Check the car before the money leaves your hand
Three things sink used car buyers in this country. Finance still owing on the car, so the lender can take it back after you have paid. An insurance write-off that nobody mentioned. A mileage that has been wound back. All three are on the record, and all three take seconds to look up.
What comes back
- Outstanding finance recorded against the plate
- Stolen marker
- Insurance write-off, and which category
- Scrapped, imported or exported markers
- Number plate changes and previous keeper count
- The full MOT mileage story, with a warning if a reading goes backwards
Then what
Your report page keeps the result and puts your insurance comparison underneath it, so you can price the cover before you agree anything. You buy your own policy from the provider. We are not a broker and we do not advise which cover to take.
Buying more than one car this month?
The £10 Road Ready pack includes this check and then works the other way round: you set a budget and we find the cars, hourly, until one is on your drive.
MOT history is also free to look up yourself at GOV.UK. The finance, stolen and write-off search is the part you cannot do for nothing.