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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.
The data shown here is pulled at lookup time from DVLA's vehicle record, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency MOT history, the Motor Insurance Anti-Fraud and Theft Register (MIAFTR) for write-offs and contracted UK data providers for stolen-vehicle markers. Finance information is matched against the UK lender register. Nothing is cached for more than 24 hours, so a check run today reflects the record as it stood today rather than a stale snapshot.
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.
Each registered keeper since first registration is returned with the date that keeper took ownership and the duration they held the vehicle. Short tenancies clustered around an insurance event, or a previous registered keeper recorded as a UK auction house, are useful prompts for further questions.
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freevehiclechecks.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 freevehiclechecks.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to freevehiclechecks.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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Digital MOT records start in 2005 in England, Wales and Scotland. Older tests pre-date the digital register and are not retrievable.
It shows the recorded number of previous keepers and the date each took ownership. It does not return the names or addresses of previous keepers, which are protected under data-protection law.
No. Personal details of previous keepers are protected under data-protection law and are never returned. The report gives the number of keepers and the date of each change, which is what matters for assessing the vehicle.
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.
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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.