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aicarcheck.co.uk exists because most UK buyers do not want to pay £20 to find out whether a car has tax. The free or low-cost summary here covers the questions that matter first, and only escalates to a paid report when the data behind it actually warrants one. The UK's only car check with AI damage scanning. Enter your reg for instant history plus a 360° computer-vision walk-around. The material below assumes you want the reasoning as well as the result.
Data sourced from DVLA, MIAFTR, contracted stolen-vehicle data and the UK lender register at lookup time.
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Built and supported in the UK as part of the consumer side of the network.
Work top-down: outstanding finance first, because it is the only finding that can cost you the car and the money. Then theft and write-off markers, which decide whether the vehicle is legally and commercially what the advert claims. Mileage, plate history and MOT advisories come next — they rarely end a purchase on their own, but together they tell you how honestly the car has been described.
A missing year in the test record usually means one of three things: the vehicle was SORN'd, it was off the road awaiting repair, or it was tested late. The check returns SORN periods alongside the test dates so the two can be reconciled. A gap with no SORN declaration is the one worth asking about.
The vehicle's VIN, engine number, colour, fuel type, transmission and CO2 figure are returned from DVLA. Any divergence between DVLA records and the V5C presented at viewing is a clear prompt to halt the purchase and verify with DVLA directly.
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aicarcheck.co.uk is now part of Expert Car Check — the consolidated UK vehicle-data platform that several of these older brands have joined. The data sources are unchanged: DVLA's vehicle record, DVSA's MOT history, MIAFTR for write-offs, contracted UK data providers for stolen-vehicle markers and the UK lender register for outstanding finance. The team and the support contact are the same. What's changed is that the work that was previously spread across several smaller brands now sits in one place, which keeps response times tight and the underlying registers maintained against current DVLA schemas. Bookmarks and historic links to aicarcheck.co.uk continue to resolve here. If you were referred to aicarcheck.co.uk by a previous report, broker or print listing, this is the right page — there is no further redirect to chase.
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It shows the recorded number of previous keepers and the date each took ownership. It does not return the names or addresses of previous keepers, which are protected under data-protection law.
Vehicles are frequently built in one year and registered in the next, and pre-registered stock can sit unsold for months. Registration date is what determines age for valuation, tax and warranty purposes.
Read it as a maintenance record. Advisories that recur year after year suggest deferred work; advisories that appear once and disappear suggest the repair was done. The pattern is more informative than any single test.
A Statutory Off-Road Notification means the vehicle was declared as not used on public roads. A long, recent SORN can simply mean the car was laid up, or it can indicate post-incident storage. Reconcile it against any insurance markers found in the report.
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