The Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Physical Damage Appraiser license
Motor Vehicle Physical Damage Appraiser
Writes the estimate that decides what a damaged vehicle is worth putting right. Pennsylvania licenses no independent or staff adjuster at all, so this and the public adjuster are the only two claims licenses in the state, and this is the one the auto claim runs through.
Course
No count
A course is required and the regulator publishes no hour count for it.
Ways in
2
Every one of them requires the state exam.
Exam
Varies
Priced per paper. The prices are below.
Either combination is $55. Each single paper is $45.
Every way to qualify
More than one route leads to this license, and which one you take changes what you study and whether you sit the exam. They are listed in full because the course is only the first of them.
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Route 1 Complete an appraisal training program, then sit the paper
State exam required
Competency, by education or training
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A pre-licensing course in education or training related to appraising motor vehicle physical damage , completed within 3 years
and the examination
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The Pennsylvania motor vehicle physical damage appraiser examination, sat through PSI, which includes the act of appraising one or more damaged motor vehicles
31 Pa. Code 62.2(a)(1)(ii) is the second half of the alternative and it carries no hour count and no register: "Successful completion of education or training related to appraising motor vehicle physical damage taken within the previous 3 years."Nothing is approved in advance, so no school can sell a course that satisfies this as a matter of record; what a seller can sell is preparation for the paper, which is what sits on the course list below. The Department's own page states the same alternative in its own words: "6+ months continuous estimating experience or successfully completed an auto appraisal-training program within the last 3 years."
Read at pacodeandbulletin.gov on 2026-08-19
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Route 2 Qualify on six months of estimating work, then sit the paper
State exam required
Competency, by experience
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6 months a minimum of six months of continuous experience at an occupation, such as body repair, that directly involves the estimation of physical damage to motor vehicles, documented in writing , completed within 3 years
and the examination
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The Pennsylvania motor vehicle physical damage appraiser examination, sat through PSI, which section 3(d) of the act requires to include the act of appraising one or more damaged motor vehicles; an applicant who fails may not retake it for thirty days
31 Pa. Code 62.2(a) is where the numbers are. The act itself asks only that an applicant "establish to the satisfaction of the commissioner that he has had experience or special education or training with reference to the business of the appraising of physical damages to motor vehicles of sufficient duration and extent reasonably necessary to make him competent", which is the same sentence Washington, Hawaii and Idaho put on their adjusters, and the same absence of a number. The rule fills it in with two alternatives and this is the first. Section 3(b) of the act adds that an applicant must be eighteen and a resident of Pennsylvania or of a state that lets Pennsylvanians appraise there.
Read at pacodeandbulletin.gov on 2026-08-19
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Courses
This is the part you buy. 0 of the 1 products sold for this license satisfy the requirement above, and the rest are practice material. Each seller opens to what it holds and what each package costs.
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WebCE
Exam practice. It does not satisfy the course requirement.
$169.95
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PA Motor Vehicle Physical Damage Appraiser Exam Prep Complete Package
$169.95
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