Find out what a car's history actually says.
Type any UK registration and see every MOT, every mileage reading, and every year the story goes quiet. Then add the paperwork and find out whether it holds together.
Free, and nothing to sign up for. Works whether the car is yours or you're thinking about buying it.
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Which side of the deal are you on?
Same record, same checks — it just matters for different reasons.
You're going to look at a car on Saturday. The seller has a folder of invoices and a good story. You have an hour, a torch, and no way to tell whether any of it is true.
Type the plate before you go
Every MOT it has ever had, its mileage drawn as a timeline, and any year the story goes quiet. Free, and you'll know more than the seller expects.
Photograph the folder while you're there
Point your phone at the invoices. Each one is read automatically and checked against the official mileage record — an invoice claiming 40,000 miles on a car that had already done 62,000 is caught on the spot.
Find out what actually goes wrong with this model
Every car has two or three failures that cost more than the car is worth to ignore. We look them up for this exact model and engine, then check whether this car's paperwork shows them done.
Walk in knowing what to ask
A report of what checks out, what's missing, and the specific questions worth putting to the seller before you hand over any money.
This is the opposite of an HPI check. Those tell you whether a car is stolen, on finance or written off — the floor. None of them can tell you whether the £14,000 of maintenance in that folder actually happened, or whether the one part that always fails on this model has ever been touched.
Buyer's reports are the next thing being built. The plate lookup works today.
Why this matters
When a buyer can't tell a well-kept car from a neglected one, they stop paying for the difference — and the owner who did everything right pays for it.
Economists have had a name for this since 1970. It's worth understanding, because it is the entire reason this exists.
The market for lemons