Enter a UK registration and pull the vehicle's official DVLA and DVSA record - make and model, MOT status and expiry, tax status, and the full MOT test history with advisories and recorded mileage.
Insurance records are held by the Motor Insurers' Bureau, not the DVLA, so they cannot be shown here. You can check your own vehicle free on the official askMID service.
Want to know what that history actually means?
The list above is the record. It does not tell you whether the car has been looked after. I read the same record the way I would if you rang me from the seller's driveway:
- Advisories that came back year after year and were never fixed
- Warnings that were ignored until they became MOT failures
- Corrosion wording getting worse, and whether it has reached the structure
- Mileage that does not add up, and what the next MOT will probably cost you
Free, no sign up. Official DVSA data, read by a working MOT tester.
Pre-MOT Checklist
These are the most common reasons cars fail their MOT. Check each one before you take it in - many can be fixed cheaply at home.
An OBD scanner is the single most useful thing you can have before an MOT. It lets you read and clear fault codes before the tester does - and see if any readiness monitors aren't set (which is also a fail).
