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

Signpost · 15-09-2009 12:38PM

rofl - the gf's 3 door pug is showing up as a 5 door with 3 seats

On closer inspection this seems to be a pug flaw in the system..!

teednab-el · 15-09-2009 11:46PM

Onkle wrote: »

I wouldn't take the colour of the letters to mean anything because so many people fiddle with them. Only way to know is checking the paperwork of the car

I checked the batch on the back boot of the car. It said 85kw.That is in between 110BHP and 115BHP, 113BHP to be exact according to wikipedia so I dont know.

Stargate · 17-09-2009 01:34AM

triv88 wrote: »

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/

Thanks so much , great find triv88 !!!

Stargate

SCOOP 64 · 25-10-2009 05:53PM

Will it do a finance check?

BArra · 25-10-2009 07:05PM

no it wont

SeanW · 26-10-2009 02:41AM

Nice find - MyWheels does indeed seem to be a good place to get basic info about a car.

Having bought my first set of wheels a few months ago, I clicked up a fair few Cartell reports. Decided to check some of them against free MyWheels reports and most of them agree.

But it's clear that Cartell provides more information - I remember one of the first cars I looked at was a '96, and then checked with Cartell, turned out it had been crashed and written off, used as a Taxi (possibly after it had crashed) and to top it all off, the odometer had likely been clocked. Oh, and the NCT was gone by six months and it hadn't been taxed since January. Given those standards, the taximan probably used washed diesel too.

Checked it with MyWheels and it only flagged it becuase it had been a Taxi ...

-Chris- · 26-10-2009 11:06AM

SeanW wrote: »

Nice find - MyWheels does indeed seem to be a good place to get basic info about a car.

I don't know how people can keep posting this, it seems to be an unreliable and inconsistent source of info, and wrong info is worse than no info in my opinion.

SeanW wrote: »

Having bought my first set of wheels a few months ago, I clicked up a fair few Cartell reports. Decided to check some of them against free MyWheels reports and most of them agree.

But it's clear that Cartell provides more information - I remember one of the first cars I looked at was a '96, and then checked with Cartell, turned out it had been crashed and written off, used as a Taxi (possibly after it had crashed) and to top it all off, the odometer had likely been clocked. Oh, and the NCT was gone by six months and it hadn't been taxed since January. Given those standards, the taximan probably used washed diesel too.

Checked it with MyWheels and it only flagged it becuase it had been a Taxi ...

Your own anecdote says that, if you had trusted MyWheels, you may have bought a car thinking "ah sure, it was a taxi, but it seems pretty straight" when actually you were buying a crashed, written-off, clocked taxi.

Marlow · 26-10-2009 12:01PM

Signpost wrote: »

I thought the 1 was reserved for lord mayor?

It is. And the lord mayor does not buy a new car every year. But checking 09-D-1, it actually comes up.

/M

VolvoMan · 26-10-2009 01:14PM

Marlow wrote: »

It is. And the lord mayor does not buy a new car every year. But checking 09-D-1, it actually comes up.

/M

Yes they do.

Marlow · 26-10-2009 01:23PM

VolvoMan wrote: »

Yes they do.

Maybe we should make them waste less tax money

/M

voxpop · 27-10-2009 11:35AM

HPI are the only service (as far as im aware) that actually give you a guarantee - I think it 30k if their info is wrong.

All the other site (cartell included) dont give any guarantee, which is a bit worrying considering the whole reason for using the service is to get reliable info about the car.

The finance check is pretty important - so I would use Cartell still. But this is a good screener, before the usual checks.
Has anyone found false positives - i.e. something that was marked as scrapped/written off/taxi but wasnt ?

Brabus · 27-10-2009 09:30PM

By the way, whats the record for most number of owners for one vehicle?
I accidently put in a wrong reg number and got a 97 VW Polo with 10 owners(in Ireland)!! "Import".
God only knows how many it had before it got here.:rolleyes:

cagy1 · 27-10-2009 10:29PM

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!

seemly NCT dont always notify you for to do the NCT and if you are stopped by the Gardai with an out of date NCT, the excuse that you did not get notified will not wash.
..... so be warned

garyt24 · 27-10-2009 11:22PM

Thanks for posting that site...

