New rules for vehicle inspection

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration announces that from February 2019, vehicle inspection deadlines will no longer be determined by the last digit of the license plate. Instead, vehicles must be inspected within two years of the previous inspection. This means you can now have your car inspected much earlier than before, but the next inspection will still be due two years later.

If you have your car inspected within the last two months before the deadline, the next two-year period will run from the original inspection deadline, not from when the car was actually inspected.

Not everyone will get new deadlines in February 2019. Current deadlines will apply until the first time the car is inspected after February 2019.

In many ways, this is a more logical system. Especially for cars that have been deregistered and receive new plates between inspection dates, it makes much more sense that an inspection is now valid for two years, rather than just until the next scheduled deadline.

This is also a more flexible system since you can now choose to have your car inspected whenever it suits you, whereas previously you had to wait until there were less than 4 months remaining before the deadline.