Where our data comes from

DVLA — Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

The vehicle record: make, model, colour, fuel type, engine capacity, CO₂, date of first registration, current tax status and expiry, and SORN, import, export and scrap markers.

DVSA — Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

MOT test history for England, Scotland and Wales: every test since 2005 with result, expiry date, recorded odometer reading, failure items and advisory notes.

Experian

The finance and provenance record: outstanding hire purchase, PCP and lease agreements, condition and write-off data, keeper change history, plate and colour change history, high-risk markers and previous search history.

MIAFTR

The Motor Insurance Anti-Fraud and Theft Register, maintained by the insurance industry, records total-loss claims and their write-off categories.

Police National Computer

Vehicles reported stolen to the police and not recorded as recovered.

Salvage auctions and advert archives

Salvage auction sale records — date, damage type, mileage and photos where they exist — and the mileage and price shown in the vehicle's previous classified adverts.

Valuation estimates

Valuation estimates are returned by One Auto API for trade, retail, private and part-exchange channels, where available, using the mileage supplied with the request. We do not identify an underlying valuation brand or claim its authorisation without verification. Estimates are guidance only, not independently verified prices or guaranteed sale values.

How we access them

We use One Auto API as our vehicle-data supplier. This does not establish a direct relationship between EvelopCars and every organisation named above, and we do not claim that those organisations endorse our service. Preview results may be cached for up to a week; paid reports request fresh data from our supplier.

Known limits

• Records for Northern Ireland registrations can be less complete than for GB registrations.
• Accident damage that was never claimed on insurance will not appear on any register.
• Finance taken out very recently may not yet have been reported to the register.
• Mileage is only as reliable as the readings recorded — a gap between records cannot be verified.
• Where a source is unavailable or returns nothing, your report says so rather than implying a clear result.