The Roads and Transport Authority, abbreviated RTA, is the principal autonomous government roads and transportation authority in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The RTA website serves as a portal to all online services for Dubai traffic, penalties, licencing, public transportation, registration, NOL, and transportation company.
Its primary goal is to construct and manage world-class integrated and sustainable roads and transportation systems, as well as to support Dubai’s vision by moulding the future, formulating laws and laws, and embracing technology, innovations, and world-class practices and standards.
Along with a variety of other services, RTA offers the service to renew your vehicle registration and ownership of a vehicle registered in Dubai. Here, we will present you with all of the information you need to know about the Process, Cost, Time Required, and Documentation Needed to Complete Each Renewal Procedure.
RTA Car Registration Renewal
This facility allows you to renew the ownership of your Dubai-registered car. This service is available to both individual clients and businesses.
If your car registration renewal deadline is approaching, there is no need to be concerned because car registration renewal in Dubai has become relatively simple. The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) provides all car owners with a variety of options.
Every year when your car registration expires, you have a grace period of 30 days to renew it. As a result, the Dubai car registration is fully valid for 13 months, including one penalty-free month. This is why car insurance in Dubai is valid for thirteen months. Car owners who do not renew their registration during the grace period must forfeit an AED 500 fee.
In addition, some drivers may have lost their driver’s licence, or their vehicles may be impounded for 7 days if their registration lapsed more than 3 months ago.
Procedure
So, if you don’t want to go through all of this, be sure you renew your car registration on time by following these simple procedures.
Pay your overdue fines
First and foremost, you must confirm that your car has no overdue fines. If there are any pending traffic penalties, you must first pay them. You may accomplish this by visiting the RTA’s official website or using the RTA Dubai app on your phone.
However, if you have any black points on your licence, you must go to the police station to get them removed before you may register your car.
Get your car tested
For the first two years, new automobiles are exempt from the test. As a result, any new automobile may take advantage of the twenty-four-month test-free period.
Following that, you must attend one of the RTA or ADNOC car testing sites to have your vehicle assessed and obtain the ‘passed certificate.’
The primary purpose of this test is to ensure that your vehicle is roadworthy.
Please keep in mind that if your vehicle fails a test, you must fix any damages before having it tested again. As a result, you will have to pay the test expenses once more.
This test costs 170 AED and takes between 20 and 40 minutes, depending on the number of consumers. Its validity is thirty days.
Channels of processing
You have the option of processing through any of the five channels.
• Website (www.rta.ae)
• Mobile application
• Self-service machines
• Providers of services
• Call centres (800-9090)
RTA Car Renewal online (Through Website or Mobile App)
You may quickly renew your car registration online from the comfort of your own home when you have successfully passed your car test and have completed all of the necessary documentation. All you have to do is go to the RTA’s official website or utilise the RTA Dubai App. To proceed with your application, you must provide legal proof of UAE residence as well as evidence of automobile insurance.
Then you must choose your car and pay the service cost via credit card, which is AED 350 for all light automobiles. Following the successful renewal of your car registration, a copy of the e-registration card will be provided to you at your registered email address. If you drive your vehicle outside the UAE, retain a paper copy of the e-registration card.
•The ownership certificate and sticker are delivered to the consumer via one of the following channels:
- At the Customer Happiness Centres in Deira and Al Barsha.
- By putting transaction data into self-service devices. The customer obtains the service via the self-service machine’s printer.
Self Service Machines
Machines for self-service
If the consumer opts for online services. The consumer can then select the desired service and inputs the vehicle’s information. He can obtain the ownership certificate and sticker from the self-service machine printer.
You may renew your automobile registration at one of 12 self-service machine locations.
- Customer Happiness Centre – Umm Ramool
- Customer Happiness Centre – Deira
- Customer Happiness Centre – Al Barsha
- Customer Happiness Centre – Al Manarah
- Customer Happiness Centre – Al Towar
- Customer Happiness Centre – Al Kifaf
- Tasjeel Al Tawar
- Barsha Tasjeel
- Muhaisna Shamil
- Tamam Vehicle Testing
- Al Qusais Tasjeel
- Wasel Belhasa
Service providers
The consumer can go to the service provider and presents the necessary paperwork. The company then inspects the car. The client is responsible for paying the service fees. And is then given the ownership documentation as well as the sticker.
