easier to turn to professionals and in the end receive a ready-made car and a package of documents...
Absolutely all vehicles are subject to a certain category (C, A, B or D). To determine whether a vehicle belongs to one type of classification or another, its technical characteristics, carrying capacity, number of seats, and actual weight of the vehicle help.
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Therefore, in order to convert a car from one category to another, it is necessary first of all to match its characteristics to the chosen classification.
Changes in the number of seats will only entail big problems when re-registering, passing a technical inspection, and registering the car.
The main goal after dismantling and all the work done is that the vehicle corresponds to the category that is written in the registration certificate. The process of making changes must be carried out in the prescribed manner.
What do categories “C” and “B” mean?
All vehicles are classified into categories depending on many components and technical characteristics of the car, engine size, weight, number of seats and many other features.
Category "C"
In other words, if you have a “C” category stamp on your driver’s license, then you need to drive trucks that are heavier than 3.5 tons and attach a trailer no heavier than 750 kg.
Drivers who have this category are prohibited from driving other vehicles (motorcycles, trucks or cars) that are lighter than 3.5 tons.
If you want to drive a vehicle with a trailer weighing more than 0.75 tons, you need to open the mixed “CE” category.
Category "B"
Category B includes all motor vehicles (except for motorcycles of category A) whose permitted maximum weight is not more than 3500 kg, and the number of passenger seats, not counting the driver’s seat, is not more than eight.
If category “B” vehicles are connected to a trailer, then its weight should not exceed 0.75 tons; if it is greater, then the actual weight of the vehicle together with the trailer should not exceed 3500 kg.
If you have a mark opposite “B” on your driver’s license, then you are allowed to drive all of the above vehicles that meet the specified requirements.
Subcategory “B” is category “BE”, which allows car owners to drive vehicles connected to a trailer that are heavier than 750 kg, but provided that the total weight of the car plus the trailer is no more than 3500 kg.
In what cases is it performed?
In order to reclassify a car from one category to another, it is necessary to change its characteristics, but why do this?
Why do car owners despair of taking this step and bother, collect documents, spend up to a week at the traffic police department, for what beneficial purpose?
The first and significant advantage is the frequency of technical inspection. Drivers of category “C” are checked for vehicle serviceability and damage twice as often as drivers of passenger vehicles.
The second positive point is the ability for trucks to drive through prohibited areas. Very often there are signs around the city that prohibit entry for cars weighing more than 3,500 kg.
Also travel across bridges and other places and areas of the city. By changing the vehicle category, you have more driving options and the boundaries expand
The price of an insurance policy directly depends on the category of the car, and the indicated prices on insurers’ websites clearly confirm this.
You will also have to pay more for a diagnostic card, because vehicles have more components than cars, they will take longer to check, and the cost is correspondingly higher.
As for insurance, it must be registered in a new, changed category.
After all, if the policy is filled out incorrectly in the event of a traffic accident, the legal institution will refuse compensation.
How much will it cost
Re-registration of a category is not a cheap procedure. Not only will you have to pay for the procedure and documents itself, but when you turn to accredited companies for help, you will also have to pay for their services and work.
The average cost of re-registration from “C” to “B” in Russia is as follows:
Package of necessary documents
In order to re-register a vehicle category, it is necessary to change the technical characteristics of the car and submit the following documents to the traffic police officers:
- registration certificate;
- registration certificate;
- MTPL insurance policy;
- application for re-registration;
- conclusion from the institute;
- application-declaration;
- passport;
- paid receipts for issuing a registration certificate, making changes to the registration certificate or replacing it.
Vehicle requirements
If your vehicle meets the above requirements, you can safely submit documents for re-registration of the car.
Separately, you should pay attention to the load capacity, installation and removal of seats, cutting out windows, removing partitions and other details that you or the organizations that will carry out the work will need to deal with.
Where to apply for re-registration
Understanding and understanding the procedure for re-registration of a vehicle is still half the battle. But how to change the design of the machine, where to go, where to start? Similar questions are asked on online forums every day.
There are two ways out of the situation. Specialized companies can make changes to the design of the vehicle and carry out the work of re-registering the car - the first way to entrust the work to professionals and masters of their craft.
The second option is to make changes to the design of the car yourself at home.
If you submit an application for re-registration of a vehicle, you will need to indicate in the declaration how the work was carried out - by you personally or by certified institutions.
You can also turn to your neighbor for help, who repairs cars and has his own service station, and indicate yourself in the application.
But you won’t be able to carry out traffic police work if they reluctantly take on the work of private traders or suspicious companies, citing the fact that they are not confident in the quality of the work and the safety of the changes.
When a neighbor screws the seats in the wrong way, the culprit will be the traffic police officer for overlooking it and not making a remark.
When an accredited company has provided you with refurbishment services, the organization is responsible for quality and safety.
Therefore, traffic police officers proceed to the “paperwork” without any special checks.
What to do in this matter is up to you and you should build on your capabilities.
If you are a good craftsman, you have been repairing vehicles for many years, you have acquired the skills and a professional look, then you can save a lot of money and carry out the dismantling work yourself, and entrust the installation to accredited companies.
