Courier for Car Dealerships – Spare Parts and Vehicle Documents Today
A car is on the lift and the part is missing: Maxmove collects spare parts from the parts wholesaler or manufacturer warehouse and drives them to your workshop as a direct drive. Plus vehicle documents and plates to the registration agent, wheels between sites and old cores back – at an instant price, with proof of delivery.
- Instant price before booking
- Live tracking on every drive
- Insured transports
Dealership parts logistics: when the lift is waiting for a part
At a dealership, parts supply decides how busy the workshop is. Regular deliveries come on the scheduled runs of the manufacturer's parts warehouse and the parts wholesaler. If a brake caliper, a sensor or a control unit is missing outside those runs, the customer's car sits on the lift, the courtesy car is out, and the next appointment slips. On top of that come drives that have nothing to do with parts: vehicle titles to the registration agent, plates back to the dealership, complete wheels from wheel storage, painted body parts from the body shop.
What goes wrong is rarely the driving. It is documents that vanish between two sites: a lost registration certificate Part II blocks any change of keeper until the official public notice period has run out. It is exchange parts whose old core does not go back complete or in the original packaging, so the core deposit is forfeited. And it is airbag modules or starter batteries that, as dangerous goods, do not belong in a normal courier transport.
Maxmove drives parts, wheels and documents as a direct drive from wholesaler, warehouse or registration agent straight to the dealership – no depot, with live tracking and a proof of delivery carrying signature, timestamp and photos. Fixed runs between your sites are set up as recurring orders and billed on a collective invoice.
What dealerships move with us
From the control unit for the waiting lift to the vehicle title – the shipments between workshop, wholesaler, sites and registration agent.
- Brakes, sensors and control units
- Exchange parts with core return
- Bumpers, doors and body panels
- Complete wheels and tyre sets
- Registration certificates Part I and II
- Number plates and registration papers
- Vehicle keys in a sealed envelope
- Accessories and retrofit parts
- Special and loan tools
- Sales contracts and finance documents
Three typical drives for dealerships in the Rhineland
Urgent parts, registration papers and inter-site traffic – what jobs between Cologne, Leverkusen and Düsseldorf look like.
Brake caliper for the lift in Leverkusen-Opladen
A customer's car is on the lift at a dealership in Leverkusen-Opladen, and the exchange brake caliper is at a parts wholesaler in Cologne-Porz. A car collects it and drives straight to the workshop. The second stop on the same order goes back to the wholesaler: yesterday's old core travels complete and in the exchange part's original packaging so the core deposit is credited. Both handovers are documented with a signature.
Registration papers to an agent in Düsseldorf
A dealership in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk sends the documents for six registrations to its registration agent: registration certificates Part II, powers of attorney, direct-debit mandates for vehicle tax and the insurance confirmation numbers. Everything is in a sealed envelope, and a car takes it straight there. In the afternoon, registration certificates Part I and stamped plates come back the same way. Every handover carries name, signature and timestamp.
Wheels and painted parts between two Cologne sites
A dealer group with sites in Cologne-Ehrenfeld and Cologne-Kalk stores customer wheels centrally. During the seasonal tyre change, a Sprinter brings the complete wheels booked for the day from wheel storage to Kalk every morning; on the way back it takes freshly painted bumpers from the body shop to Ehrenfeld. The wheels are labelled per customer, the painted parts wrapped in film and boxed. The run is set up as a recurring order.
Local courier service:KölnLeverkusenDüsseldorf
What needs settling for parts and papers
Vehicle documents, registration, dangerous goods, old cores and body parts: what your dealership prepares and what the driver takes care of.
Vehicle documents are security documents
The registration certificate Part II is a document with security features. If it is lost, section 14(5) of the German vehicle registration ordinance (FZV) requires the loss to be reported to the registration authority without delay; on application, the Federal Motor Transport Authority publishes a public notice with a deadline, and a new certificate may only be issued once that deadline has passed. So only hand over documents in a sealed, labelled envelope and name a specific recipient. The handover is documented with signature and timestamp.
