Free online car history check (mod edit: not free anymore)

triv88

Might be handy to know if you are buying a second hand car.By entering the registration number if gives you information like how many previous owners the card had,whether it was crashed or not,if it was a hackney,when the tax /nct is due etc.Sorry if this is already posted somewhere.

www.mywheels.ie/

SpannerMonkey

:eek: thats a brilliant site thanks

Random

What's the catch? Seems like a great free service.

.Longshanks.

Good find. By the way it says this about my car;
Insurance Cost Category High:pac:

Jimbo

Thats brilliant.

Although it's saying my car is due an NCT since Jan 08.

Jenroche

Not sure if it's all that accurate. I just put my car reg in and it says it's had four owners. I'm only the second owner. :cool:

Jen ;->

Hal1

It flagged my car as having a large number of owners, when I'm the 3rd owner. All the other info is correct though. Thanks OP!

mickdw

Ive noticed before that all these car check sites record trade movements as owners so that part can be ignored really. Its spot on with all the cars Ive checked so far.

bladebrew

brilliant site!
cartell must be ****ting themselves dont they charge €40 to find out the same info??

2qk4u

Very good, thanks...

hatetherain!

Great site....told me I need to get NCT done on my car.....thought they notified you when you were due one???

Hubbies car details all correct!

chillywilly

nice one!!

Muckie

Brilliant find.

El Guapo!

Excellent site. Great find!!!!!

high horse

Nice find OP

Unfortunately i discovered from it that my first car has been scrapped (i loved that car!).
I sold it in september 2004 and it shows the tax due in october 2004. Could that mean that it was scrapped within a few months of me selling it?

Barr

I wonder how long before they start charging for this , great find btw

MaxFlower

Seems like a good site but I just tried a car I know to have been a taxi in the past and it came back as 'no'.

techie

Great find OP.

If I put in my current cars , both 07, it comes up with a Database error page?
My older cars work fine though???

Mycroft H

how long will it remain free :rolleyes:

is it a trail period and then next month they will start charging you a fiver a pop?

Gumbo

hatetherain! wrote: »

Great site....told me I need to get NCT done on my car.....thought they notified you when you were due one???

Hubbies car details all correct!

no, the onus is on the car owner to make sure the NCT is up to date.
better get it done or at least booked to avoid the risk of the fine and points.

great site OP.

steamjetjoe

Great site & will be very useful.

I done a random search on a car from carzone and it showed up as scraped, What do you guys make of this

El Guapo!

Ive entered a few regs from the garage I work and most of them came up ok but when I entered the reg of an X5 it said the reg was belonging to an Avensis??
So the site may not be 100% reliable.:(

chillywilly

http://www.mywheels.ie/VehicleDetails.aspx

this is cowans car isnt it? :P

EDIT: search doesnt come up....i put in 09 D 1

rainbowdrop

Great site, Thanks OP!! It came up accurate for the first car I owned. My second car was written off in a crash 6 weeks ago, a guy drove into the back of me (he still hasn't admitted liability grrrr:mad:). It's not showing up on that site as scrapped yet, even though I know for a fact that it has been. Probably too soon.
I just put a deposit on a '99 Astra today, to keep me going until the insurance money comes through, and will be going back to collect it on Friday. Must definitely check it out on this site. Just gota find out the Astra's reg first:p

triv88

Barr wrote: »

I wonder how long before they start charging for this , great find btw

Hope not,my first impression that it was for non profit but i only heard a minute of the discussion, posted thread 10 minutes after hearing guy talking about the site on rte 1 radio.Had to turn off but maybe someone else heard the rest of the discussion or could be available online shortly?

Eoin

chillywilly wrote: »

http://www.mywheels.ie/VehicleDetails.aspx

this is cowans car isnt it? :P

EDIT: search doesnt come up....i put in 09 D 1

I think that reg is reserved for the Lord Mayor's car

Cunning Alias

Wow thank you so much OP. Always thought this information should be available for free.

rccaulfield

Not just for cars-Everything with a reg!

Anan1

Random wrote: »

What's the catch? Seems like a great free service.

