Berlin car sticker duplication?

October 21, 2009 6:56 AM

Berlin-Filter: mandatory car emissions sticker stuck in post...

I got a Feinstaubplakat for my parents who are visiting this week from Britain, driving over obvs., posted it but left it too late and it hadn't arrived by the time they left (the photocopy of it, posted simultaneously but separately, did). If I go back to the KFZ-Zulassungsstelle and explain (I have the Quittung) are they going to be willing/able to issue another, or can you not have 2 Plakate issued for the same car? Or should I not contact the KFZ-Amt at all 'cos giving them details of a car without a Plakat is asking for trouble? Or if we just have the photocopy laminated and in the windscreen and the receipt in the car will that satisfy the Beamte if the car gets stopped? Thanks!

posted by runincircles to Travel & Transportation around Berlin, Germany (7 answers total)

Not an answer, but a suggestion in case you'd like to cast your query-net a bit wider: while living in Holland I found the expat website Expatica (with sites for NL, DE, ES, etc) very helpful. In this case, I'd suggest this forum on their DE site.
posted by pammeke at 7:20 AM on October 21, 2009

Response by poster: Cheers, that looks good!
posted by runincircles at 7:49 AM on October 21, 2009

http://www.toytowngermany.com/ has an active berlin expat community as well! Unfortunately when I was there I never drove, so I can't do much more than point you in the direction.
posted by CharlesV42 at 7:56 AM on October 21, 2009

Response by poster: asked there, ta!
posted by runincircles at 8:08 AM on October 21, 2009

The last two years we took a hired car from the Netherlands to Berlin, so we didn't have the car papers before we went to Germany. Both times we just stopped at a local car dealer way outside of Berlin, paid 5 Euros (for a Cat 4, green one) and within 5 minutes we were on our way again. I don't know about issueing two plakatte for one car, but I would just take the car to any dealership and ask.
posted by PaulZ at 9:34 AM on October 21, 2009

Best answer: You will be able to get a second Feinstaubplakette but you certainly will have to pay for it again. Definitely forget about the idea with the photocopy in the windscreen. German authorities will never accept that.
posted by jfricke at 9:48 AM on October 21, 2009

Response by poster: nice one, thanks all. Will tell parents to stop at a place coming into town, and if not go the amt again.
posted by runincircles at 4:22 PM on October 21, 2009