Motor / Trade — A field study
procarcheck.com exists for people who check vehicles for a living. Screening a catalogue before a sale, auditing stock or settling a title question takes a different workflow from a private buyer running one lookup a year, and this is the former. Professional-grade vehicle intelligence. DVLA, DVSA, MIAFTR and contracted UK data providers. Guided photographic inspection. Read on for what each finding means in practice and where a check stops being enough on its own.
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.
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.
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.
The PDF is written to be read by someone who was not present at the lookup — an insurer, a broker, a solicitor or a finance house. Each finding names its source register and its date, so the document stands on its own in a dispute without needing a covering explanation.
/ Brand consolidation
procarcheck.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 procarcheck.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to procarcheck.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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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.
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.
Cars, vans, motorbikes and HGVs through a single registration entry point. The report adapts to the vehicle class returned by DVLA so commercial-specific fields appear for commercials and bike-specific fields for motorcycles.
12 months for consumer accounts, for the duration of the agreement for trade accounts. Raw inputs are available on request for any dispute.
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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.