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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: beast5680 on April 08, 2007, 20:50:14

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: beast5680 on April 08, 2007, 20:50:14

does anyone know how you can trace a vehicle reg to an owner etc? i,d like to look up who,s got my old disco as i passed it today on the road

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: mike142sl on April 08, 2007, 21:18:45

Unless you are a policeman then you can't as it's confidential information and subject to data protection etc. If you are a policemen then you can only get it if you have due reason.

Strangely you can get all details of previous owners via the DVLA at a cost but not the current one.

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Boggert on April 08, 2007, 21:22:00

Sorry only us Plod can do that, and if we were to run a PNC check with out a good reason we would be in the S**t.

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: beast5680 on April 08, 2007, 21:26:26

ok then will the dvla one tell you the status of a reg number like whether the vehicle has been scrapped etc?

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Yoshi on April 08, 2007, 21:30:13

http://www.vehiclelicense.gov.uk will show you the vehicle status.

Also i am pretty sure that you can get the current owners vehicle details from the dvla if you pay a fee, you need an excuse mind, i.e. they drove off after hitting your car.

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Disco-Ron on April 08, 2007, 21:30:37

Try here....
http://www.rac.co.uk/web/vehiclechecks/status_checks/;jsessionid=12A7DE15A1A384572FA3DB5757EB4A0D

Scrap that, i thought it did what it doesnt!

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Drift on April 08, 2007, 21:31:24

Yes its on the web site somewhere, it also tell you when the tax is due ect.

They have a good thing on there that lets you know what your current car failed or was advised on at its last MOT.
Handy if you have just bought it and want to know a bit of its history :wink:
Ste

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Yoshi on April 08, 2007, 21:32:26

Ste that one is http://www.motinfo.gov.uk

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Drift on April 08, 2007, 21:41:27

Link no worky  :?

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Yoshi on April 08, 2007, 22:04:13

just worked fine for me! lol

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Drift on April 08, 2007, 22:05:49

:oops: works now  :wink:

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Yoshi on April 08, 2007, 22:25:32

well i did nowt to it!!!

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Drift on April 08, 2007, 23:05:51

Itll be my stupid browser  :oops:
Ste

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Yoshi on April 08, 2007, 23:12:52

bad computer user!!! blaming your tools like that (apologies for thread hijacking for obvious abuse reasons) lol

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: Drift on April 08, 2007, 23:16:58

Scotch always helps me break the pc  :oops:  :wink:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: vehicle tracing
Post by: hobbit on April 09, 2007, 15:40:24

I think there is a way, under certain circumstances, try contacting the DVLA explain what you want and why, and I do beleive they may sent your details onto the current owner, it then being their descision if they want to get back to you

This is something I looked into a while back but never followed it up, but must be worth the cost of a phone call to DVLA to see what they say

Or tell them you welded up a gold bar into the chassis by mistake, and just remembered :wink:  :D