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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 trade-facing side of the network.
Northern Ireland vehicles are covered through DVA records. Digital MOT coverage before 2014 is thinner than for Great Britain of the same period, so an older NI vehicle may show a shorter test history than an equivalent mainland car without anything being wrong.
Work top-down: outstanding finance first, because it is the only finding that can cost you the car and the money. Then theft and write-off markers, which decide whether the vehicle is legally and commercially what the advert claims. Mileage, plate history and MOT advisories come next — they rarely end a purchase on their own, but together they tell you how honestly the car has been described.
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.
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vehicleanalyst.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 vehicleanalyst.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to vehicleanalyst.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
Usually the registration is mistyped, newly issued, held on an unassigned personal plate, or belongs to an exported or scrapped vehicle. The report distinguishes those cases where the record allows.
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.
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.
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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.