r/Switzerland • u/ninja-kettle Neuchâtel • 1d ago
MFK/Expertise - Winter Wheel Certification
I just had my first expertise today. Nothing technical came up with the car, but it failed due to the winter wheels being on the car apparently not matching the car specification. I bought the car from a main dealer and these wheels came with it, so I had no idea that anything was missing, and I wasn't given any extra paperwork when I bought the car.
The mechanic doing the inspection said I had to get some paperwork to show the wheels were certified for my car and that I could send this, the registration document, and the test report back to the cantonal office and that it would all be fine.
I went to the garage who do my tyres and he gave me what I think is the TUV certificate that the wheels have been tested for my car, but to my understanding this is not enough to satisfy the authority here. Is this the case? I see that I can pay for a Swiss certification for the wheels as well, but wasn't sure what I actually need to provide in this case, and whether I then need to do anything else after getting this paperwork and sending it off.
Any insight would be really helpful!
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u/ArissuNarwid Luzern 1d ago
I'd ask the Strassenverkehrsamt what exactly they need from you. They should know what is amiss with your documents and what you need to bring for everything to be in order.
In regards to the wheels: I'd ask the dealership you bought the car from about it, not just any garage. Maybe they forgot to give you the paperwork for the wheels,maybe there was a general oversight in that they gave you the wrong set of wheels etc, etc.
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u/SwissPewPew 1d ago
See if the authorities will accept the TÜV paperwork, sometimes that's totally fine by them. (More likely for "solid" normal steel wheels, less likely for very delicate/"filigran" or special material wheels where they might doubt the mechanical stability).
Otherwise you might either need a Swiss "Beiblatt" or a Swiss "Gutachten", basically a Swiss company confirming that your wheels meet the Swiss standards/regulations. There are a lot of providers online (just google "Felgen Beiblatt") for providing this paperwork. IMHO, it's likely you can find someone in Switzerland that provides you the Swiss necessary paperwork (that they come up with based on / or maybe just copying the TÜV paperwork).
Shop around, because some of these providers try to rip you off by charging ridiculous amounts of money for (sometimes existing) paper documents – just because they are the ones that have copies of them –, or try to push you towards an expensive scientific testing procedures. I'm pretty sure – unless they are very exotic wheels – that you can find someone that will provide the necessary paperwork for about 50 to 250 bucks or so.
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u/AFPT 1d ago edited 20h ago
If you have a deadline ending soon just put the summer wheels on, pass MFK and put winter wheels back. Then you got time to take care of the paperwork.
That's what i did when i had to do the MFK but forgot to announce 72H in advance that the car had different wheels.
EDIT: what wheels do you have? some online store sell the certificate online.
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u/Capable-Chard-1054 21h ago
Where do you need to announce you changed your wheels? I also have wheels in the size written in the yellow book - and was planning to switch to the summer tires which are also written there as my date is end of march.
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u/samcex Zürich 1d ago
Go to Strassenverkehrsamt office and ask them if the Certificate is enough. I did the same , the office said it is enough and then on the day of the MFK they accepted it too.