How to fill out Minnesota PS2025B

For when the car went to the wrong name entirely - a sale recorded in one spouse's name instead of the other's, a business rather than its owner, a buyer who backed out after the transfer was filed. It unwinds the record and re-records it, and it carries a deadline that catches people: to qualify for a refund, cancellation of a vehicle sale must be submitted within 90 days of the initial sale date.

Written against PS2025B (PS2025-B3, 8/26), issued under Minnesota Statutes 168A.10. This form fixes the ownership record, not a mistyped line on a certificate. A misspelled name or a wrong mileage figure on a title that went to the right person is the corrected-title application instead, and taking the wrong one to a counter costs a trip.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank PS2025B from the assets.dps.mn.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank PS2025B — Affidavit to Correct the Ownership Record of a Motor Vehicle PDF at assets.dps.mn.gov · new tab

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual PS2025B, 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

Minnesota form PS2025B filled in: a 2015 Chevrolet Equinox, VIN 2GNFLFEK7F6104782, title number MN4180937, plate KRV 418, recorded in error to Ravenscroft Fabrication LLC which signs itself out, corrected to Desmond A. Ravenscroft of Winona, the security agreement question answered No, an odometer reading of 132517 with actual mileage ticked, the damage disclosure answered Has Not, and Marit K. Solberg signing the seller band at the foot. — A transfer recorded to a business when it should have gone to the person who owns it. The incorrect buyer signs itself off the record, the correct buyer signs on, and the seller certifies the whole thing again at the foot - three signatures for one mistake.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
The buyer fills this in
The vehicle description
Year, make, model, vehicle identification number, title number and plate number.
Watch out: The form says this section must be completed in all cases, which is its way of saying that none of the three identifiers is optional here.
2
The buyer fills this in
The incorrect buyer's names and dates of birth
Exactly as they were recorded, in the second band of the form.
Watch out: Copy them off the wrong title rather than off what should have been written. The point of this band is to identify the record being undone.
3
The buyer fills this in
The incorrect buyer signs
Two signature rules and a date, releasing the vehicle from the name it was recorded in.
Watch out: This is the step that stops a correction dead. If the wrongly named party will not sign - a company that has been dissolved, a person who has fallen out with everybody - the route is a court order instead.
4
The lienholder fills this in
The lien release band
Secured party's name, city, state, zip, the authorized agent's signature, a date of release and a notary certificate.
Watch out: Only needed where a lien was noted against the incorrect buyer. It is the only notarised block on the form and it needs the lender, not the buyer.
5
The buyer fills this in
The correct buyer's details
Names, dates of birth, street address, city, state and zip code.
Watch out: If there are two of them and they want rights of survivorship, the conjunction between the names still matters here just as it does on the title.
6
The buyer fills this in
Security agreements
Yes or No, then the first secured party's name, the date of loan and the address if the answer is Yes.
Watch out: This is the correct buyer's lender, recorded fresh. A lien noted against the wrong owner is released in the band above, not moved down.
7
You fill this in
Odometer and damage disclosures
The reading in whole miles with one of the three statements ticked, and Has or Has not on the damage disclosure.
Watch out: Use the reading as at the original sale, not today's. This is a correction to that transfer, and a mileage figure from three months later describes a different event.
8
You fill this in
The seller's band at the foot
Seller's full name and signature, under the assignment warranting title and assigning the registration tax and vehicle to the persons named above.
Watch out: The seller signs even though the seller did nothing wrong. Without it the corrected record has no chain of ownership behind it.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Vehicle description	Year, make, model, vehicle identification number, title number and plate number - and the form says the vehicle description must be completed in all cases.
Section for the incorrect buyers	Their names last, first and middle, their dates of birth, their signatures and the date they signed. The people wrongly recorded have to sign themselves out.
Lien release for incorrect buyers	A whole notarised block: secured party's name, city, state, zip code, signature and title of authorized agent, date of release, and its own notary certificate.
Section for the correct buyers	Names, dates of birth, street address, city, state and zip code - the people the vehicle should have gone to.
Is this vehicle subject to security agreements?	Yes or No for the correct buyer, then first secured party, date of loan and address if the answer is Yes.
Odometer disclosure statement	The reading in whole miles and the three statements, repeated on this form because a re-recorded transfer needs its own certification.
Damage disclosure statement	Has or Has not sustained damage in excess of 80 percent actual cash value, beside the odometer band.
The assignment	I/we certify that this vehicle is free from all security interests. I/we warrant title and assign the registration tax and vehicle to the persons named above - the same warranty the title carries.
Sellers must complete this section	The last band on the form: seller's full name and signature, and a listed dealer's full name and signature where a dealer was involved.
The instructions	Two lines at the top: a titled vehicle also needs the sellers and correct buyers to complete the transfer and application on a PS2000, and a non-titled vehicle needs a PS2000 signed by the correct buyer.

What gets this one rejected

•The incorrect buyer refusing to sign. Their signature is what releases the record, and without it the correction is a court matter rather than a counter one.
•A lien on the record and no notarised release from the incorrect buyer's lender. The form's own note says so, and the release block on it has a notary certificate for exactly that reason.
•Sending it on its own. It always travels with a PS2000 - completed by the sellers and the correct buyers on a titled vehicle, or by the correct buyer alone on one that was never titled.
•Missing the ninety days. The refund window runs from the initial sale date, not from when the mistake was noticed.
•Leaving the vehicle description partly blank. The form says it must be completed in all cases, and that includes both the title number and the plate number.
•Skipping the odometer and damage statements because they were made once already. The corrected record needs its own, and the assignment band beneath them is what actually moves the vehicle.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•Everybody who touched the record signs. The incorrect buyer, the correct buyer and the seller all have a band of their own. That is what makes this an affidavit rather than an application.
•It is also the form for a cancelled sale. A transfer that should never have happened is unwound the same way, and the refund of tax and fees depends on the same ninety-day window.
•A notary is only in one place on it. The lien release for the incorrect buyer. Nothing else on the form is notarised, which is a useful reminder of how narrowly Minnesota uses notaries at all.

Every line here was read off PS2025B (PS2025-B3, 8/26) 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.

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How to fill out Minnesota PS2025B

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

The vehicle description

The incorrect buyer's names and dates of birth

The incorrect buyer signs

The lien release band

The correct buyer's details

Security agreements

Odometer and damage disclosures

The seller's band at the foot

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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