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Data sourced from DVLA, MIAFTR, contracted stolen-vehicle data and the UK lender register at lookup time.
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Keeper count on its own means little. Five keepers on a fifteen-year-old hatchback is unremarkable; five on a three-year-old car is not. Read the count against the age and the intervals, and treat any sub-three-month tenure as a question rather than a conclusion.
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.
Every recorded mileage figure from MOT records, plus any submitted at change of keeper, is plotted in date order. Drops are flagged. Implausible jumps are flagged. Long flat periods with no MOT may indicate the car was off the road and should be reconciled against any SORN declarations.
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carfreecheck.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 carfreecheck.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to carfreecheck.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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Yes. The PDF is shareable. A seller who raises an objection to a specific finding is a useful early signal in the negotiation.
A Statutory Off-Road Notification means the vehicle was declared as not used on public roads. A long, recent SORN can simply mean the car was laid up, or it can indicate post-incident storage. Reconcile it against any insurance markers found in the report.
No. Service records are held by garages and manufacturers, not by DVLA, and are not part of any vehicle history report. Ask the seller for the service book and look for stamped, dated entries with mileage.
Vehicles are frequently built in one year and registered in the next, and pre-registered stock can sit unsold for months. Registration date is what determines age for valuation, tax and warranty purposes.
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