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› freevanvaluation.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 van valuation using live UK market data. Trade and retail prices for vans up to 7.5 tonnes.
Data sourced live from DVLA, MIAFTR, PNC 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.
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Most freevanvaluation.com visitors also need cover that an annual private-car insurer won't write — short-term van use, fleet additions, post-impound release. The four panels below cover the realistic cases.
Fully comprehensive cover from one hour up to 28 days on any UK van you don't own — borrowed for a job, collected from auction or moved across the country. MID-registered within minutes.
Get a day quote →via TempcoverLearner driverShort-term learner insurance for new and provisional drivers on a borrowed or family car. Claims are isolated to the learner's policy so the car-owner's no-claims bonus is protected.
Quote learner cover →via VeygoImpounded releaseStandard annual insurers routinely refuse impound cases. This is the specialist 30-day standalone policy every UK pound and police force accepts. Documents in minutes.
Quote impound cover →via Tempcover ImpoundedAnnual comparisonAnnual van insurance — own goods, hire-and-reward, courier or multi-vehicle small fleet. Pulled across the same panel of UK insurers used by major comparison sites.
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120,000 miles on a five-year-old diesel van is normal where the same figure on a five-year-old car would be high. The valuation and condition guidance in the report use commercial-vehicle benchmarks rather than passenger-car benchmarks so the headline figures are realistic for the segment.
London ULEZ, Birmingham CAZ, Manchester (suspended), Bath, Bristol, Sheffield, Tyneside and several other UK zones have separate compliance rules for vans. The check returns the emissions class and notes whether the van is compliant in each active zone today, with the caveat that zone rules change at short notice.
A clean check confirms that, at the moment of lookup, no UK insurer has filed a total-loss marker, no lender has registered an open agreement and no police force has reported the vehicle stolen. It does not confirm mechanical condition, repair quality, or work carried out in cash and never declared to an insurer. Treat the report as the legal and financial backstop to an in-person inspection, not a replacement for one.
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freevanvaluation.com now operates as part of Expert Car Check — the same van-friendly lookup, with the wider car, finance and insurance tooling layered alongside it. 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 freevanvaluation.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to freevanvaluation.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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The vehicle has been converted from its original body type — refrigerated, dropside, tipper, Luton or camper. Professional type-approved conversions are on DVLA records; homebrew conversions typically aren't and should be reconciled at purchase.
Maximum Authorised Mass — the heaviest the van is legally permitted to be when loaded. Driving over MAM is a licence offence and invalidates insurance. The figure is on the V5C and on the manufacturer's plate inside the driver's door.
For vans used commercially above 3.5 tonnes, yes — an O-Licence is required and must be valid for the route and the operator base. The check flags whether the chassis is currently registered against an O-Licence.
Vans over 3,000kg unladen weight test under MOT Class 7 rather than Class 4. The fail criteria include plated-weight markings and side-guards that don't apply to passenger vehicles.
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One field. A typical lookup completes in under a second, using the same UK vehicle records relied on by trade buyers and insurers.