Just checked my old car. It seems 80k disappeared off the clock after I sold it. lol

why is it a .net account instead of gov ?

I can't check any of my old cars :disappointed:
They've all be scrapped after I've had them lol

Correct for me, my insurance could use this, so now when I say I'm only doing 3000 miles or less they'll see I'm doing 6000+

wow makes me glad i sold my car when i did !!!

thank you

link not working

This site shows just what a load of rubbish the MOT test is.

Advisories are given for stupid things by garages trying to get work. My previous car i had for 9 years and things put as advisories one year disappeared the next despite not being addressed.
I recently sold it and know that the track rod ends are so bad they are causing severe tyre wear on one edge( i could easily move the wheel left to right showing its badly worn ). But i see it has gone through the MOT with it just as an advisory. But then it was sold to a car dealer ( funny how things pass for them that would fail for a private owner )

My current car has advisories for oil residue on engine ! ! . So what - its not leaking oil so why does this even need mentioning ( no doubt the garage was trying to get work that didn't need doing ).

Seems the car I had that was taken away to be scrapped is back on the road with a lower mileage.... The miracles of modern science :laughing:

cant even find my car

someone didn't take care of my old car. well I wouldn't say old. 2002

Reason(s) for failure

Registration plate lamp not working (1.1.C.1d)

Nearside Headlamp aim too low (1.:sunglasses:

Nearside Headlamp insecure (1.7.3)

Offside Headlamp insecure (1.7.3)

Nearside Rear Seat belt locking mechanism does not secure or release (5.2.5a)

Nearside Front coil spring fractured (2.4.C.1a)

Nearside Rear coil spring fractured (2.4.C.1a)

Offside Rear coil spring fractured (2.4.C.1a)

Offside Front Tyre(s) incorrect because different size tyres are fitted on the same axle. (4.1.A.1a)

Nearside Steering rack gaiter insecure (2.2.D.2d)

Nearside Rear wheel bearing has excessive play (2.6.2)

Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content at idle excessive (7.3.D.4)

Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle excessive (7.3.D.3)

Brakes imbalanced across an axle (3.7.B.5b)

Advisory notice item(s)

Nearside Front Brake pipe slightly corroded (3.6.B.2c)

Offside Front Brake pipe slightly corroded (3.6.B.2c)

Nearside Brake pipe slightly corroded (3.6.B.2c)

Offside Brake pipe slightly corroded (3.6.B.2c)

Nearside Inner Rear Brake pipe slightly corroded (3.6.B.2c)

Offside Inner Rear Brake pipe slightly corroded (3.6.B.2c)

Offside Outer Rear Brake pipe slightly corroded (3.6.B.2c)

Items removed from driver's view prior to test

battery.insecure

nearside.rear.tyre.outer.side.wall.damaged

Went for a walk today and thought I'd have a bit of fun with this. I was amazed by how many cars I came across with dodgy mileage. The worst one was an 03 plate white Astra. In 2013 its odometer read 141,182 miles yet the year later it went down to 107,000 :neutral_face:

OH dear my old golf which I sold in November 2008 at 161K has had a mot on the 18th of September 2015 with 88 K on the clock.....

Wish I had known about this site before my daughter bought her car! It failed miserably this year and if we had seen what it had failed on over previous years, we would not have got the car. Checked my car's details and all was correct.

Says for me that the service is currently unavailable?

My miles two are all over the place due to my private reg , so it appears the records stay with the plate and not the car

omg. my mot ran out last week. didn't get any letter or anything. best get it sorted!!!

heat for this reminder!!!!

Cool just checked on an old Corsa I traded in back in 2002 (it was 8 years old then) and it was still being MOT'd till 2008. Last MOT's basically said, it is rusting everywhere and has been welded all over. But currently has no holes :-)

Heat from me thanks :smiley:

I cannot see any MOT history, only the coming MOT Date and the car tax status.

Good to know.

It's ligit no doubt! It gives all advisories or most! Quite cool but dissapointed to see what previous owner failed on!!!!

What makes me mad is the person who bought it off me did'nt pay much for it ,he said it needs to much doing to it ,it's not worth repairing,and I will scrap it,yet he fixed it and sold it

Yes, but as I said, that is the dubious link, as it is a .net site. Read back through comments 1 to 5, you'll see that it was questioned right from the start.
For unknown reasons the official .gov. site doesn't have this information available for you to access, as noted in my last comment.

