Check your MOT history

[Mr Nice Guy]

I wasn't sure where to post this...

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You can now check on your vehicle's MOT history, all the previous owners' Passes, Fails and Advisories issued since computerisation.

It was news to me until I discovered it yesterday and it can make interesting reading to see what trouble previous owners have had to remedy (and what might lay in store?).

To check here, you need the registration mark and a reference number either from your V5C or from the latest MOT certificate.

Also useful for detecting clocking -- the odometer history is shown.

https://www.motinfo.gov.uk/internet/jsp/ECHID-Internet-History-Request.jsp
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[Ste]

Interesting...

Change of details
Colour: WHITE / PURPLE recorded at time of test on 06/10/2007

WTF, it's always been white & purple.

[Fisty]

well well well, my bikes been clocked.
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[steve32]

yea its a good website that one ive found out that mine was red before i got it and now its bloody bright yellow
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[SoND]

Useless Brits, mine won't show up. Boo.
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[owdamer]

My car had done 26 and a half thousand miles and failed on a worn n/s front trye and had an advisory gived on a nearly worn o/s front tyre, March 2007. I bought the car just over a year later and it had done another 10K. Rear tyres are pretty much shagged now.
Good website that. I now know that front should be good for about 25k, and rears about 35-40k.

[kitty kat]

my last MOT reads like a bloody novel, all the failures & advisories.



Colour: SILVER

Approximate date of first use: 08/05/2001
Type of fuel: Petrol


Date of test: 02/08/2008
Certificate issued (Pass)
Odometer reading: 51,924 Miles
Test number: 812755818230
Test expiry date: 01/08/2009


Full Test History, starting with first recorded vehicle and test results


Date of test: 30/07/2008
Certificate issue refused (Fail)
Odometer reading: 51,865 Miles
Test number: 323582418233
Test station name: BLACKPOOL HONDA
Test station number: V100667
Test station telephone number: 01253 600900
Test class: II
Reason(s) for refusal to issue Certificate
Front Stop lamp does not illuminate immediately a brake applies (1.3.1a)
Rear Stop lamp does not illuminate immediately a brake applies (1.3.1a)
Headlamp aim too low (1.6)
Nearside Front Footrest insecure (6.2.1a)
Offside Front Footrest insecure (6.2.1a)
Centre Exhaust is leaking and excessively noisey (7.1.1b)
Centre Exhaust excessively deteriorated (7.1.1a)
Locking device(s) not correctly fitted which may make the motor bicycle dangerous to ride (6.2.1h)
Advisory Notice issued
Steering movement slightly 'notchy' (2.2.1b)
Front suspension assembly has slight free play between the sliding members (2.3.4)
Drive chain slightly loose (6.2.1d)
Steering head nut loose
Slightly bent handlebars
Heated grip switch loose

when it passed it still had advisories

Advisory Notice issued
Steering movement slightly 'notchy' (2.2.1b)
Front suspension assembly has slight free play between the sliding members (2.3.4)
Slightly bent handlebars
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[trevoriv]

Well apparently my 2002 bike has only been MOT'd twice
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[trevoriv]

The computerised 07 and 08's arent showing
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[Graham88]

Wicked

My Fiesta failed due to a faulty steering rack in 2006, and my 636 failed due to headlight aim and indicators flashing more than 120 times per minute. Didn't know they sat there and counted them, what if they lose count

[djr]

It will only show mot's after 2006 (from memory) which was when the mot system went computerised ( i bought a bike that year and had to go back for the mot cert when the new systems had been made to work...

I'm not surprised really as the following year i worked with one of the guys who worked on that project and it was a right cock tbh who didn't have a clue...

[Jamie S]

[Phoenix]

[damz]

when did the computerisation of mot system start, mine only goes back to 2007, tho it may had been imported at that time.
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[djr]

[Visitor Q]

Only annoyance is that you have to have some paperwork to check it. IE its fairly useless to a buyer wanting to check the history, unless seller provides the info on request (yeh right).
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[Chriss]

Bare in mind, it's only as good as the data put in.

My bike shows up as being clocked according to that.

In 2005 (got the bike in 2004) it had done 133000 miles or so, basically put two 3's in, instead of 2.
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[TheDonUK]

Gutted, My ZX6 has been clocked... It seems they took off 12k, i wouldent have paid so much for it having known this, and now i think i need a more extensive full service rather than just the oil/filters/plugs i had done a little while back...

I take it i have no real recourse against the dealer i brought it from as they can just say thats the mileage it had when it came to them?

Date of test: 11/04/2007
Certificate issued (Pass)
Odometer reading: 23,262 Miles
Test number: 444651907196
Test station name: CHESTERFIELD MOTORCYCLE CENTRE
Test station number: 3921BN
Test station telephone number: 01246559900
Test class: II
Test expiry date: 10/04/2008
No Advisory Notice issued

Date of test: 01/05/2008
Certificate issued (Pass)
Odometer reading: 9,397 Miles
Test number: 402092028142
Test station name: E W MOTORCYCLE REPAIRS
Test station number: 1ALQ21
Test station telephone number: 01246477664
Test class: II
Test expiry date: 30/04/2009
No Advisory Notice issued
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[Graham88]

Bugger

I'd have thought maybe at the time you could take action against them, not sure if there is a time frame for these things?

[TheDonUK]

I have had the bike for about 2 or 3 months,

And the really worrying thing is tomorow morning im riding to bloody amsterdam, theres me thinking on a 10k bike, so its actually more like 28k and who knows if the valves have ever been checked... Thats gonna fuck with my head all the way there and back now.

When i come back im going to put a fucking brick through the dealers window...

I dont know if i would have just prefered to be in blissfull ignorance...
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[Bishbash]

Feel pretty sorry for you Don. Thats hard luck. How much did you pay for the ZX?

Well I cant get it to work for the bike I just bought...doh The V5 doc number is the number looking like?

"1234 567 8910"

I put my reg number and that one in and it failed. Maybe its not been MOTed for a while...
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[TheDonUK]

About 3-400 quid more than its worth (with this new info), And i only stumped up the extra on the basis that it was a low mileage clean example of an early ninja...

They acheived exactly what they set out to do, get a sucker like me to part with a bit more hard earned cash. The front of those cunts at the dealership too, when i was haggling he was really pushing the mileage and i was pushing the crappy brakes...

With hindsight it all makes sense now, the exhaust had been welded and the 6pots were shite, I feel like such a fool as when i was standing there discussing if i should buy it with my mate i said to him, thats awfully low mileage for a 9 year old bike, but i dident trust my gut instinct and brought with my heart, let that be a lesson to everyone, if it sounds too good to be true it is...

Touching some major wood here in light of the 900 ish miles im doing tomorow, the bike has always started on the button and been ok, but now knowing the true mileage im really gonna have to fork out for the full service taking the head off, not something i have a clue how to do nor can afford...

Oh and yea the V5 Doc Ref Number is "xxxx xxx xxxx" i believe.
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[Phoenix]

Might be worth asking the DVLA if the mileage was ever entered during changes of ownership, it's unlikely as most people don't bother, but if it was high when it was signed over to the dealer you bought it off, then got MOT'd at a lower mileage you can prove it was the dealer.

It might not have been clocked though, it might've been crashed and had new clocks fitted, if the dealer was responsible though they'd still have to declare it or it's the same as clocking.