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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.
expertmotorcheck.com
Issue 68
Motor / Trade — A field study
Expert Motor Checkon expertmotorcheck.com
expertmotorcheck.com is for the buyer who wants the working shown. Every finding names the register it came from and the date it was recorded, so the report can be argued with rather than simply believed. Expert motor checks combining DVLA, MIAFTR and finance data with AI risk scoring on every report. Read on for what each finding means in practice and where a check stops being enough on its own.
01 · TRUST
Data sourced from DVLA, MIAFTR, contracted stolen-vehicle data and the UK lender register at lookup time.
02 · TRUST
Typical lookup completes in under one second from the UK.
03 · TRUST
Built and supported in the UK as part of the consumer side of the network.
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Data protection and what a lookup reveals
A vehicle check returns information about the vehicle, not about people. Previous keepers appear only as a count and a sequence of dates; names and addresses are protected and are never returned. Your own search history is held against your account for support and dispute purposes and is not sold on.
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Coverage across vehicle classes
The lookup engine covers cars, vans, motorcycles and HGVs through a single registration entry point. The report adapts to the vehicle class returned by DVLA: van checks include plated weights, motorcycle checks include frame and engine number verification, HGV checks include operator licence and tachograph notes, car checks include passenger-vehicle specifics.
/ Brand consolidation
expertmotorcheck.com is now Expert Car Check
expertmotorcheck.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 expertmotorcheck.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to expertmotorcheck.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 expertmotorcheck.com
How is the risk score calculated?+
A weighted composite: 35% outstanding finance, 25% write-off markers, 20% mileage anomalies, 10% theft markers, 5% plate change pattern, 5% MOT advisory pattern. The weights are listed alongside the score in every report.
Why show the weighting behind a finding?+
So the result can be argued with. Printing the contributing factors and their weights lets a user see whether a position was driven by an open finance agreement or a single mileage discrepancy, and judge it accordingly.
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.
Can I download a PDF?+
Yes. The PDF is one page of summary at the top followed by the underlying detail for every flag. Designed to be shareable with insurers, brokers and solicitors without further explanation.
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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.