How to remove the pledge or opposition on a vehicle?

Verified 20 February 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

If your vehicle is pledged or if there is an objection to the transfer of the Certificate of Registration (OTCI), you will generally not be able to sell your vehicle until the pledge or objection is lifted. Carte grise The method is blocked. Carte grise The purchaser will not be able to obtain a new order until the administrative situation of the vehicle has been regularized.

The procedure for regularizing the situation depends on the nature of the blockage.

Vehicle hired

If the vehicle is pledged, it is usually because you acquired it with a credit.

You must to have repaid the credit in full so that the financial institution may terminate pledge.

The CSA without mention of pledge can then be issued to you.

Please note

The leasing business may sometimes allow you to sell the car if the new owner agrees to take over the balance of the loan.

Objected vehicle

The procedure to be followed to end the blockage depends on the body that requested the blockage:

  • If a flat-rate fine plus has been issued against youHowever, this is an objection by the Public Treasury.
  • If the vehicle is listed in the Objects and Vehicles Reported File (FOVeS), formerly the Stolen Vehicles File (FVV), it is a legal objection.
  • If a seizure has been initiated against you, it is an objection by a Commissioner of Justice.
  • If your vehicle has been declared an economically irreparable vehicle (EV) or seriously damaged vehicle (VGA), this is an objection requested by a motor vehicle expert.

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Opposition by the Treasury

One flat-rate fine plus has been issued against you in one of the following 2 cases:

  • Carte grise Address shown on your
  • Failure to pay an initial fine received within 4 months of its dispatch

The lifting of the OTCI can only be done if all the fines have been paid.

The ICTO procedure interrupts the period during which the creditor may claim payment of the debt.

You must contact the Toulouse Fines Center. He or she may inform you about the situation of the vehicle(s) concerned by one or possibly several OTCIs. He will tell you the total amount to be paid.

Who shall I contact

  • Toulouse Fine Center

    By telephone

    +33 (0)5 40 13 08 80

    By email

    cas.toulouse@dgfip.finances.gouv.fr

Reminder

Carte grise carte grise The holder of a move must have the address changed on the move within one month of the change of domicile.

Judicial opposition

If your vehicle is the subject of a legal objection, it means that it is recorded in the Reported Objects and Vehicles File (FOVeS), formerly the Stolen Vehicles File (FVV).

As long as the vehicle is in the FOVeS, you cannot have the opposition lifted.

If the stolen vehicle is found, the FOVeS registration is automatically lifted as soon as your vehicle is returned to you.

Opposition by a Commissioner of Justice

If your vehicle is the subject of an opposition requested by a commissioner of justice (formerly bailiff and judicial auctioneer), this follows a seizure launched against you.

You then have to get a waiver from the justice commissioner, usually by paying the amount that he's asking you for.

Objection by a motor vehicle expert

If your vehicle is the subject of an objection requested by a motor vehicle expert, this means that the latter has declared your economically irreparable vehicle (EV) or seriously damaged vehicle (VGA).

You must then have a new assessment carried out (for example after the work on the vehicle has been carried out).

Who shall I contact

As long as the expert considers the vehicle to fall within one of these categories (VEI or VGA), the opposition cannot be lifted and the vehicle cannot be yielded only to a demoliser.

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