▸ Motor / Trade · UK Network
motorhpi.com is a trade-facing entry point to the UK vehicle registers. It assumes you already know what a Category S marker means and what an open finance agreement does to a deal, and gets out of the way accordingly. Motor History Check checks for UK cars, vans and bikes. Full finance, theft, write-off and mileage reports. What follows is the detail behind the lookup — sources, limits and the questions worth asking the seller.
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 trade-facing 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 lookup engine covers cars, vans, motorcycles and HGVs through a single registration entry point. The report adapts to the vehicle class returned by DVLA: van checks include plated weights, motorcycle checks include frame and engine number verification, HGV checks include operator licence and tachograph notes, car checks include passenger-vehicle specifics.
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.
/ Brand consolidation
motorhpi.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 motorhpi.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to motorhpi.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. 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.
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.
Theft and insurance markers are checked live. Registration detail is refreshed on a short cycle. Because records can change between viewing and collection, a second lookup on handover day is worth the cost.
Yes — the inspection booking is offered separately, with vetted UK independent inspectors covering all postcodes. The inspector is independent of the report and the costs are not shared.
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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.