MOT history check

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MOT history check

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http://motinfo.direct.gov.uk/internet/j ... equest.jsp
I am sure that I may be the last to know about this, but for those that don't, you may find it useful.

With many, many cars being sold with no history the whole clocked mileage, hidden history thing is a bit of a nightmare........I found a 130k Passat TDi on one of the auction sites and it was cheap. Rang the owner, asked for history and he said he had a few MOT's but little else. I asked him for the MOT number and he paused..........gave me the number and I checked the details whilst he was on the phone. When the website confirmed it had done 194k at the last MOT five months ago, I thanked him for his time, gave him the good news and put the phone down :)

I hope you find it useful. I did :thumbs:
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Nope. New nothing about it. Bloody handy.

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Might this be one for an information sticky?
I spent ages looking for this a while back and still forgot to bookmark it.
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Done :)
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Post by Ian200sx »

Great this, 66k on clock lost history....... last mot 110k! saved me a trip, cheers
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Happy to help :thumbs:
I used this on the Mazda and it proved very, very useful :)
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i checked jaffa out and no records atall :) apart from when i mot'd it just over a year ago
the t4 all ties up with the milage and cool to see previous advisories etc..
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Cheers!

I checked my 200 out and they are all the MOTs I've had done on it.

Good way on checking my yearly mileage, did under 8k last year
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Yes, great tool. I only found out about it recently too.

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DJBB wrote:Cheers!

I checked my 200 out and they are all the MOTs I've had done on it.

Good way on checking my yearly mileage, did under 8k last year
Lol! I did under 800 in mine last year
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