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Free Car Check: MOT, Tax and Mileage History
Check Any UK Vehicle Instantly. No Account, No Email, No Payment.
Just pop your registration into our free car-check tool and you'll get instant results, with no account, email or card needed. You'll see MOT status and history, tax status, mileage, make, model, colour and year, engine, fuel and CO2 details, ULEZ compliance and the V5C date, all in one place.
Free MOT, Tax & Mileage Check · No Sign-Up · Instant Results
- MOT status and full expiry date
- Road tax status and expiry
- Mileage from DVSA records
- Make, model, colour and year
- Engine size, fuel type, CO₂ emissions
- ULEZ compliance status
- V5C registration date
- Full MOT pass / fail history
Official DVLA & DVSA
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Why no sign-up?
We believe checking basic vehicle data should be free and frictionless. You shouldn't need to hand over your email address just to find out if a car is taxed. That's why we built Free Car Tax MOT Check differently.
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There genuinely isn't one for the free tier, and it's worth explaining why that's possible rather than just asserting it. The free check runs on the same public DVLA and DVSA APIs that GOV.UK itself uses to power its own vehicle tax and MOT checking tools, which cost nothing to query for basic lookups. We're not paying for that data, so there's no cost to recoup by making you sign up or watch ads. Where we do plan to charge is for a genuinely different tier of data — outstanding finance, stolen vehicle and write-off records — which comes from commercial industry databases with real per-lookup costs behind them. That paid tier is a separate, optional product, not a bait-and-switch on the free one.
The underlying data is identical, because it comes from the same source — we're not a competing database, just a different presentation layer on top of the DVLA and DVSA's own APIs. Where this differs in practice is convenience: rather than running separate lookups on separate government tools for tax status and MOT status, you get both together in one search, alongside vehicle details like engine size, fuel type and CO2 emissions that GOV.UK's basic checker doesn't surface in the same view. For a closer look at exactly what's included versus a standard GOV.UK check, see our DVLA check page, which breaks down the comparison directly.
This page is deliberately broad — a general-purpose free check covering the essentials. If you have a more specific question, there are dedicated pages built around single, focused topics that go into more depth than a general check can: is my car taxed for tax status and due dates specifically, MOT history for the full test-by-test record rather than just current status, SORN status for whether a vehicle is declared off the road, VIN check for verifying vehicle identity against paperwork, and ULEZ compliance for London's emissions zone specifically. Each one covers the same free DVLA/DVSA data as this page, just organised around the one question that page is named for.
What does a free car check show?
A free car check shows MOT status and history, tax status, recorded mileage, make, model, colour and year, engine size, fuel type and CO2 emissions, ULEZ compliance, and the V5C date, with no account, email or card needed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you can check my car with no account, email or card needed at all — just enter the registration and the tool returns MOT status and history, tax status, mileage, vehicle details, ULEZ compliance and V5C date from the same public DVLA and DVSA APIs used by GOV.UK.
Yes — you can check my car for free with no catch, as the free tier covering MOT status and history, tax status, mileage and core vehicle details stays free permanently with no account, email or card needed. It uses the same public DVLA and DVSA data that GOV.UK's own tools rely on, which is provided at no cost.
Correct. We don't ask for an email, phone number or payment method to run a free check. Just enter your reg plate and you'll see results instantly.
For free checks we record only the registration searched and basic anonymised analytics (page view, country). We do not link searches to a personal identity because we never collect one.
Free checks use the public DVLA and DVSA APIs. The optional paid history reports (finance, stolen, write-off), coming soon, will cover our partner data costs and keep the free tier free.
Most competitor sites use the free check as a lead-magnet to sell you something later. We don't — basic vehicle data should be free and frictionless.
No hard limit for normal use — you can check as many different registrations as you like. We apply basic rate-limiting only to prevent automated abuse, not to restrict genuine visitors.
No. The core check — tax status, MOT status and history, and vehicle details — stays free permanently. Optional paid tiers (Plus, Pro, Complete), coming soon, will add extra data like finance and stolen checks, but the free tier isn't a trial.
The free check shows: MOT status and full test history (every recorded test since 2005, including passes, failures, advisories and mileage at each test); current tax status and expiry date; make, model, colour and year; engine size, fuel type and CO2 emissions; ULEZ compliance status; and V5C registration date. Outstanding finance, stolen checks and write-off checks will require the paid tier, coming soon.
No. Checking outstanding finance requires access to industry databases from HPI and Experian, which carry a per-lookup cost and are not part of the public DVLA or DVSA data. Finance, stolen vehicle and insurance write-off checks will be available in the paid tier, coming soon.
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