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carhistoryinfo.com answers one question properly: what do the UK registers hold against this registration? DVLA, DVSA, the insurance write-off register and the lender register, returned in plain English with the source of each finding named. Car history information for UK buyers. Learn what's on record and how to read a vehicle's past. Below: how the underlying records work, and the points where a buyer most often gets caught out.
Data sourced from DVLA, MIAFTR, contracted stolen-vehicle data and the UK lender register at lookup time.
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Each registered keeper since first registration is returned with the date that keeper took ownership and the duration they held the vehicle. Short tenancies clustered around an insurance event, or a previous registered keeper recorded as a UK auction house, are useful prompts for further questions.
DVLA holds registration, keeper counts, VED and technical detail. DVSA holds MOT tests and advisories. MIAFTR is the insurance industry's own total-loss register. Stolen-vehicle markers come from contracted UK data providers, which aggregate insurer theft notifications and police-issued alerts. The finance position comes from participating UK lenders. Each finding in the report names the register it came from, so nothing is presented as fact without a source.
The date of first registration is not the date the vehicle was built. Cars registered in the first months of a year are frequently built the previous autumn, and pre-registered stock can sit for months. For valuation and for warranty timing, the registration date is what counts, and that is the date the report returns.
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carhistoryinfo.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, 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 carhistoryinfo.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to carhistoryinfo.com by a previous report, broker or print listing, this is the right page — there is no further redirect to chase.
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Previous keeper count and dates, full MOT pass and fail history with advisories, recorded mileage at every MOT, plate change history, SORN periods, import marker if applicable, and the recorded VIN, engine number, colour and fuel type from DVLA.
Usually a SORN period, a repair layup or a late test. The report shows SORN periods alongside test dates so the two can be reconciled; a gap with no SORN is the one worth asking the seller about.
Digital MOT records start in 2005 in England, Wales and Scotland. Older tests pre-date the digital register and are not retrievable.
Yes, through DVA. Digital MOT coverage before 2014 is less complete there than in Great Britain, so an older NI vehicle may legitimately show a shorter test history.
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