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Inspection booking
Where the report flags items that justify an in-person inspection, the service offers booking with vetted UK independent inspectors covering all postcodes. The inspection is independent of the report and the cost is not shared.
cheapmotorcheck.com
~/ecc/cheapmotorcheck-com — bash
$ ecc query --domain cheapmotorcheck.com --category motor / trade
Cheap Motor Checkcheapmotorcheck.com
› cheapmotorcheck.com 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. Cheap UK motor checks from £4.99. Full vehicle history including finance, theft and write-off data.
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Data sourced live from DVLA, MIAFTR, PNC and the UK lender register at lookup time.
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Typical lookup completes in under one second from the UK.
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Built and supported in the UK as part of the consumer side of the network.
/ Insurance shortcuts
Cover for the situation you're actually in
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1–28 day cover
Cheapest 24-hour UK car cover
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Quote stack sorted by lowest annual premium, with the conditional terms — excess, approved-repairer requirement, courtesy car — pinned beside each price so the cheapest isn't a trap.
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Audit trail
Every report you run is timestamped and stored against your account for 12 months, with the raw inputs available on request for any dispute. Trade accounts retain reports for the duration of the agreement.
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How to use this with the seller
If the report shows nothing of concern, ask to see the V5C in person and compare the VIN on the document to the one stamped on the chassis and printed on the dash. If the report flags something, raise it directly: a Category N write-off is not necessarily a deal-breaker, but a seller who claims a car has no history when MIAFTR shows otherwise is telling you something important about the rest of the conversation.
/ Brand consolidation
cheapmotorcheck.com is now Expert Car Check
cheapmotorcheck.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 cheapmotorcheck.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to cheapmotorcheck.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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Questions buyers ask about cheapmotorcheck.com
How long are reports stored?+
12 months for consumer accounts, for the duration of the agreement for trade accounts. Raw inputs are available on request for any dispute.
What does the lookup cover?+
Cars, vans, motorbikes and HGVs through a single registration entry point. The report adapts to the vehicle class returned by DVLA so commercial-specific fields appear for commercials and bike-specific fields for motorcycles.
Does this cover Northern Ireland?+
Yes — Northern Ireland DVA records are included, with the caveat that NI MOT digital records pre-2014 are less complete than GB records of the same era.
Is there an API?+
Yes — trade accounts get a callable API with batch endpoints for auction-lane workflows. Same data, same risk model, returned as JSON for integration into stock and bid-decision tools.
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Enter a registration. See the record.
One field. A typical lookup completes in under a second, using the same UK vehicle records relied on by trade buyers and insurers.