A lot of buyers are complaining as well as doubting that they might have received a BS4 car from a dealer instead of promised BS6 car. How to check that out?
After 31st March, no manufacturer or dealer can register a new BS4 compliant car. From April 1, only a BS6 car can be sold in India. Most of the cars in India are BS6 compliant now and buyers have already started receiving their BS6 cars.
Amidst this, there are a couple of complaints and doubts going around. Buyers who have bought their new BS6 cars are getting confused if it is actually one. The salesman of a showroom told them they are getting a BS6 car, but still, buyers want to check personally.
One example includes a buyer who bought the BS6 Hyundai Venue. With this update, Hyundai also bought a tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS) on Venue. The customer complained that his relative bought a BS4 Venue a month back and even he got TPMS. So, he wants to check if he actually has a BS6 car or a BS4 car.
Another such complaint says that the salesman told him that he bought a BS6 car. However, once he got it checked from a service centre, it came to notice that it is a BS4 car indeed. Since it is a diesel car, he is worried and is not getting a response from the showroom either.
In such cases, you can use these methods to check out if you have a BS6 model or not:
Check The Registration Certificate
First things first. After you purchase a car and get all the documents cleared, you get an RC smart card. On that, you can check if the car is BS6 compliant or BS4 compliant. With most of the cards, you can see the compliance written beside the maker’s class or the model section. As you can see, it is written by Swift VXI BS 4.
Check RTO Form 21
To get a car registered, a compulsory and original Form 21 is submitted to the state RTO. On that document, you can check the emission compliance too. Either, you will have it written on the top along with the name of the car. Like in this case:
Otherwise, you can also check with a section named fitted with / fitted with compliance. There, it will be either written Bharat Stage 6 or BS 6 or Bharat Stage 4 or BS 4. Here is an example of that as well:
Check The Manufacturing Date
On both the documents mentioned above, you can check the manufacturing date of the car you have purchased. Then on the basis of that, you can look upon the internet as to when the production of the certain model began. Like for example, the production of BS6 Fortuner began on the last day of January 2020. So, if the car is manufactured before that date, it is a BS 4 compliant car.
Last But A Bit Difficult – Decode The VIN Number For Manufacturing Year
Still cannot check the Bharat Stage compliance? Those who are still to receive their car documents and want to check the compliance have one last option. It is a bit tricky but very easy to crack. Check for the VIN or Vehicle Identification number of your car. There might be an alpha-numeric code written. Look up online on how to decode a car’s VIN number. Based on that, you will get the manufacturing year and month. Voila! This is the safest and most assuring option to check if your car is BS 6 or BS 4 compliant.
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