If you are completely clueless about the upcoming work and can only rely on the help of a neighbor, it is better to entrust all the work to specialists and be confident in the result. And the time spent on the machine can be spent on work in the main activity.
On the Russian market there are many companies, centers and firms that specialize in vehicle repair.
Most of them dismantle the equipment and then install new parts into the vehicle when re-registering from category “C” to “B”.
Order
- The first thing you need to do is visit the traffic police department where you registered the truck and undergo an inspection before conversion. The inspector takes a couple of pictures and gives you the inspector's inspection report.
- Then we write a statement that you want to re-register the truck and indicate what exactly you will change (add the number of seats to 8, reduce the weight due to the suspension, etc.). It is signed and left at the MREO.
- Then you go home and re-equip the unit yourself or contact accredited organizations that do this work.
- You receive expert conclusions that the converted unit is safe and meets all requirements. It is issued by a company that has permission to do so.
- Then you visit the traffic police and an examination is carried out there, photographs are taken.
- Pay the state fee
- Then you are given an inspection report from MREO employees.
- We submit the pre-collected list of documents plus newly received papers and applications to the reception window.
- Then you are issued a new PTS with the “B” category indicated or with changes, and a new registration certificate.
The re-registration procedure is considered completed
Re-registration of a car category is carried out for reasons of saving money related to insurance and technical inspections, as well as the opportunity to drive through all areas of the city where vehicles of category “C” are prohibited from passing.
Firstly, a FINE is the least that an inspector can write you. In addition, for physical individuals, the fine will be 500 rubles, but for legal entities. from 30 tr. to 100 tr.! Secondly, the traffic police officer will issue you an ORDER to bring the vehicle into good condition. Because a vehicle with unregistered design changes is considered faulty (12.5.1). Thirdly, you will be given 10 days to bring the vehicle into “good condition”! What if it's an engine replacement? However, if you decide to ignore the instructions, then on your car REGISTRATION IS CANCELED. And this:
1. Wasting time- find out where you need to go and stand in queues;
2. Losing money- if this is your work machine, then the work will stop and you will be busy walking around the offices.
Failure of the vehicle owner to comply with the order to bring the vehicle into good condition will result in cancellation of registration. In addition, further operation of this car threatens the motorist with the confiscation of CP (plastic) and state license plates. With further detention and placing the car in a parking lot.
Russian legislation allows the conversion of cars. In this case, re-registration is necessary, because not only their “interior” changes, but also their category. The algorithm is simple; collecting the necessary information takes more time. This issue is also solvable: specialists who prepare and check the documentary base offer their services. The process of changing a category consists of several stages.
Step 1
Determining what type the car is. Category “D” includes vehicles with more than 8 passenger seats and a trailer weight of no more than 750 kg. Category “B” includes vehicles with fewer than 8 passenger seats and weighing up to 3.5 tons.
Step 2
application from the vehicle owner in the prescribed form regarding the change;
identification certificate and driver's license;
technical passport containing data about the car;
certificate of the date and place of registration of the car;
an act recording a full description of the scope of the re-equipment and a list of the transformations made;
conclusion confirming the fact of reconstruction;
photocopies of documents from the company (license or certificate) that performed the work;
diagnostic card required for issuing an insurance policy.
Step 3
After all the papers have been collected, you should contact the traffic police to re-register the vehicle from category “B” to category “D”. This does not have to be done at the place where the car is registered. Need to:
Give the completed application to a representative of the authorized body for signature;
The signed document is sent to the NAMI representative. His duty is to conduct an examination and give an opinion on the possibility of reconstruction and the sequence of its implementation.
Car diagnostics and obtaining appropriate conclusions is the next stage after conversion.
Having the necessary certificates, declarations, and diagnostic cards in hand, you need to contact the traffic police again to receive a certificate of compliance with the changes made.
Strict adherence to the sequence of actions and compliance with the requirements of the Legislation will allow the procedure to be completed successfully.
If installation/dismantling of equipment has not yet been carried out– you receive from us Conclusion of technical expertise, go to the traffic police (technical supervision department), there write an Application for the possibility of making changes to the design of the vehicle (obtaining permission from the traffic police usually takes up to 1 week). After you have a signed application with a positive decision, send us photographs (installed equipment, general view of the vehicle from 4 sides, manufacturer plates and VIN number), we will provide you with the remaining documents - Statement-declaration from the service, Diagnostic card And Technical examination protocol. With a complete package of documents, you go to the traffic police (technical supervision department), submit a complete package of documents and wait for a response from the Main/Regional Department in the form of a certificate of compliance of the vehicle design with safety requirements (SKTS) (receiving the SKTS can take from 1 week to 1 month, depending on the region). Having received the SKTS, you need to contact the traffic police (registration department (REO/MREO), usually they are located in the same building with the technical supervision department), there they will add marks to the PTS for the SKTS and issue you a new STS with marks (on the day of application).
If the equipment has already been installed/dismantled, the procedure is exactly the same!
Price for a complete package of documents: 12,000 rubles*
Turnkey price: 35,000 rubles*
Additional documents for equipment: DCT, certificates for components
* - When registering several types of re-equipment at the same time, the cost of the package of documents may increase
