We register your car in Berlin for you – no trip to the registration office, no online ID card needed.
€150 all-in · Own plates: €120
With delivery, you pay once everything has arrived.
Phone and WhatsApp in English: daily 9am–10pm
New or used car: we pick up your documents and bring back plates and papers – in Berlin and up to 25 km beyond the city limits at no extra charge, government fees and both plates included. Online, we usually deliver the same day – daily until 10pm; via the office it takes 2–4 working days in our experience. Call or WhatsApp us in English.
Registering a car in Berlin costs €150 all-in, including both plates and government fees; own plates: €120. You don't need to go anywhere: photos are enough for a first check; we pick up the originals or do everything online, without an ID card with online function. Online, we usually deliver the same day; via the office it takes 2–4 working days in our experience. With delivery, you pay once everything has arrived – in cash or by bank transfer within 7 days of delivery; if we send plates by post, you pay by bank transfer before shipping (when and how you pay). We only start once you have explicitly agreed.
Not sure which way fits? Send us a photo of your registration certificate part II (Fahrzeugbrief).
For a new car, the Berlin authority asks private individuals for six documents.1 Photos are enough for our first check; for the way via the office, we pick up the originals.
For a deregistered used car, you need the registration certificate part I (Zulassungsbescheinigung Teil I, “Fahrzeugschein”) and proof of a valid general inspection (Hauptuntersuchung, HU, often called “TÜV”) instead of the COC.2
What you sign at pick-up: the application, the SEPA mandate and a power of attorney for us, including your written consent regarding the vehicle tax.3 Please sign exactly as on your ID card: in our experience, a different signature is one of the most common reasons the authority rejects an application.
Registering a car costs €150 all-in at Zulassungsheld, new or used; with your own plates it is €120. The government fee is included – for a first registration in Berlin, at least €30.60 on site and €22.22 online.1
We do it in one of three ways. Online: we do everything digitally, you don't have to go anywhere and you don't need an ID card with online function – photos and your digitally signed power of attorney are enough. Your bank holds the Fahrzeugbrief (part II)? See the bank question below.
For online cases with new plates. We bring plates, papers and the provisional proof of registration (vorläufiger Zulassungsnachweis) to your door – usually on the same day; we deliver daily until 10pm. Not a firm promise.
€150 all-in.
For online cases with your own plates: the provisional proof comes by WhatsApp, e-mail or as you prefer – no meeting needed.
€120, by bank transfer.
For cases that cannot be done online. We usually pick up the originals the same day, within 2–4 hours, and hand them in early on the next working day. In our experience, the office needs 2–4 working days, sometimes up to 7; we deliver on the day everything is ready.
€150 all-in, €120 with your own plates.
No meeting at all: on 5 October 2026, a customer first contacted us on WhatsApp at 2:43pm and had the provisional proof of registration as a PDF at 3:04pm. The customer lived outside our delivery area and had the plates made by a local plate maker (Way B, €120) and drove off at about 4pm (as reported by the owner of Zulassungsheld, 07.10.2026).
Via the office, it takes six steps – and you don't have to go anywhere:
You call or write on WhatsApp; we tell you which documents we need.
You send photos; we check that everything is there.
We fill in the applications carefully.
We pick up the originals, usually the same day, and you sign.
We hand everything in early on the next working day.
On the day everything is ready, we bring papers and plates, also in the evening. Then you pay.
Online (Ways A and B), there is no pick-up and no visit to the office. The authority sends the registration documents (Fahrzeugschein, the plate seals and, if needed, the Fahrzeugbrief) by post to the holder's address – for Berlin holders, according to the Berlin registration authority (Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten, LABO), usually within 7 days; we plan for no more than 2 weeks.4
A new car is registered for the first time; a used car was registered before – that decides the documents.1 2
A motorcycle costs €135 all-in with a new number plate, €120 with your existing plate; a trailer costs €135 all-in; a motorhome, truck or tractor costs the same as a car. Details in German: motorcycle registration · trailer, motorhome or truck.
5 out of 5 stars
„Wir wollten unser Auto online zulassen und haben den Zulassungsheld in Berlin gefunden. Hat alles super geklappt.“
Translated by us: “We wanted to register our car online and found Zulassungsheld in Berlin. Everything worked out great.”
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No. We hand in your documents or do everything online, so you don't need your own appointment. If you go yourself, you book one in the owner's name; the authority releases more short-notice appointments every day.1 7 In our experience, customers still sometimes wait 4 weeks: new appointments go quickly, and you have to take whichever one comes free, even if it doesn't suit you.
Yes. If the car is still registered, we re-register it to you; if the seller has deregistered it, we register it to you with a new Berlin number.2 From the seller you need the Fahrzeugschein, the Fahrzeugbrief and proof of a valid HU.2
The authority needs the Fahrzeugbrief.1 If your loan or leasing bank holds it, write to us – we tell you how it works in your case.
To do so, you must live in Berlin and be registered here; a second residence is not enough.1 You prove this with your ID or passport and your Meldebescheinigung.1 After moving into a flat in Berlin, you register your address (Anmeldung) at a citizens' office (Bürgeramt) within 14 days.8 If you have no residence in Germany at all, special rules apply, for example naming an authorised recipient in Germany (Empfangsbevollmächtigter).9
From our practice, four things come up most often. First, a signature that differs from your ID card: please sign exactly as on your ID; in our experience, this is one of the most common reasons the authority rejects an application. Second, eVB data that do not match your ID: for a used car, the owner details on your ID card must not differ from the eVB data, unless your insurer allows a different owner2 – even a typo at the insurer holds things up. Third, security codes rubbed off too hard: for online registration, the hidden codes on the documents have to be uncovered, on the Fahrzeugschein “completely and carefully”4; rubbed too hard, they become unreadable, and only the way via the office remains. Fourth, plates without the DIN mark: every plate must carry the DIN test and monitoring mark with its register number on the front10; in our experience, the office does not stamp plates without it. We emboss our own plates: tested to DIN 74069, certified by DIN CERTCO (reg. no. 1M13654/38) – plate embossing (in German).
Prices, times and process: information from Zulassungsheld, as of 07.10.2026; all prices include 19 % VAT. Review: Google Business Profile, as of 04.10.2026.
How we produce this information: Zulassungsheld states its own prices, times and process; times such as “2–4 working days” and practice notes such as “from our practice” are based on our experience, not on figures from the authority. Fees, deadlines and rules of the authority appear on this page only with a source and retrieval date. Found a mistake? Write to us at kontakt@zulassungsheld-berlin.de or on WhatsApp; we check it, correct the page and update the date.
Zulassungsheld (page as of ): over 5 years of experience in vehicle registration, according to its owner about 60 to 100 cases a month (as of 07.10.2026), self-employed since 2025 · How Zulassungsheld works and backs up its information (in German)
Want to register your car in Berlin? Call us or write on WhatsApp – in English.
We tell you which documents are missing, which way fits and what it costs. Phone and WhatsApp: daily 9am–10pm.
From a German phone: 0171 998 0551. No WhatsApp? Call us or send an e-mail: kontakt@zulassungsheld-berlin.de
Also in English: Re-registration after a purchase or move Deregister your car in Berlin English home page All contact options (German page with an English section)