See this video below for MOT check information
Video transcription below:
Hello it's Marcus here from CarVeto. So, this brief video is to discuss MOT history now you're able to get MOT history for free with the dot-gov.uk website just here where you would click the button enter a car reg and get an MOT history like the one we're seeing just here. CarVeto provide MOT history for every vehicle that is three years old or more there's a few important distinctions between a CarVeto MOT history and the MOT history that you can find online with the. Government website. The first one pertains to a mileage issues so you can find if a vehicle has mileage problems on the government website but you will need to independently go through each mileage and the dates of the MOT to uncover if there are any mileage problems. On a CarVeto check will tell you directly, so we can see this vehicle has actually failed its CarVeto, if we scroll down we can see this car actually failed its check due to it being a category C insurance write-off so that's something else that we include with each check. If we come down, we can see mileage issues here and it says that the odometer reading reduced by a hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and sixteen miles between the 11th of May 2016 and the 5th of September 2018. So, if we scroll down to the bottom of the report and we go to this date here which is the 11th of May 2016 and we'll see what the CarVeto was talking about. So, we come to the 11th of May 2016 just here and we can see the mileage at this point in the car’s life was very high at two hundred and eighteen thousand three hundred and eight miles, and that date was the 11th of May 2016.We can see on the fifth of May 2018, so this is about a year and a half later, that the mileage was recorded with a Ministry of Transport during its next MOT as being forty-eight thousand three hundred and ninety-two miles, so we can see that the mileage was actually reduced on this car by about one hundred and sixty thousand miles so that is a staggering reduction. It may be that this vehicle had a milometer replacement that is feasible if that's the case then you would expect to see full documented history of the milometer being replaced, or, it could also mean that the car suffered mileage reduction or otherwise known as car clocking and that's why this mileage has been reduced to such a degree - so this is a very important feature of a mot history checklist. The other important information with MOT history is to always look at the advisories for the last two Mots’, this is really part of our best practice we include this information in a complimentary car buyers guide which is given with every single CarVeto Platinum check. So, we can see the advisories here are nearside headlamp lens slightly defective, we have near registration plate lamp inoperative, we have a new side rear seat belt webbing slightly damaged. So these aren't huge costly items but they are important, nonetheless. Because these were advisories it means that they didn't have to be replaced for the car to MOT pass. They were only advised as being replaced it was recommended but we can see an item like this near side rear seat belt was webbing and slightly damaged or frayed that there's every chance in the next MOT that the car will fail on that item. So, if you go ahead and buy the vehicle you will need to cover the costs of that repair. So what this enables you to do with an MOT history is foresee any potential money you're going to have to spend in the car in 12 months’ time or when the next MOT is due. So, we recommend special attention is paid to brakes and tyres that come under the Advisory notices because they are almost always going to be failure items on the next MOT and they're going to need to be replaced. So typically, a couple of tyres and a set of brakes on the front of the vehicle could easily be three, four, five hundred pounds so, this is the type of money that you will need to account for before you actually, buy the vehicle, and a CarVeto MOT checklist is a great way of doing that. The other items we include in every CarVeto, we will tell you if the cars are been stolen, if it's recorded on the police National Register or it has been an insurance payout for theft. We tell if the cars are being written off that's category A, B, C, D, S or N, if the vehicle has ever been imported or exported or scrapped or unscrapped, or endured a VIC inspection, if there has ever been any major colour changes to the body of the car we can see this one has had one, if there's ever been any plate transfers and we also tell you what those number plates were and the date when they were changed. There's lots of useful car owner information included just here and give you additional mileage information just here, vehicle details and we also tell you if the car has any outstanding finance. So, we tell you what the finance package is whether it's Hire Purchase, Lease Purchase or Contract Purchase, the lending finance companies name their telephone number and even the agreement number as well so you're able to contact the lending company before you buy the car and get further information on how much is outstanding and the steps required to legally be able to buy that vehicle. And as I've mentioned we also provide you with our complimentary used car buying guide, you click this image and it would give you a Full Guide with tips and some secrets to buying a used car that's genuine reliable and good value for money. This includes useful information on an MOT pre-check. The guide itself comes from over 30 years of direct automotive experience so it really is a great piece of information that I'm sure you'll find very useful.
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