New MOT history checker (Pass/Fail/Mileage/Advisories)

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There is a new government website which can be used to check the MOT history for vehicles.  You just need the car make and the registration number.

Information about previous Pass/Fail/Mileage/Advisories is displayed.  The info would be very useful when buying a second hand car. 

I tried the site for a few of my old cars and it came up with good information.  (I think it only displays data for the last 6-7 years though).

Here is the link: https://mot-history.net/

Here are a couple of other links about the new site also:

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

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-3279040/New-website-lets-old-car-road-today.html

 

 

 

 

 

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Little bit bothered by this - tried my 06 MX5 with correct registration and it came back as no trace !!!

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Sounds strange - worked OK for me so far for the cars I’ve tried…?!  Might it be something to do with a personal plate at all ?

 

 

 

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It might be a new URL (web address) but this online MOT history service has been available for several years.

You used to have to get the V5C document number or last MOT test number, which some sellers are reluctant to give out, but if viewing the car in person, you can note it down.

 

I see the new web site does not need this document number, which seems to me to be a serious violation of privacy.

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Nice and easy, all you have to put in is the registration and make and thats it. Tried it on my MK3 which was MOT’d today and its all in there.

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Not a private plate on my 06 car and according to the Check the MOT status on my vehicle site,my car does have a current MOT but I tried this new site again and it came back as no trace - so I’m at a loss to understand this !

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Tony, are you sure you`re using a zero rather than an o for orange in your request?

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The new site is showing as a Beta (or test) site, so maybe they haven’t uploaded all of the vehicle data yet ?

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Checked my present toy OK back to 2006 but two previous seem to have dissapeared to the great breakers yard sad

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My daily driver is an old Peugeot 406 HDI.

An acquaintance who’d sold his 406 3 years ago checked this MOT site to see the fate

of his ex-car.

 

Thoroughly disgusted to find that the car which had regularly cost him £300 to £400 to get through

each MOT, was now sailing through with hardly an advisory.

 

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I checked our car and discovered the VW’s MOT runs out on Friday… Ooops!

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Very helpful - thanks for the heads up.

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A very handy resource (no pun intended Karl).
Just used it to check a BMW Z1 seen on Wheeler Dealers earlier this evening. It’s currently SORNed and did 38 kms between it’s last two MOTs. I thought the 2500 miles on my 5 was low.

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What a load of rubbish!

My car in 2006 has 73,000mls and advisories for brake pads and cracked tyre walls.

Strange as my car was only built in 2007.

and it’s only got 44,000mls now, 9 years later.

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Very Interesting, but inaccurate.

I had a look at the past MOTs for the shopping trolley (shown as far back as 2006) and noticed a few years back that apparently it had a fail for all the indicators being the incorrect colour, and then a pass implying the garage had fixed them. I don’t remember that, but then my memory is flakey these days so I checked the service sheet for that particular occasion (and the year each side) and it simply sailed through with no problems, and certainly no expensive lamp clusters. And at the last MOT/service it had an advisory on an oil leak, but that is not shown on the website.

So the beta is definitely still work in progress.

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This is great as I have been looking for a while now for another 5 but older than my current daily, I have driven a few miles now only to be greeted with lots of rot.

I have just done a quick check on six cars for sale and some of them say they are mint which I may have been interested in but after the search I will not be driving to see any of them.

I will bet in future for sale adds that we will not be getting front or rear shots and numbers blanked out, I would like to add though that all the cars I did check were not on this forum.

I found it a useful tool.

 

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So if i put my car up for sale you wouldn’t even consider looking at it?

According to this MOT checker, my car 22nd October 2005 had 53,000mls and has failed two mot’s since.

My car has never even had an advisory against it, and i’ll stress again it was not registered untill 2007.

 

WHAT A LOAD OF INACCURATE RUBBISH, 

 

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This beta website is spot on in every respect with my other car that the wife principally uses which is a BMW Series I that was first registered in 2005. I would suggest that problems may arise when a car get’s swopped back and forth with different registrations plates. My BMW has had the same personal registration plate since when I first acquired it in 2008 at the time of it’s first MOT.

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Just being nosey I checked my old 5 that was condemned in 2011. It looked like another car. Also one year gap between a failure and the next MOT which it passed with another 13000 miles on the clock so something not right.
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