Van & light commercial checks

Plated weights, commercial finance, MOT Class 7, conversion history and ULEZ compliance — the data points that matter when you're buying a UK van.

A van check is a car check with a different set of edge cases. Commercial finance is registered against the vehicle on different registers than personal HP and PCP. Vans over 3,000kg test under MOT Class 7 with fail criteria that don't apply to passenger cars. Conversions (refrigerated, dropside, tipper, Luton, camper) may or may not be recorded on DVLA depending on whether they were professionally type-approved. ULEZ and clean-air zone rules differ for vans.

The brands in this hub address those edge cases directly. Van HPI Check, Van History and Vanhpi run the standard provenance lookup but include commercial finance and plated weight verification. Van Stolen Check focuses on the elevated theft rates for Sprinters, Transits and Vivaros. Van Valuation and Free Van Valuation use commercial-vehicle benchmarks so 120,000 miles on a five-year-old diesel isn't penalised the way it would be on a passenger car.

Buy A Van Check wraps the whole pre-purchase workflow into a single report for private buyers who don't have a trade workshop behind them.