Mot history site now lists name and address of where mot was done !

[kinkersaab]

Whick will be handy if like me you like tracing past cars.... Will be usefull and interesting. Go DVLA.

[Kiltox]

Just noticed this too, strange coincidence

 

Wonder how many cars you can now see have failed on a boat load and then passed a different centre the next day

[Matt]

I'm sure you could find out where it was done when they first introduced the history check, I think you needed the most recent test number rather than the plate?

 

Edit: The silver Swift that I bought in winter 2015 was originally sold in Canterbury but had it's most recent MOT over 500 miles further North in Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross. Hell of a distance for a car with only 25k on it.

[oldcars]

Shite. 

[beko1987]

That's amazing! My gooner has been about a bit! Whereas amys sister took the Zafira to the same garage every year!

[mercrocker]

Excellent!   Somebody has been MOT'ing  my old Zephyr not 5 miles away....Haven't seen it for 18 years!

[tooSavvy]

Weyy...heyyy

 

TS

[Kiltox]

Quite interesting to see where cars end up by looking at where they're getting tested - eg a hire car I absolutely ruined when on hire from Europcar at East Mids Airport is now in Aberdeen!

[warren t claim]

Oh shit.

[Eddie Honda]

I'm sure you could find out where it was done when they first introduced the history check

^^^^ THIS

 

They have put back what they had taken away from the olden days when you needed either a cert no or V5C ref no.

[kinkersaab]

Yes, but that was no use for tracing spots, or cars you no longer had.... This is ace.

 

I found an old yourube vid of local to me area and a 58 rover 60. I knew a few years ago when i found the vid it had been on the road recently, now i was able to tell where..a quick post on fb to a local classic car club and the car is known, the owner can now see his car bumbling about on film with its owners from 55 yrs ago. Thats nice.

[omegod]

Seems a bit risky if for example you have a nice mk2 escort/capri/granada, online pics with the reg would allow crooks to at least narrow down the area it probably lives in 

[Pillock]

*spends rest of evening tracing old cars for no reason at all*

[dave21478]

Neat.

 

Being a naturally pessemistic wanker, I had assumed that the whole adventure of moving car stuff online would be a disaster.....online taxing, online MOT checks, online ownership transfer, checking insurance online....I was expecting nightmares, nothing working properly and generally a 104.7% increase in hassle, but you knw what? Its brilliant. The whole thing works really, really well.

[egg]

Interesting that my Carlisle registered Fusion was getting MOT'd up in Lockerbie, then Blackburn, then Gillingham, then me. It's been around.

 

Proves the Mondy base was being MOTd at the original dealer, Cuff Miller until 2009.

[flat4alfa]

Crikey my old Wolseley Landcrab has done over 50k since I sold it in 2010, thought it had gone off to live on IOW, but the tickets have been done so close to me I ought to have spotted in by now

[flat4alfa]

The XM vegmobile has been all over the shop, and it was rotten underneath when I had 5 years ago

 

Its last ten years:

Blackburn > Southampton > March > Tiverton > Hexham > Kirkcudbright

[mercrocker]

I have also found out where in the country my grandfather's number plate ended up.   Car's long gone but it would be nice to rock up on April 10th next year and offer to buy the plate back!

[CortinaDave]

Christ, all of my old man's company cars somehow ended up in Plymouth when the company sold them off. Why the hell did they shunt 'em all the way down there to sell them?

 

Interesting to see my old Saab is back in Fife again after a few years down south...

[kinkersaab]

How cool is this?

Random film from 55 yrs ago of owners and car

 

Car now buzzing about in shetland..

 

Thanks dvla... Said no one ever until now.

[Matt]

Lockerbie

 

 

Kirkcudbright

 

Small world (well, country), both of the above are on my patch. Bobothebeard has a caravan nearby too.

[fordperv]

What a great idea for tracking down basic areas of cars so you can steal them

[kinkersaab]

^ thats a sad way of looking at it.

[fatharris]

And daft. The area the car's being tested in may have no relation to the location. Treasured cars may have a preferred garage by the owner.

[Aston Martin]

Panda in 2005-2009

 

PILGRIM'S GARAGE

CUCKOO HILL

ASSINGTON ROAD

BURES

CO8 5JH

 

 

Hmmmm

[Jazoli]

What a great idea for tracking down basic areas of cars so you can steal them

 

That makes no sense whatsoever, my bike is mot'd at a garage 1 mile away from my house, you'd still never find it, methinks you need to remove your tinfoil hat

[SiC]

What a great idea for tracking down basic areas of cars so you can steal them

I could imagine that for high end rare stuff - like exotic Ferraris, etc. Have someone hanging around the garage for a couple of days when the MOT expires/year after it last was done and then ...

 

If it's particularly rare and exotic, hanging round for a few days wouldn't be surprising.

[AlabamaShrimp]

It's alive!! (bugger missing the bit that says Capri)

 

 

I sold it far too cheap after I was a tosser and left it on the drive but it's now in Lincoln. Hate to think how much they'll have paid.

 

Still got some bits and the paperwork

[kinkersaab]

I think its great, there will be a fair few of us who look up the gov site if we see something interesting /different etc..i know if someone were to track me down with an old picture/film or whatever of one of my cars i would be delighted. lots of us im sure like older shit for nostalgia and the fact the cars have a history and a past... This can add to it

 

Here is a pic that came up on my facebook local old pics page, from about 1980

 

I see it has been mot'd in whitehaven recently. I bet the owner wouls like a pic of it for sale when nearly new in aberdeen. I dont imagine it would take much to ebable that

[kinkersaab]

Cazana tells me the above is now red