Can't find my Firetruck :confused:

the second link works fine for me

Good find heat added,thanks to the OP :wink:

No, in fact Im using that today as its BTTF day today

Not available for Northern Ireland cars

Thank you to those who have posted the working .gov link. Very useful and much appreciated.

Edit: Just read barginfan's comments. I used the 'dubious' link, but it did have my car's history. Not sure how someone can use those details. No doubt there is.

The official link. ..

https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history-vehicle

....still states the service is not available.

https://mot-history.net/ works fine, but is the dubious link.

Try again. I just checked mine with no problem. Don't see why its a deal when its free on a government website. Its been around as beta for a while too. The 'beta' will disappear when its vehicle database is complete and accessible.

Funny a car I sold for scrap,is on the road still.

states no legal mot history found from dvla

Just checked my old car. It seems 80k disappeared off the clock after I sold it. lol

That's annoying for me. I had a garage falsely fail my car. They then passed it when their mistake was pointed out. However, the fail is still on record according to this site.

You just made me realise my MOT expired a month ago... whoops! HEAT ADDED

Wow - this just saved me a trip down to London to see a van.
It's been MOT tested 3 times in the last year with no change in mileage and the fails were all for different things!

Very handy service. Wish this had been around 8 years ago. We'd had our car about 5 years when we got a random call from the police to let us know our car had been clocked just before we bought it. I thought we'd bought it just after it's 1st MOT, turns out it'd had an MOT a week previous to the one we were given and that had 90,000+ more miles recorded! The people involved were prosecuted but we'll not get any money back without suing and it's going to be more difficult to sell on now.

https://mot-history.net/
works for me

Very useful

Cool

This is a really good find: invaluable when looking at second hand cars to buy. I have used it several times recently and found it is generally much more accurate than the sellers!
Alan

Brilliant. Previously you needed the MOT number or V5 Document ref: to get this information. Makes searching for a new car safer. You can check the mileage history and MOT advisories. Thanks OP.

Nice. Me likey.

as mentioned in post #18 why not use https://www.vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk?

Thanks op, really useful, heat added.

Have bookmarked. Thanks!

Great find

That site was around a while back and got removed and all links are dead
Strange its back up and unavailable again
Was a very handy site

I have checked my cars. Shows when they have fail bit my car is fine after the repair and retest. Good site. Can see how much a car has been (roughly) maintained.

Great, just about to buy a van, it popped up all info, included today's MOT failure, I went to view it, was informed it was being MOT'd, bizarre, it's online so quickly. :stuck_out_tongue:

https://mot-history.net/ works though.

I checked one on the weekend, before I bought a used car; there was a notice up about the site being down for upcoming maintenance.

Thanks for posting this, I was going to post a comment saying this site was a pile of S*** as it showed my car had an extra 30K miles on it, however I looked at my certificate and found out that the garage I took my car too has entered the milage wrong...

Ops yeah, seems like it's under beta so once it's tried & tested I assume it'll be under a .gov domain.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/consumer-news/93157/new-website-lets-you-check-uk-car-mileage-and-mot-history-online

Which I assume will show here once out of beta:
https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history-vehicle

Seems odd, you can just check here
https://www.vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk

Looks good for me. Thanks for post!

Correct for me, my insurance could use this, so now when I say I'm only doing 3000 miles or less they'll see I'm doing 6000+

Accurate. Good find will be useful when buying a used car

mine was correct.

something weird here - site registered at the beginning of the month and the official .gov.uk website comes up with this -https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history-vehicle

Excellent! A car I just sold failed. Phew :smiley:

I was aware of more generic sites like http://www.motresults.com that cover basic stuff like common car colors

agree with beta comments. my car details correct, even had all the advisory comments.

its usually possible to check for free anyway on a .gov site but need either V5 or previous mot so still a hot vote from me

Searching that cured me of thinking about searching for one of my old cars. Who ever owns it now really has let it go to ruin. :disappointed:
I liked that car...

looks like it could just be a .net domain name pointing to the gov beta but hiding the gov betas URL

2 of my vans are on it, my car doesn't exist.

I expect it's a beta release that's somehow got into public hands. All the info is correct for me

I can't check any of my old cars :disappointed:
They've all be scrapped after I've had them lol

Just looked does seem legit actually.
Its run by
https://www.kainos.com/our-work/
Who do digital work for the government

I put an old car details in and it comes up correct. I have seen a similar site before.

Great find thx

Gov.UK

why is it a .net account instead of gov ?