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freestolencarcheck.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. Free stolen car check against contracted UK stolen-vehicle data. Verify a UK reg isn't flagged as stolen. Everything below is written for the UK market specifically: UK registers, UK categories, UK law.
Data sourced from DVLA, MIAFTR, contracted stolen-vehicle data and the UK lender register at lookup time.
Typical lookup completes in under one second from the UK.
Built and supported in the UK as part of the consumer side of the network.
Run the first check before you travel, so a wasted trip costs nothing. Run a second on the day of collection, because finance can be drawn down, a theft report filed or a plate transferred in the days between viewing and handover. Two lookups on either side of a week-long negotiation catch changes a single check cannot.
The history record does not include unreported damage, cash repairs, modifications fitted between MOTs, or work undertaken under warranty without an MOT log. Treat history data as the public, verifiable trail; treat the seller's own service record and an in-person inspection as the private, unverifiable trail that fills the gaps.
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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freestolencarcheck.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 freestolencarcheck.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to freestolencarcheck.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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Read it as a maintenance record. Advisories that recur year after year suggest deferred work; advisories that appear once and disappear suggest the repair was done. The pattern is more informative than any single test.
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.
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.
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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