L1011 · 27-10-2009 11:26PM

-Chris- wrote: »

I don't know how people can keep posting this, it seems to be an unreliable and inconsistent source of info, and wrong info is worse than no info in my opinion..

The problem here isn't wrong info though, its not enough info. The info it gives is off the NVDF and if that is wrong, somethings seriously buggered up and is going to be wrong on Cartell and Motorcheck also.

People have to take its warnings as a baseline and not assume that things it doesn't warn about aren't also there.

Marlow · 27-10-2009 11:37PM

Brabus wrote: »

By the way, whats the record for most number of owners for one vehicle?
I accidently put in a wrong reg number and got a 97 VW Polo with 10 owners(in Ireland)!! "Import".
God only knows how many it had before it got here.:rolleyes:

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Ford/Fiesta/1.3-NCT-/200924193096164/advert?channel=CARS

Type in reg: 98WX3444 . 34 owners

/M

Macca3000 · 30-10-2009 04:03PM

Anyone know of a similar website to check UK reg plates?

Plug · 30-10-2009 06:24PM

op, brilliant site, only seen this now.

manutd · 30-10-2009 11:03PM

Thanks OP,brilliant site. Thanks.

CarDriver · 29-12-2009 02:26PM

You now have to pay €7 to get a report from this website. It is now Irelands lowest costing car history check site.

SpannerMonkey · 29-12-2009 02:41PM

CarDriver wrote: »

You now have to pay €7 to get a report from this website. It is now Irelands lowest costing car history check site.

Ya but problem is that the info provided is very innacurate so what extra are you get for your 7 euro

CyberGhost · 29-12-2009 07:14PM

Ah, the old switcheroo.

VolvoMan · 29-12-2009 08:26PM

CarDriver wrote: »

You now have to pay €7 to get a report from this website. It is now Irelands lowest costing car history check site.

You aren't in any way involved with this site are you? Because if you are, I have a bone to pick.:mad:

-Chris- · 29-12-2009 09:04PM

VolvoMan wrote: »

You aren't in any way involved with this site are you? Because if you are, I have a bone to pick.:mad:

Based on previous post history, I expect not.

@CarDriver & everyone - if you do have an interest in a company you're praising/slagging, please be sure to share it or there will be issues...

CarDriver · 30-12-2009 02:25PM

VolvoMan wrote: »

You aren't in any way involved with this site are you? Because if you are, I have a bone to pick.:mad:

God no im not! I merely observed what I saw. I was only on the stupid website trying to get the chassis number for my sisters car key so we can get a replacement key for it. The only key for it got bent when I was trying to open the petrol cap Christmas Eve and it now wont start the car. Stupid freezing weather! The log book has this code and I hust thought that that website would have had it.

-Chris- wrote: »

Based on previous post history, I expect not.

@CarDriver & everyone - if you do have an interest in a company you're praising/slagging, please be sure to share it or there will be issues...

Sorry Chris the way I found the website okay, well kind of.

smash · 30-12-2009 02:32PM

CarDriver wrote: »

You now have to pay €7 to get a report from this website. It is now Irelands lowest costing car history check site.

yea but the info isn't correct and there's still no mileage check!

CarDriver · 30-12-2009 02:46PM

steve06 wrote: »

yea but the info isn't correct and there's still no mileage check!

Yes I have learned of this. Is there any other decent site that could be recommended for this?

Yakult · 30-12-2009 04:14PM

Do you have to pay €7 for what was once a free check? Or has it been improved with more accurate and correct details and new features?

devil-80 · 06-01-2010 12:05PM

anyone knows free sites when you can check history of car?

Raiser · 14-01-2010 08:47PM

Can the title be edited please?

- This is now just free advertising for a service that recently lost its charm.......

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

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