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Here are some tips on how to clear your doubts regarding if your new car is manufactured with a BS4 engine or a BS6 engine.

Now that the BS6 emission norms are in process, all the cars manufactured will be BS6 compliant. No new BS4 car can be sold now. There were heavy discounts available on BS4 cars for the past couple of months. Up to Rs 50,000 worth of offers were available on small cars like BS4 WagonR, Grand i10 and such.

Recently, there were a couple of complaints done by new car buyers. They were saying that the dealerships told them it is a BS6 car but turned out to be a BS4 model. 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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