Send registration papers complete
To re-register a vehicle, the City of Cologne, for example, requires registration certificate Part I, Part II as well for a change of keeper or plate, the keeper's ID, the insurer's electronic confirmation number, proof of the latest roadworthiness test and a direct-debit mandate for vehicle tax; with a representative, also a power of attorney and the representative's ID. The registration itself is done by your dealership or your registration agent. We carry the documents – if a page is missing, the driver cannot replace it.
Dangerous goods among spare parts
Some spare parts are dangerous goods under ADR: airbag modules, gas generators and seat-belt pretensioners (UN 3268, class 9), starter batteries filled with acid (UN 2794, class 8) and, as a rule, lithium-ion batteries from electric and hybrid vehicles. We do not carry dangerous goods that require labelling. State the type of parts when booking and have the wholesaler ship such parts through its dangerous-goods service; the rest of the order travels as a direct drive.
Return old cores and recover the deposit
For exchange parts such as starters, alternators, turbochargers or brake calipers, the supplier charges a core deposit. It is only credited if the old core comes back complete, not dismantled and without serious mechanical damage, usually in the exchange part's original packaging. Pack the core accordingly, add the return slip and add the return drive as a stop on the order. The photos in the proof of delivery show the condition in which the core was handed over.
Body parts, wheels and damage
Painted body parts need film, edge protection and a box – under section 411 of the German Commercial Code (HGB), that packaging is the sender's job. Label complete wheels per customer and position. In the vehicle, the driver secures wheels and parts against slipping and tipping as section 22 StVO requires. Under section 438 HGB, visible damage is reported at handover at the latest and concealed damage in text form within seven days; the photos in the proof help.
Which vehicle suits which part
In town, vehicle documents and plates can also go by cargo bike; otherwise by car with up to 100 kg – which also takes sensors, control units and brake parts. Complete wheels, bumpers and doors go in the compact van with up to 400 kg. Several wheel sets, gearboxes or assemblies on a pallet travel in the van with 900 kg or the Sprinter with 1,000 kg payload.
| Vehicle | Maks. težina | Euro palete | Maks. dimenzije tereta | Price | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CarOdgovara npr. Moving boxes, small furniture, classifieds pickups | 100 kg | – | 100 × 70 × 50 cm | from €79.86Base fare €18.90 | Book |
| Small VanOdgovara npr. Washing machine, armchair, moving boxes | 400 kg | 1–2 | 160 × 120 × 120 cm | from €94.05Base fare €29.90 | Book |
| VanOdgovara npr. Sofa, 1–2 room move, moving boxes | 900 kg | 2–3 | 270 × 160 × 130 cm | from €112.95Base fare €44.90 | Book |
| Large VanOdgovara npr. Wardrobe, 2–3 room move, bulky furniture | 1000 kg | 3–4 | 330 × 180 × 170 cm | from €130.05Base fare €54.90 | Book |
Published examples for Köln → Düsseldorf, weekdays at 10:00 (Berlin time). The binding price for your addresses is shown before booking.
Bigger, open-bed or heavier than 3 t? On request as a special run
How a drive for your dealership works
- 01
Create the order
Enter the pickup at the wholesaler or site, the workshop as destination, the part or order number and a contact person. You see the instant price and the earliest pickup window straight away.
- 02
Collection at the parts counter
The driver gives the order number, checks the quantity against the delivery note and takes over the parts, wheels or sealed envelope.
- 03
Direct drive with live tracking
Straight to the dealership with no depot stop. Service advisers and the parts desk see the arrival live and can tell the customer when work on the car continues.
- 04
Handover and return leg
Parts receiving signs in the app, and photos and timestamp go into the proof of delivery. Old cores or papers for the return leg are collected by the driver at the second stop.
Why Maxmove for Car dealerships
Urgent parts runs without detours
Every hour a customer's car waits for a part blocks a lift. You book the direct drive from the parts wholesaler or central warehouse straight to the workshop, see the pickup window in advance and follow the drive live.
Documents with a recorded handover
Registration certificates, plates and powers of attorney travel in a sealed envelope to the registration agent, bank or another site. Every handover is documented with name, signature and timestamp – important for documents whose loss triggers an official public notice.
Fixed runs between sites
Wheels from storage, accessories from a branch, paperwork to head office, old cores back to the wholesaler: recurring drives are set up once and billed to business customers on a collective invoice, on request with cost centres per site.