▸ Finance & Write-Off · UK Network
cardamagecheck.com sits at the heavier end of UK vehicle intelligence. Beyond the standard provenance flags, the report layers in risk scoring, mileage forensics and the kind of follow-on detail that an experienced inspector would normally have to compile by hand. Find out if a car has damage history before you buy. Insurance write-off records plus AI visual scanning.
Data sourced live from DVLA, MIAFTR, PNC and the UK lender register at lookup time.
Typical lookup completes in under one second from the UK.
Built and supported in the UK as part of the consumer side of the network.
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Every check on cardamagecheck.com sits alongside a working insurance shortcut. The four panels below route to specialist UK underwriters in the situations that conventional comparison sites either price badly or refuse to quote at all.
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If finance is flagged on the check, the practical next step is a written settlement letter from the named lender, dated within 7 days of completion, confirming the outstanding balance and the lender's discharge of the agreement on receipt of that balance. The buyer pays the lender directly for the settlement portion and the seller for any residual.
A Category S car (structurally damaged but repaired) and a Category N car (non-structural damage repaired) are both legally roadworthy and insurable once repaired and re-registered. The market discounts them, sometimes heavily, but they are not unsafe to buy if the repair is verifiable and a current MOT confirms compliance with construction-and-use standards.
The data shown here is pulled at lookup time from DVLA's vehicle record, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency MOT history, the Motor Insurance Anti-Fraud and Theft Register (MIAFTR) for write-offs and the Police National Computer feed for theft markers. Finance information is matched against the UK lender register. Nothing is cached for more than 24 hours, so a check run today reflects the record as it stood today rather than a stale snapshot.
/ Brand consolidation
cardamagecheck.com 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, the Police National Computer feed for theft markers and the UK lender register for outstanding finance. The team, the underwriting partners 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 cardamagecheck.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to cardamagecheck.com by a previous report, broker or print listing, this is the right page — there is no further redirect to chase.
Visit expertcarcheck.com →/ Common questions
Get a written settlement letter from the named lender, dated within 7 days of completion, confirming the balance and the lender's discharge on receipt. Pay the settlement portion to the lender directly, the residual to the seller.
V5C doesn't match the DVLA-recorded keeper postcode; seller can't show photo ID matching the V5C name; V5C serial doesn't verify with DVLA; asking price meaningfully below market; insistence on cash and a quick handover off the registered address.
Not necessarily, if the repair is verifiable and a current MOT confirms compliance. The market discounts it (typically 20-40% off equivalent unmarked) and any future insurer will load the premium.
No. Personal loans used to buy a vehicle aren't registered against the asset and don't appear on any HPI-style check on any service. The seller may have a personal-loan balance you can't see — but it doesn't affect your title.
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One field. A typical lookup completes in under a second, using the same UK vehicle records relied on by trade buyers and insurers.