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motorfreecheck.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 UK motor checks by registration. MOT, tax, mileage and provenance flags at no cost.
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.
/ Insurance shortcuts
Most people checking a vehicle on motorfreecheck.com need cover for it within the same day or week. Rather than send you back to a comparison site, the four panels below route directly to UK specialists for the most common short-notice insurance situations.
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For trade users, the lookup is callable via API with batch endpoints for auction-lane workflows. The same report data, the same risk scoring methodology, parameterised to return JSON for integration into stock management systems and bid-decision tools.
Where the report flags items that justify an in-person inspection, the service offers booking with vetted UK independent inspectors covering all postcodes. The inspection is independent of the report and the cost is not shared.
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.
/ Brand consolidation
motorfreecheck.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, 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 motorfreecheck.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to motorfreecheck.com by a previous report, broker or print listing, this is the right page — there is no further redirect to chase.
Visit expertcarcheck.com →/ Common questions
Yes — trade accounts get a callable API with batch endpoints for auction-lane workflows. Same data, same risk model, returned as JSON for integration into stock and bid-decision tools.
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.
Only where the manufacturer participates in a data-sharing scheme. Most do not, so the service record is best obtained from the seller's service book and verified at the issuing garage.
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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One field. A typical lookup completes in under a second, using the same UK vehicle records relied on by trade buyers and insurers.