How you ask ADOT to come and look at a vehicle it cannot otherwise identify. Arizona runs three levels of inspection and the form makes you choose one, together with the reason: an abandoned vehicle, a bonded title, a special construction or reconstruct, a mechanic's or landlord's lien, or a mobile home. Two of the three levels carry a fee and the form prints both.
Written against 46-4502 (R03/25), issued under A.R.S. 28-2011.
The inspection level is not a matter of preference. A restored salvage vehicle needs a Level III whatever anybody would rather pay for, and booking a Level I on a rebuilt wreck wastes an appointment that took weeks to get.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank 46-4502 from the apps.azdot.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual 46-4502, rendered from the PDF the Arizona Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division publishes and completed end to end: letterhead, every field, and the blocks at the foot.
Amber — you write it
Grey — not yours to fill
Numbered — explained below
The Vehicle Location line is the one that decides how this request is handled. A vehicle that can reach an office is inspected at the office; one that cannot is inspected where it stands, which takes considerably longer to arrange.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
Inspection Type
Level I, Level II at $20, or Level III at $50.
Watch out: Level I is the ordinary identity check. Level III is the salvage inspection and is done by ADOT Enforcement Officers at one of their own facilities.
2
You fill this in
The reason boxes
Abandoned vehicle, bonded title, special or reconstruct, mechanic or landlord lien, mobile home, or Other.
Watch out: Bonded Title is the box most private sellers need, because step 1 of the bonded title application is an inspection somebody has to arrange.
3
You fill this in
Name and Phone
Who is requesting, and a number that will be answered.
Watch out: The appointment is arranged by phone. An unanswered number is the commonest reason one of these requests goes quiet.
4
You fill this in
Address, City, State, Zip
Where the requester lives, which is not necessarily where the vehicle is.
Watch out: Keep the two apart in your head. The next line is the one about the car.
5
You fill this in
Vehicle Location
Where the vehicle physically sits.
Watch out: Be precise: a yard number, a unit number, a gate. An inspector who cannot find the vehicle records a failed visit rather than rescheduling on the spot.
6
You fill this in
Color, Year, Make, Model
A physical description of the vehicle.
Watch out: Colour is asked for first because it is what an officer sees before anything else. Give the colour it is now, not the colour it left the factory.
7
You fill this in
Remarks
A deep box for anything the inspector needs to know in advance.
Watch out: Use it. A missing door-jamb plate, a rebuilt front end or a locked compound are all things better said here than discovered on arrival.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
Inspection Type
Three tick boxes across the top: Level I - VIN Verification, Level II - VIN Inspection ($20.00 fee), and Level III - VIN Inspection ($50.00 fee).
The reason boxes
Abandoned Vehicle, Bonded Title, Special or Reconstruct, Mechanic or Landlord Lien, Mobile Home, and an Other line with room to explain.
Name (first, middle, last, suffix) and Phone
Who is asking. This is one of the few Arizona forms where the phone number is doing real work.
Address, City, State, Zip
Where you are.
Vehicle Location
A full-width line. Where the vehicle physically is, which is what decides whether an officer travels to it.
Color, Year, Make, Model
A description rather than an identification, because the whole point of the request is that the identification is in doubt.
Remarks
A deep free-text box at the foot for anything the inspector should know before arriving.
What gets this one rejected
•Requesting a visit for a vehicle that could be driven or towed in. The instruction at the foot is that vehicles that are operable or transportable must be brought to an MVD or Authorized Third Party office for inspection on a date and time specified by the office.
•Ticking no inspection level. The three levels do different things and cost different amounts, and MVD cannot pick for you.
•A vague vehicle location. An officer is being sent to an address, and a street name without a number is not one.
•Leaving the reason boxes blank. The reason decides which level applies - a bonded title and an abandoned vehicle are not the same enquiry.
•Expecting it to be free at every level. Level II is $20 and Level III is $50, both printed on the face of the form.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•Level one is an identity check. A.R.S. 28-2011(A)(1) describes it as matching the public vehicle identification number and a secondary vehicle identification number to the vehicle ownership documents to determine the identity of the vehicle.
•Level three is the one salvage vehicles need. ADOT's own salvage leaflet describes a Level III as a comprehensive inspection by Enforcement Officers verifying all major component parts - front and rear end assembly, motor, transmission and frame or chassis.
•Level three is the expensive one. ADOT prints the figure on the face of the form: Level III - VIN Inspection ($50.00 fee), against $20.00 for a Level II and nothing at all for a Level I.
•Inspections are by appointment. ADOT's instruction for a restored salvage inspection is that all inspections are done by appointment only, booked through AZ MVD Now.
