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

triv88 · 19-08-2009 06:52PM #1

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 · 19-08-2009 07:02PM

:eek: thats a brilliant site thanks

Random · 19-08-2009 07:05PM

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

.Longshanks. · 19-08-2009 07:12PM

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

Jimbo · 19-08-2009 07:12PM

Thats brilliant.

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

Jenroche · 19-08-2009 07:12PM

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 · 19-08-2009 07:17PM

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 · 19-08-2009 07:29PM

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 · 19-08-2009 07:31PM

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

2qk4u · 19-08-2009 07:37PM

Very good, thanks...

hatetherain! · 19-08-2009 07:38PM

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 · 19-08-2009 07:44PM

nice one!!

Muckie · 19-08-2009 07:46PM

Brilliant find.

El Guapo! · 19-08-2009 07:48PM

Excellent site. Great find!!!!!

high horse · 19-08-2009 07:48PM

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 · 19-08-2009 07:51PM

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

MaxFlower · 19-08-2009 07:51PM

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 · 19-08-2009 07:57PM

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 · 19-08-2009 08:08PM

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 · 19-08-2009 08:13PM

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 · 19-08-2009 08:17PM

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! · 19-08-2009 08:17PM

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 · 19-08-2009 08:35PM

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 · 19-08-2009 09:03PM

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 · 19-08-2009 10:31PM

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 · 19-08-2009 11:08PM

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 · 19-08-2009 11:09PM

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

rccaulfield · 19-08-2009 11:10PM

Not just for cars-Everything with a reg!

Anan1 · 19-08-2009 11:41PM

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 · 19-08-2009 11:46PM

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 · 19-08-2009 11:51PM

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?

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

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