Motorfile: MOT, Tax & History

Everything about the car you own, from a number plate. Type your registration once. Motorfile reads the government's records and fills in the rest: make, model, year, fuel, engine, every MOT it has had and what is due. CHECK ANY CAR, FREE, AS OFTEN AS YOU LIKE Not just your own. Type any plate for the full MOT history, every mileage reading, every advisory, and the whole DVLA record: tax status and when it runs out, SORN, export marker, logbook date and CO2. It costs us nothing, so it costs you nothing. WHAT THE TESTER ACTUALLY MEANT MOT advisories are workshop shorthand. "Nearside front tyre worn close to the legal limit" means your front left tyre is nearly worn out, roughly 80 to 110 pounds to put right. Every one is translated and priced, a DANGEROUS defect is shown as such, and anything written down two years running is flagged as what will probably fail next. WHAT TAX COSTS, AND CLEAN AIR ZONES Twelve months, six months or monthly, from the DVLA's record and the published rates. It also works out whether the car is charged in a clean air zone, from the fuel and the registration date, and links to the official checker. NOTHING RUNS OUT MOT, tax, insurance and servicing on one timeline, soonest first. Reminders 30 days before, then 7, then 3. WHERE TO GET IT DONE Save the garage you use and the reminder names it. Or find every MOT station near you, from the DVSA's register. WHAT PETROL AND DIESEL COST NEAR YOU Live prices from the stations reporting to Fuel Finder, the government's scheme, cheapest first and only the grade your car takes. A postcode, never your location. EVERY MILEAGE READING, EVER Every MOT is a dated odometer reading, so the record goes back years. A line that dips is a clock wound back, and it says so. WHAT IT COSTS TO RUN Fuel, servicing, road tax and insurance, as real pence per mile from your receipts — and as one figure a month, the number that decides whether to keep the car. CHARGING POINTS, FOR AN ELECTRIC CAR Public chargers near a postcode: how fast in words as well as kilowatts, which plugs they take, who runs them, and Tesla by name. Say which plug your car uses and it shows only the ones that fit. A FILE FOR THE BUYER When you sell, hand over one page: MOT history, verified mileage, service records and any damage you declared. No address, no phone, no price. KEEP THE PAPERWORK Photograph the V5C, the certificate, the invoices. They stay on your phone and travel in your backup and iCloud copy. BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD On iPad the menu sits down the side, with your cars and what is due beside each other. There is a home screen widget, and each car can have a nickname, so a reminder says "Nat's" not a plate. WHAT MOTORFILE IS NOT An MOT, mileage and tax check. It cannot show outstanding finance, stolen markers or write-offs: that comes from finance houses, the police and insurers, and Motorfile has none of it. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER Nothing to sign up to. Your records live on your phone. What reaches us is the plate, so the DVSA can answer, and a map point if you ask for prices. Never your name or postcode. PLANS Free: one vehicle, and everything above. Not a trial, nothing expires. Household, 2.99 GBP a month or 24.99 GBP a year: five vehicles. Fleet, 10.99 GBP a month: no limit on how many you keep. A plan only changes how many cars you keep. Everything above is the same on all three. Household and Fleet are auto-renewable subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase, and renews at the same price for the same length unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://motorfileapp.com/privacy.html Data from the DVSA MOT History API, the DVLA Vehicle Enquiry Service, Fuel Finder and Open Charge Map (CC BY 4.0). Not affiliated with any of them.