You can book a pink slip online and pay for it online, and the result goes to Transport for NSW electronically. The inspection itself can’t happen online. An authorised examiner has to check the car in person, read its vehicle identification number (VIN) off the car and test its brakes, so a pink slip offered without anyone seeing the car isn’t a real one.
What you can do online
Everything except the inspection.
You can book a pink slip online. Our booking form takes your details and the car’s, shows the price for your suburb, and lets you pay online or in person on the day.
You get the result without any paper. Once the car passes, the result goes to Transport for NSW electronically, and a mobile examiner has to give you a copy of the report by email or text, or a printed one.
You can renew the rego online. Once the pass is with Transport for NSW and your CTP green slip (compulsory third party insurance) is sorted, you renew through Service NSW online or in the app.
Why the car has to be there
A pink slip says that one particular car met the Transport for NSW safety standards on the day an examiner looked at it. The rules examiners work under require the car to be there.
The examiner reads the car’s identity, including the VIN, off the car itself. They aren’t allowed to copy it from the registration papers, or even to ask you for the certificate of registration.
Every first inspection includes a brake test if it’s safe to do one, and a car can’t pass without it. At an inspection station, that’s a roller tester, a skid plate or a run on a nominated road. On a mobile inspection it’s a GPS brake tester on a suitable stretch of road, which does a pink slip include a road test? explains.
Mobile examiners enter every inspection in Transport for NSW’s R-Safety app, and the rules require photos in it: the car where it was inspected with its number plate showing, the odometer reading, and the brake test printout.
Then there’s the list of what a pink slip checks: tyres, brakes, steering, every light, the windscreen, the seatbelts, rust in the structure underneath. What can fail a pink slip goes through it, and none of it can be checked from a photo.
Who’s allowed to do a pink slip
Only an Authorised Inspection Scheme (AIS) station can do a safety check, and its examiners are accredited by Transport for NSW.
A station has AIS signs at the front of the premises, listing the inspections it can do. A mobile provider is authorised the same way as a station and works for one: its examiners are endorsed for mobile inspections, attached to an AIS station, and only inspect within 75 kilometres of it. They carry a Mobile Safety Check Approval Document from Transport for NSW and have to show it if you ask.
How to tell a real provider from a fake one
A few questions settle it quickly.
- Will someone inspect the car? If the offer is that you send photos and they send back a pink slip, walk away. No rule allows it.
- Which station do they work from? A mobile examiner is attached to a particular AIS station and stays within 75 kilometres of it.
- Will they show you the approval document? A mobile examiner has to produce it on request.
- Will they test the brakes? Every first inspection includes one when it’s safe to do.
- What does it cost, and what happens if it fails? You should know the price before you book, and what a second inspection involves.
The NSW Government’s page on mobile safety checks has a search for authorised providers near you. It’s the quickest check of the lot.
What a fake one costs you
An examiner who issues a report without an inspection breaks the rules they’re authorised under, and that can end in prosecution or action against their authority. For you, it means a pink slip for a safety check nobody did. If the brakes or tyres were worn, they still are, and you’re the one driving on them.
If a car fails a real inspection, you get 14 days to fix it and go back to the same station without a second inspection fee, which what to do after a failed pink slip explains.
How ours works
Our technicians come to the car at your home or work, inspect it there, test the brakes, and send the result to Transport for NSW once it passes. How a mobile pink slip works goes through a visit from booking to result.
If the rego is due soon, you can book now and see the price before you pay. If it runs out this week, we do same-day pink slips.
Quick answers
Can I get a pink slip online?
You can book and pay online, and the result goes to Transport for NSW electronically, but the inspection itself has to happen with the car. An authorised examiner checks it in person, brake test included.
Can I send photos of my car instead of having it inspected?
No. The examiner has to read the car’s identity from the car itself and test its brakes, and a mobile examiner photographs the car where it was inspected. A pink slip from photos isn’t a real inspection.
How do I check a mobile pink slip provider is authorised?
Use the NSW Government’s search for authorised safety check providers, ask which AIS station they work from, and ask to see their Mobile Safety Check Approval Document, which they have to carry and show on request.
Where these facts come from
- NSW Government, eSafety checks (pink slips) and vehicle inspections (opens in a new tab). Checked 26 October 2026.
- Transport for NSW, Light Vehicle Safety Check Standards (Section 2 of the AIS Rules) (opens in a new tab). Checked 26 October 2026.
- NSW Government, Find a mobile safety check provider (opens in a new tab). Checked 26 October 2026.
- Transport for NSW, Business Rules for Authorised Proprietors and Authorised Examiners (Section 1 of the AIS Rules) (opens in a new tab). Checked 29 September 2026.
- Transport for NSW, Supplementary Business Rules for Mobile Safety Check (Pink Slip) Inspections, March 2026 (opens in a new tab). Checked 26 October 2026.
