The form that exists because a Minnesota title cannot be corrected with a pen. Its own opening line covers both halves of the problem: this form is used when information is printed incorrectly on a certificate of title or when alteration or erasure has occurred on the title. A wrong mileage figure, a sale date written over, a name misspelled by DVS - all of them come here, and the corrected title is issued fresh rather than amended.
Written against PS2025A (08/2026), issued under Minnesota Statutes 168A.10, subdivision 1.
Correct the title before the sale rather than after it. Once the certificate is in a buyer's hands a correction needs both of you back in the same room with your driver's licences, and the buyer's twenty days are running while you arrange it.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank PS2025A from the assets.dps.mn.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual PS2025A, rendered from the PDF the Minnesota Driver and Vehicle Services 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 correction to a mileage entry that lost a digit. Both parties sign, because instruction 4 requires every seller and every buyer to sign for a correction to an odometer or damage disclosure - and the odometer band above is left alone because the figure being fixed is described in words below it.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
The vehicle block
Vehicle identification number, year, make, model, title number and current plate number, copied exactly as they appear on the certificate.
Watch out: Instruction 1 says to complete the vehicle identification information as it appears on the current title - even where that information is itself the thing being corrected.
2
You fill this in
Decide which half you need
The odometer and damage band, or the three correction lines. Not usually both.
Watch out: A mileage entry can be fixed either way. Describing it on the three lines is clearer where the original figure is still legible; the band is for a reading being re-certified outright.
3
You fill this in
The incorrect line reads
What is on the title now, quoted rather than described.
Watch out: Copy the wrong entry character for character. A deputy registrar is comparing this line against the certificate in front of them.
4
You fill this in
The line should read
The correct entry, in the same form.
Watch out: One correction per form. Two unrelated errors described on the same three lines is how a corrected title arrives with one of them still wrong.
5
You fill this in
Explanation of error
How it happened, in a sentence.
Watch out: Plain and specific beats apologetic. A digit was omitted when the mileage was entered tells the reader everything; an error was made tells them nothing.
6
You fill this in
Seller's signature, printed name and licence number
The seller's row at the foot, with the driver's licence number beside the printed name.
Watch out: Where the correction is a name change, this is also where the new licence number goes - and if the licence has not been changed, a certified copy of the name change document travels with the form.
7
The buyer fills this in
Buyer's signature, printed name and licence number
The second row, for the buyer or applicant.
Watch out: On an odometer, damage or sale-date correction this row is not optional. Both parties certified the original entry and both have to certify the replacement.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
The vehicle block
Vehicle identification number, year, make, model, title number and current plate number, completed as they appear on the current title.
For corrected odometer/disclosure statements
The whole odometer band repeated: I certify that the odometer now reads ______ (no tenths) miles, with the three statements - actual mileage, in excess of odometer's mechanical limits, not actual mileage with its warning.
Damage disclosure statement
Has or Has not sustained damage in excess of 80 percent actual cash value, printed alongside the odometer band exactly as it is on the title.
For all other corrections
Three ruled lines and the whole substance of the form: the incorrect line reads, the line should read, explanation of error.
Tennessen warning
The data-practices notice, which on this form says something worth reading: you are not legally required to complete this form, but refusing may result in denial of the transfer of ownership or registration of this vehicle.
Seller's signatures and printed names
A row for the sellers, with driver's licence numbers beside the printed names.
Buyer's or applicant's signatures and printed names
The same row again for the buyers or applicants, with their driver's licence numbers.
The instructions above the form
Four numbered lines, of which the fourth is the one that catches people: all sellers and buyers must sign for corrections on altered sale dates, and for corrections on odometer and damage disclosure statements.
What gets this one rejected
•Sending it without the title. Instruction 2 is to attach this form, when completed, to the current certificate of title.
•One signature on a two-party correction. Correcting an altered sale date, an odometer figure or a damage disclosure needs every seller and every buyer, because those are the entries both of them certified.
•An explanation that explains nothing. The three lines are the incorrect line reads, the line should read and explanation of error, and a deputy registrar reads all three as one sentence.
•Using it for a name change without proof. Instruction 3 wants the new driver's licence number beside the owner's signature, and where the licence has not been changed, a certified copy proving the name change.
•Correcting a title that has been altered twice. At some point the certificate is beyond this form and a duplicate is the answer instead - a deputy registrar will say which.
•Filling in the odometer band on a correction that has nothing to do with mileage. The two halves of the form are alternatives, and completing both invites a question about which entry is actually wrong.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•Alteration and error are the same problem here. Minnesota treats a title somebody has written over as no longer valid, so the pen slip and the department's typing mistake come to the same form and produce the same result: a new certificate.
•The odometer half is a full disclosure, not an amendment. It repeats the reading, the three statements and the damage disclosure in full, because a corrected mileage entry has to stand on its own as a certification.
•Refusing to complete it has a stated consequence. The Tennessen warning says you are not legally required to complete this form - and then that DVS can find you in violation of the statutes on transfer of interest, and deny the transfer.
Every line here was read off PS2025A (08/2026) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Minnesota Driver and Vehicle Services pages.
This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ,
theirs governs.