There's always the catch, isn't there? Well here it is: I just checked my old Forester, written off by my gf over a year ago and paid out for in full within a fortnight. Written off: NO. Scrapped:NO. No of owners:1 (incorrect, should be 2). Tax expiry March 09, NCT expiry May 09, though, which are correct.

Deano_J

The site is ok. Seems to get most things right, only part that worries me is that i wrote off my car in Decmeber and i was the first owner. Yet it says the car has had 4 owners and has not been wrote off. Slightly odd!!

Anan1

Deano_J wrote: »

The site is ok. Seems to get most things right, only part that worries me is that i wrote off my car in Decmeber and i was the first owner. Yet it says the car has had 4 owners and has not been wrote off. Slightly odd!!

That's two write-offs so far that the site would not have warned potential customers about. Surely the point of any check is that one should be able to rely on the information given?

JHMEG

Anan1 wrote: »

That's two write-offs so far that the site would not have warned potential customers about. Surely the point of any check is that one should be able to rely on the information given?

A couple of things: the site is only as good as the data behind it, and it's probable that someone else (ie the insurance co, or the Dept of Transport) hasn't done the paperwork as regards write-offs.

Other thing is, the site is free. You could probably pay another site to get the same (incorrect) info.

Anan1

JHMEG wrote: »

A couple of things: the site is only as good as the data behind it, and it's probable that someone else (ie the insurance co, or the Dept of Transport) hasn't done the paperwork as regards write-offs.

Other thing is, the site is free. You could probably pay another site to get the same (incorrect) info.

Those are both fair points, but they don't change the fact that the check appears unreliable. For someone considering buying my old Forester, for example, that check is worse than no check at all.

shaywest

great site everything i put in came up 100%
bye bye cartell!

confuzed

Grand ! all information on my car 100% OK.

Volvoboy

Excellent find!

Gary ITR

Anan1 wrote: »

That's two write-offs so far that the site would not have warned potential customers about. Surely the point of any check is that one should be able to rely on the information given?

I just checked my old work Caddy that was written off and it came back clean, only red flag was the tax being out since 2005

weeder

anyone fancy comparing somthing they know to be written off to the likes of a paid cartell report? or maybe everyone can chip in a few pence towards it

Senna

Strange, my car was imported last year, i just did a check on the next reg issues (eg, mine 00D2004, next 00D2005), its saying that the next reg'd car is not an import. How could it not be if the reg was only issued last year??

Lord Nikon

I have 5 owners, crap

robtri

jesus thats a great little site

MarkR

Two cars that I imported myself and eventually sold on are showing as having 5 owners. One is out of tax for 6 months, so it's either written off or off the road.

Very good site!

Skatedude

3 owners including the garage and an import,(didnt know that) not too bad for a 93 bmw740.
however, highest insurance and tax,(kinda guessed that one)

Interesting101

Good little site for a quick check but wouldnt hold results as gospel.

Like a few other mine returned the number of owners to be incorrect.

As others suggested i think the main reason people would use this site is to check if a car has been scrapped before they buy it.
We already have reports above of people knowing there car was scrapped and the site says it wasnt.

So i would be interested to see what the results compare to a paid check on a car what was scrapped.

ianobrien

I've inputted a car that I wrote off 2 years ago (the insurnace paid out), and it's saying that it wasn't written off, and that there was one owner (I was the second).

Other than that, it seems to be accurate

minxie

Everthing checked out on my current car

but flagged my previous golf as out of tax since i traded her and sold last year ...

R.O.R

I think the number of owners on this (and other sites) also takes temporary transfers to dealers in to account.

I've just checked my old car and it's showing 4. This makes sense if it's first owner, garage, me then new owner. When I bought it, the VLC showed 1 previous owner.

Excellent site - cheers OP.

saltie

Cheers for this! Hope it stays free for whenever i`m getting a new car - however long that will be

JMcCR

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bf

Good find OP, I am finding the same on write offs as other people- Subaru Legacy I had written off in 2005 is showing up as ok

Still good basic check for free!!

Tallon

Ive always used Cartel.ie but thats brilliant