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vehiclecheckfree.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 vehicle check for any UK reg. MOT, tax, spec and HPI summary. Full report from £1.99.
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.
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Every recorded mileage figure from MOT records, plus any submitted at change of keeper, is plotted in date order. Drops are flagged. Implausible jumps are flagged. Long flat periods with no MOT may indicate the car was off the road and should be reconciled against any SORN declarations.
The check returns every MOT test on record: pass and fail outcomes, the testing station name where DVSA publishes it, the mileage figure entered at the test and every advisory issued. Repeated advisories on the same component across multiple tests, where the report shows no corresponding work, are worth raising directly with the seller.
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.
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vehiclecheckfree.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 vehiclecheckfree.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to vehiclecheckfree.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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A Statutory Off-Road Notification means the vehicle was declared as not used on public roads. A long, recent SORN can simply mean the car was laid up, or it can indicate post-incident storage. Reconcile it against any insurance markers found in the report.
No. Service records are held by garages and manufacturers, not by DVLA, and are not part of any HPI-style report. Ask the seller for the service book and look for stamped, dated entries with mileage.
The vehicle was first registered outside the UK and later imported. Imported vehicles can be entirely sound, but the absence of pre-import history is itself worth recording in the buyer's notes.
Every recorded mileage point — MOT records and change-of-keeper submissions — is plotted in date order. A drop of more than 100 miles between consecutive records, or a year with implausibly high mileage, triggers a flag.
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