The Ministry of Transport has just issued Circular 43/2023 amending and supplementing Circular 85/2014 regulating the renovation of road motor vehicles. Circular 43 takes effect from February 15, 2024.
Circular 85 stipulates that if cars and motor vehicles in general have changes that are subject to vehicle renovation, a renovation design file must be prepared, approved and accepted by a competent authority before a renovation certificate can be issued for the vehicle owner to carry out inspection procedures and register the license plate.
In case the car owner changes the lights, radiator grille or installs accessories that are not of the type that has been certified, changing the structure, shape, parameters, technical characteristics of a part or the entire system, the car will be refused inspection. Because this is considered a vehicle modification.
This is also the reason why recently many vehicle owners have been unable to register their vehicles just because of… faulty lights. Accordingly, vehicles that do not use the correct type of lights as stated in the original technical documents will be considered a major defect or damage.
Circular 43 has many revised provisions. Specifically, in cases where a motor vehicle is changed only in terms of interior and comfort, and not in terms of safety, it is not considered a modification. These cases include:
Change of passenger compartment door (excluding change of door position and size).
Change some cargo container structures such as: Sealing or changing the cargo container door structure; replacing flat corrugated iron sheets with corrugated iron sheets or vice versa.
Covering the roof frame of a covered vehicle does not increase the height of the cargo bed; installing or removing a dust cover for the cargo bed of a dump truck.
Install, replace or remove the cover for the cargo compartment and luggage of a PICKUP car (pickup truck) without changing the size of the cargo bed and the overall size of the vehicle.
Cars equipped with separate fog lights.
However, the Vietnam Register notes that replacing front lights must ensure the following principles: Replacement lights must be certified to comply with current standards; installing lights does not require cutting, drilling, welding... the vehicle body.
In addition, vehicles that change the design of some details of the body such as: front grille, spoiler; install additional wind hood on the roof of the truck cabin, steps, exhaust pipe decoration, decorative belts for headlights, signal lights without changing the outer size of the vehicle are not considered motor vehicle modifications.
Notably, all of the above cases are still inspected for technical safety and environmental protection of road motor vehicles to be granted Inspection Certificates and Inspection Stamps.
The reason the Ministry of Transport "unleashed" some of the above regulations is because Circular 85 regulating the renovation of road motor vehicles issued in 2014 has some shortcomings and is no longer suitable to reality.
Therefore, the Ministry has revised the circular to clarify the regulations on what constitutes motor vehicle modification; allowing the expansion of cases of modification without the need to prepare design documents to facilitate people and businesses; stipulating that many cases of changes only related to the interior and comfort, not related to safety, are not considered vehicle modification.
* Agreeing with the amendment in Circular 43, Dr. Khuong Kim Tao (former Deputy Chief of Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee) said that this change is timely, consistent with the general trend of other countries as well as reality.
Because manufacturers are always looking to improve their products over the years. Some older cars, manufactured 5-10 years ago, sometimes cannot find replacement equipment, including headlights of the correct type and original specifications.
* Using a Hilux pickup truck for the past 5 years, Mr. Nguyen Van Manh (Gia Lam, Hanoi) said that every time he goes for vehicle inspection, he often has to go to the salon to rent a cover to cover the rear cargo compartment. "I know that's just a way to pass the inspection, but I have to do it. When I bought the car, it didn't have a cargo cover. Therefore, I'm very happy because from now on I can go for vehicle inspection with peace of mind," said Mr. Manh.
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