The windshield on both sides is broken, can the car be registered?

Checking the windshield is a mandatory operation when inspecting road motor vehicles.

The Giao thong Newspaper hotline received a question from a reader about a private car that broke and had a hole about 2cm in diameter in the right windshield due to a rock flying from the road. The registration deadline is coming up, will it fail the inspection?

A punctured or broken windshield on both sides is one of the major damages and defects, therefore, the car will fail the vehicle inspection (illustrative photo).

Regarding this issue, a representative of a vehicle inspection center said that a car windshield is a transparent layer of glass that is covered in the front, sides and rear of the car. The glass material has good resistance to protect people in the car from dust, heat, rain, or foreign objects when the car is moving at high speed.

In addition, the windshield also creates stability for the vehicle frame system, helping to protect the safety of the driver and passengers when suddenly encountering dangerous emergency situations.

Windshields can be cracked, punctured, or broken due to traffic collisions or being hit by hard objects, which affects its inherent function.

On the other hand, according to the provisions of the National Technical Regulation on automobiles, trailers, semi-trailers, four-wheeled motorized cargo vehicles in technical safety and environmental protection inspection (QCVN 122:2024), for windshields, if they are not complete, not securely installed; the front windshield is broken, cracked, affecting the driver's vision; the observed image is distorted, unclear; the side, rear and upper windshields are punctured, broken will be classified as a major defect or damage (MaD). Therefore, the car will be refused registration, the owner must fix it to bring the car for re-inspection.

The car of a Giao thong reader is one of the above cases of damage and defect. Therefore, to avoid failing the vehicle inspection and having to re-inspecte many times, the vehicle owner needs to fix the holes in the windshield on both sides first, then take the vehicle for inspection.

According to the representative of the inspection center, in the windshield inspection category, if the windshields on both sides, the rear and the upper side are cracked, they will only be classified as minor defects and damages (MiD). Therefore, when all the remaining inspection categories are passed, the car with this defect will still be granted a certificate and inspection stamp.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/kinh-chan-gio-hai-ben-bi-vo-o-to-co-duoc-dang-kiem-19225011615473496.htm