VIN inspection · Colorado

Getting your VIN inspected in Colorado

Colorado lets a private inspector do this, so you can hire somebody instead of asking the police for a favor.

Who Colorado allows

  • Licensed Colorado auto dealer
  • Licensed inspection station (Air Care Colorado)
  • Colorado law enforcement

Start hereLicensed auto dealer

When you book

Tell them the form is Montana's and that they'll be completing Section 2 of it. A dealer or mechanic who does VIN verifications for Colorado will recognize the job. Colorado's own version is DR 2698, useful to name on the phone, though the form they complete is Montana's MV20.

Use DR 2698, not DR 2704 - the latter is P.O.S.T.-certified law enforcement only.

What happens at the inspection

Whoever does it fills in Section 2 of Montana form MV20 by hand, in ink, standing at the vehicle, and signs it. You collect one document showing their name and department or license, take four photos, and mail the original back to us with the return label from your packet and one Forever stamp.

Read the step-by-step, including what not to let them write on.

Checked against Colorado's own form or titling page on 2026-08-26. If the rules have moved since, tell us and we'll correct it the same week.

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$20 opens your case and buys the prepared form. The $279 balance is charged only once your Montana title has been issued and is in our hands.