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Check the MOT history of a vehicle from 2005 onwards, including if it passed or failed, its mileage and why it failed, download MOT test certificate
Check a vehicle's details, tax and SORN status and expiry dates on the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Agency (DVLA) database - online and telephone enquiries
Tell DVLA you've sold your vehicle or transferred it to a new registered keeper (owner), or that you've bought a vehicle
Register your vehicle as off the road - you will not need to pay vehicle tax until you put it on the road again
Get a replacement log book (V5C) if the original has been lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed, or you have not received one for your new vehicle.
Update your vehicle log book (V5C) and send it to DVLA to change your address.
Your vehicle tax is cancelled and you get a refund for any full months of remaining tax when you tell DVLA you no longer have the vehicle or it's off the road
Application for a vehicle registration certificate, also known as a log book (V5C).
Check registration, MOT, tax, vehicle identification number and other details to help make sure a used car is not stolen or unsafe
Scrap your vehicle at an authorised treatment facility if it’s reached the end of its life and you want to dispose of it
Tell DVLA if your vehicle has been damaged, written off and then scrapped by your insurance company
Updating your V5C registration certificate (log book) if you make changes to your vehicle
What to do when selling a vehicle: your vehicle log book (V5C), submitting the right information to DVLA, private (personalised) registration numbers.
How to register your vehicle and the cost - new registrations, kit cars, rebuilds, radically altered vehicles, old and classic vehicles, vehicle identification numbers, Q plates
Request details about a vehicle's registered keeper: bulk data, anonymised data, mileage data requests, other information requests
How and when to make a SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification) to stop taxing and insuring your vehicle, including when the SORN is valid, penalties and rules for motor traders.
Buy a vehicle - how to check you’re not buying a stolen vehicle. Registering, taxing and insuring your vehicle.
You should use form V55/5 to register a used vehicle.
Application form (V890) to register your vehicle as being off the road, also called a SORN.
Find an authorised scrapyard where you can take your vehicle to be scrapped
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