The following are service providers in Dubai:
- Al Qusais Tasjeel
- Barsha Tasjeel
- Al Warsan Tasjeel
- Jabel Ali Tasjeel
- Hatta Tasjeel
- Al Tawar cars testing
- Tasjeel Discovery Gardens
- Al Aweer Tasjeel
- Tasjeel City of Arabia
- Al Satwa AutoPro Centre
- Al Mankhool AutoPro Centre
- Al Adheed Shamil
- Muhaisna Shamil
- Nad Al Hammar Shamil
- Shamil Al Qusais
- Al Mumayaz Cars Testing – Aswaq Mizher
- Al Mumayaz Barsha Mall
- Wasel Belhasa
- Wasel Cars Testing – Arabian Centre
- Wasel Nad Al Hammar
- AG Cars Vehicle Testing Centre – Deira
- AG Cars Vehicle Testing – Al Mamzar
- Al Mutakamela Vehicles Testing
- Tamam Vehicle Testing
- Al Yalayis Vehicle Testing
Contact Call Centre
The customer can reach out the number (8009090) to reach the call centre. The client can then request the renewal of the car ownership certificate. The fees must be paid by credit card. The consumer is notified of the temporary ownership through email. The certificate and sticker are delivered to the consumer via one of the following channels: o
- Through the Customer Happiness Centre in Deira or Al Barsha
- By putting transaction data into self-service devices. The customer obtains the service via the self-service machine’s printer.
Required documents
To renew your car, you must provide the following documents:
- Emirates Identification Card
- Driver’s License
- Renewal of Car Insurance Policy
- Previous Registration Card
- Certificate of Car Inspection (It should mention that your car has passed the test successfully).
Process time
- Online channels: 3 working days
- Self Service Machines: 5 minutes
- Service providers: 5 minutes
- Call centre: Instantly.
Average waiting time
- Online channels: instantly
- Self Service Machines: instantly
- Service providers: 5 minutes
- Call Centre: instantly.
Validity
- 1 year.
What you will get
- Vehicle ownership certificate
- Vehicle ownership registration expiry sticker.
Service fees for Car Renewal
The service fee applies according to the vehicle type and the commercial activity. Fee range between 120 AED to 1300 AED. But if the ownership has been expired for more than a year, the fees increase accordingly. Here is the detailed fee chart of the vehicles and their fee for renewal.
• 350 AED Light vehicle private/public
• 400 AED vehicle weighing between 3 and 12 tonnes
• 650 AED public vehicle weighing between 3 and 12 tonnes
• 800 AED vehicle weighing more than 12 tonnes
• 1,000 AED public vehicle weighing more than 12 tonnes
• 500 AED light mechanical equipment
• 800 AED public light mechanical equipment
• 800 AED heavy mechanical equipment
- Public heavy mechanical equipment worth 1,000 AED
• 120 AED trailer and semi-trailer • 300 AED bus seating 14 to 26 people
• 600 AED bus with more than 26 people • 200 AED motorcycle
• Knowledge and Innovation fees of +20 AED
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Re-registering Cost
If the ownership has been expired for more than a year, the following costs apply for re-registering:
- AED 400 Private/public light vehicle
- 500 AED Vehicle weighing between 3 and 12 tonnes
- 750 AED for a public vehicle weighing between 3 and 12 tonnes.
- 900 AED vehicle weighing more than 12 tonnes
- 1,200 AED A public vehicle weighing more than 12 tonnes
- 600 AED light mechanical equipment
- 800 AED public light mechanical equipment
- Heavy mechanical equipment worth 1,000 AED
- 1,300 AED Public heavy mechanical equipment
- 120 AED trailer and semi-trailer
- 500 AED bus, seating 14 to 26 people
- 1,200 AED bus with a passenger count greater than 26
- 200 AED motorcycle
- +20 AED Knowledge and Innovation costs
Fees for inspections
- A light vehicle inspection costs 150 AED.
- A heavy vehicle inspection costs 200 AED.
- A motorbike inspection costs 150 AED.
- A quad bike inspection costing 100 AED
- Inspection of light mechanical equipment for 150 AED
- Inspection of large mechanical equipment for 200 AED
- Re-inspection of a light car for 50 AED
- Re-inspection of a large truck for 75 AED
- 150 AED trailer and semi-trailer
- 100 AED export technical inspection
- 420 AED for a traditional vehicle technical examination
- + 20 AED for Knowledge and Innovation costs