Motor vehicle inspection device, and motor vehicle identification method

The invention relates to a method for identifying a motor vehicle for a plurality of motor vehicle inspection devices (30, 31, 32), said method comprising the steps of determining a unique feature (21) of the motor vehicle, determining basic motor vehicle identification data (22), storing the unique feature (21) and the basic identification data (22) in an identification record (29) for said motor vehicle on a storage medium (20), having a first (30) of the plurality of motor vehicle inspection devices identify the identification record (29) for the motor vehicle on the storage medium (20) on the basis of the unique feature (21), reading the identified identification record (29) for the motor vehicle (1) out of the storage medium (20), determining first motor vehicle identification data (23) specific to the first (30) of the plurality of motor vehicle inspection devices, supplementing the read identification record (29) with the first identification data (23), storing the supplemented identification record (2