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motorfreecheck.com is the cheap first pass. Enter a registration, see whether the advert matches the record, and decide whether the car is worth a journey — before anyone spends money on a full report or a tank of fuel. Free UK motor checks by registration. MOT, tax, mileage and provenance flags at no cost. The material below assumes you want the reasoning as well as the result.
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.
Trade users rarely check one vehicle at a time. Batch submission returns the same fields for a list of registrations in a single pass, which suits pre-sale catalogue screening and stock audits where the point is to surface the two problem entries in a hundred rather than read every report.
The same registration field handles cars, vans, motorcycles and heavy goods vehicles, and the report reshapes itself around the class DVLA returns. Plated weights and operator-licence notes appear for commercials, frame and engine verification for motorcycles, and neither clutters the report for an ordinary car.
DVLA holds registration, keeper counts, VED and technical detail. DVSA holds MOT tests and advisories. MIAFTR is the insurance industry's own total-loss register. Stolen-vehicle markers come from contracted UK data providers, which aggregate insurer theft notifications and police-issued alerts. The finance position comes from participating UK lenders. Each finding in the report names the register it came from, so nothing is presented as fact without a source.
/ 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, 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 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.
Yes — Northern Ireland DVA records are included, with the caveat that NI MOT digital records pre-2014 are less complete than GB records of the same era.
So the result can be argued with. Printing the contributing factors and their weights lets a user see whether a position was driven by an open finance agreement or a single mileage discrepancy, and judge it accordingly.
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.