The form a seller signs when the car goes to a dealership and the lender still has the title. It authorises the dealer to get the certificate out of the lienholder, to sign your name on it, and to transfer it into the dealership's name - which is a lot of authority to hand over on a single sheet, and worth reading before you do.
Written against 48-3200 (R04/25), issued under A.R.S. 28-2058.
This is the one form on this list where a seller signs away the right to sign. Before you do, get the payoff figure in writing from the lender yourself, so you know what the dealer is agreeing to pay and what is left over for you.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank 48-3200 from the apps.azdot.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual 48-3200, 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
A different seller and a different car from the rest of this state's pages, because this form only exists where a lender is holding the title. Look at the second half of the printed paragraph - that is where you authorise somebody else to endorse your name.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
Dealers only
Dealer Name and Dealer License Number
The dealership and its Arizona licence number, with a business phone and address.
Watch out: Take a photograph of that licence number before you sign. It is what identifies the business you have just authorised to sign your name.
2
You fill this in
Vehicle Owner Name and licence number
You, as the title records you, with a driver licence number or an EIN for a business.
Watch out: The legal status box beside it has four options here rather than three. Other is for the unusual ownership arrangements - a trust or an estate - and it will need supporting paperwork.
3
You fill this in
Owner address and phone
Where you can be reached while the dealer chases the payoff.
Watch out: Answer the phone. The commonest delay on these is a lienholder asking the owner a question the dealer cannot answer.
4
You fill this in
The second owner block
A co-owner, with their own licence number, address, phone and legal status.
Watch out: Two owners on the title means two of these blocks and two signatures at the foot. More than two means a second form, attached.
5
You fill this in
Vehicle Identification Number, Year, Make, Model
The vehicle being handed over.
Watch out: Check it against the registration you are about to hand across, because you are warranting that registration is the current one.
6
You fill this in
Lienholder Name, licence number or EIN
The lender holding the title, identified well enough for the dealer to contact them.
Watch out: Get the payoff quote yourself first. The figure the dealer verifies is the figure that comes off what you are paid.
7
You fill this in
The second lienholder block
A second charge on the vehicle, if there is one.
Watch out: Disclose it even if you think it was cleared. The warranty you are signing is that there are no liens except those disclosed.
8
Dealers only
Authorized Dealer Agent Name, signature and date
The person signing for the dealership.
Watch out: A dealership signature without a printed name is worth querying. It is the only record of who at the business took the car.
9
You fill this in
Vehicle Owner Name and Owner Signature
Print and sign, and a co-owner underneath.
Watch out: Once this is signed, a title that arrives in your post has to go straight to the dealer. Holding onto it is a breach of the agreement you just made.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
Dealer Name, Dealer License Number, Business Phone and Business Address
The dealership, identified by its Arizona licence number. That number is checkable, and worth checking.
Vehicle Owner Name, driver licence number or EIN, legal status and address
Two full owner blocks with phone numbers, for a vehicle in joint names. The legal status here carries a fourth option the other forms do not have: Other.
Vehicle Identification Number, Year, Make, Model
The vehicle being handed over.
Lienholder Name, licence number or EIN, legal status, address and phone
Two lienholder blocks, so a car with a second charge on it can be dealt with.
The payoff authority
Printed above the signatures: the dealer is hereby authorized to obtain from the above named lienholder any and all information necessary to verify the lien balance and to assure that the debt is paid and the lien is released.
The owner's four warranties
That the vehicle is free of undisclosed liens; that the owner sells and transfers it to the dealer; that the registration handed over is the original and most recently issued one; and that the dealer may obtain the title from the lienholder, endorse the owner's name on it and transfer it.
Authorized Dealer Agent Name, signature and date
The dealership's side of the contract.
Vehicle Owner Name and Owner Signature, twice
Your side, and a co-owner's.
What gets this one rejected
•More than two owners on one sheet. The instruction is at the top: attach additional forms if more than two vehicle owners.
•Any correction at all. Also at the top, in the same two lines: void if altered or erased.
•An undisclosed lien. The owner warrants the vehicle is free and clear of all liens and encumbrances except those disclosed, and a second charge that surfaces later is a breach of that warranty.
•Handing over a duplicate registration and calling it the original. The warranty is specifically that the registration delivered to the dealer herewith is the original and most recently issued registration for the vehicle.
•Signing it and then keeping the title when it arrives. The owner agrees to deliver the title to the dealer immediately if it is received.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It is only for a title the lender holds. ADOT's own description of the form is that it allows a customer to transfer their vehicle to a licensed motor vehicle dealer when the certificate of title is in the possession of the lienholder.
•The dealer signs your name, and that is the point. You are authorising the dealer to endorse the owner's name on the certificate. It is the closest thing to a power of attorney on this list that is not called one.
•Only a licensed dealer can use it. The form asks for a dealer licence number, and MVD checks it. A private buyer who produces one of these is not who they said they were.
•The plate is still yours. Nothing on this form transfers a plate, and nothing on it changes the thirty days you have to move, surrender or destroy it.
