History checks

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A history check is the cheapest insurance in used-car buying. Before you view a car, run its registration: the check pulls the vehicle's recorded history from finance, insurance and DVLA sources and flags anything that should stop the sale.

What a check covers

Outstanding finance, write-off categories, stolen-vehicle registers, mileage discrepancies against previous MOTs, import/export status, and the scrappage record. A clean result still isn't a guarantee — it's a list of the knowns.

Running a check

Enter any registration on its Indexa car page and the check summary appears with the price analysis. Full reports are available at the source providers linked from each result.