Car Registration and Inspection

Vehicles are registered in the Icelandic Transport Authority Vehicle Register. All vehicles brought to Iceland must be registered and inspected before they can be used. This includes information on the make and owners of the vehicle, charges, etc.

A registration number is assigned upon registration, and the vehicle is cleared through customs and inspected at an inspection body. The vehicle will be fully registered once it has passed inspection and been insured.

The registration certificate issued to the owner once the vehicle has been registered, must be always kept in the vehicle.

A vehicle may be deregistered if it written off or if it is to be taken out of the country. Write-off vehicles should be taken to a collection facilities. After a vehicle has been deregistered a special return payment will be paid by the state.

How it goes:

• Owner of a vehicle returns it to a car recycling company
• The recycling company confirms it´s reception of the vehicle
• The vehicle is automatically deregistered by the Icelandic Transport Authority
• The Financial Management Authority of the state pays our the return fee to the owner of the vehicle

Information about car recycling companies and an application form for return payment, can be found here.

About the return fee for derigistered vehicles.

All motor vehicles must be regularly inspected by authorised inspection bodies. The sticker on your number plate indicates what year the next check is due (the inspection sticker on your number plate must never be removed), and the last figure of the registration number indicates the month in which checks should be carried out. If the last figure is 0, the car should be inspected in October. The inspection certificate must always be inside the vehicle.

Motorcycles should be inspected between 1st of January and 1st of July.

If observations are made in relation to the inspected vehicle, the issues indicated need to be addressed and the car taken back for re-inspection.

If vehicle tax or compulsory insurance has not been paid, the car will not be admitted for inspection.

If the vehicle is not brought in for inspection at the correct time, the owner/custodian of the vehicle is fined. The fine is charged two months after the time the vehicle was supposed to have been brought in for inspection.

Vehicle inspection:

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