Build date proof › Europe
Certificate of production and dating
A dating certificate almost certainly carrying a production date - it exists to satisfy French collection registration, which requires one. We have not seen the fields.
- covers
- Renault, Alpine
- issuer
- The Originals Renault Services
- cost
- EUR 75 per document, EUR 115 for the attestation and production certificate together, EUR 40 extra for express
- time
- 4-6 weeks standard, 2 weeks express
Build date
States when the car was built. This is the date every import rule is measured from.
What you have to supply
Not verified - the ordering page renders in JavaScript and we could not read the field list.
Who can order it
Renault and Alpine vehicles thirty years old or more.
Limits and gaps
The thirty-year cut-off is the trap. A car importable into the United States at twenty-five years is too young for Renault's own dating service for five more years - so a 1999 Clio V6 imported in 2026 cannot use it.
Notes
The age band 25 to 29 years is precisely the band this site's readers care about, and it is precisely the band Renault will not serve.
Partly confirmed - read the caveats issuer page · retrieved 25 September 2026
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The Build Date Proof Pack
This page tells you which document to order. The pack gets it ordered — and tells you what to do when the answer is that no document exists.
- A ready-to-send request for every archive, in the language it wants
- Exactly which numbers to photograph, and where they are on the car
- What to ask the seller for before you pay the deposit
- The fallback ladder when the manufacturer has no records
- What US, Canadian and Australian officials each accept as proof