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Some vehicles are recorded as destroyed, taken out of the country or brought in from abroad. Enter a registration and our check returns those markers, so you find out before you buy rather than when you try to insure it.
Whether a Certificate of Destruction has been issued. Once a vehicle is scrapped at an authorised treatment facility, that record is permanent and the vehicle should never return to the road. You can read the official rules on GOV.UK.
Whether the vehicle was recorded as permanently taken out of the UK. An exported marker on a car being sold here is a genuine problem, not a technicality.
Whether the vehicle was brought into the UK, and whether it came from inside or outside the EU. Not a fault, but it changes what you should check next.
A scrapped, exported or imported marker can turn a good-looking car into an expensive problem. Checking the registration first means you find out before you pay, not when you try to tax or insure it.
Type the UK number plate into the box. Vehicle details and MOT history come back free.
Scrapped, imported and exported markers sit inside the full vehicle history report, alongside finance, write-off and stolen data.
Read any destruction, import or export record against what the seller has told you. A scrapped marker means walk away.
Check the V5C against the record, then confirm the vehicle's identity with a VIN check before you buy.
A Certificate of Destruction means the vehicle was formally written out of existence. It cannot legally be re-registered or driven.If a car with a scrapped marker is being offered for sale, there are two realistic explanations, and neither is good.
Sometimes it is an error, for example a car that was exported and later brought back without the record being corrected. Sometimes it is deliberate, because an exported record makes a vehicle harder to trace.
A car with an export marker will be difficult to tax and insure, and re-registering it is a paperwork job that falls to you as the buyer. Ask the seller to resolve it before money changes hands, not after.
An import marker is not a warning. Plenty of good cars are imported, and some models are only available that way. It does change your checklist.
Mileage and service records from before the import often do not carry across. A low mileage import can be genuine, or it can be a car whose foreign history simply is not visible. Read the MOT history carefully, since UK testing starts from the import date.
Imported vehicles may have different equipment, lighting or emissions certification from the UK model. That affects both compliance and value.
Insurers price imports higher, particularly grey imports from outside the EU. Get a quote on the registration before you commit.
An import is typically worth less than an identical UK supplied car. Run a car valuation so you are negotiating against a realistic figure.
The V5C should show the vehicle's import status. Ask the seller for the import paperwork and confirm the car was properly registered with DVLA, because a car that was never registered correctly can be refused tax. Check the V5C against the record with a V5C logbook check.
Compare the VIN stamped on the vehicle with the V5C and report. Check the registration, make, model, colour and engine details. Ask the seller for provenance and never rely only on a photograph of paperwork. Consider contacting DVLA and obtaining professional advice if a marker appears.
This paid datapoint uses the existing licensed car-history dataset and does not make a separate physical inspection.
REGUP keeps this page focused on the check the customer searched for, with the number plate input first and the most relevant result surfaced before the wider report journey.
Paid REGUP reports can combine the checks a buyer needs before making a decision, with selected checks shown clearly in the report, PDF and email.
It means the supplied history data indicates scrapping, a certificate of destruction or an associated date. Treat it as a serious warning.
No. It means the provider did not supply enough information to reach a conclusive result.
Stop the purchase process, verify the VIN and paperwork, contact the relevant record holder and seek professional advice before proceeding.
No. It is a database-history check. It should be combined with document, identity and mechanical inspections.
Enter any UK registration to start with a free car check, then take a full vehicle history report for scrapped, import, export, finance and write-off records.
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