Rather useful site to show car tax prices

[feef]

Any chance you could include the pricing for next year based on the budget changes?

[TommoAE86]

rotarymazda said:

My 1994 mx5 worked (import) but a 2000 RX7 import didn't.

Edited by rotarymazda on Wednesday 1st June 14:53

Riley Blue said:

Works for my 1963 Riley.

Cool, I'm totally special then

[Charles Sweeney]

LambShank said:

Tis a very helpful website.

Thank you, Good Sir!

[Charles Sweeney]

lindrup119 said:

My first car (1990 Mini) only has MOTs starting from 2006. Any way of going back further Charles?

The MOT info is only available from the DVSA from around 2005.

[Charles Sweeney]

feef said:

Any chance you could include the pricing for next year based on the budget changes?

That would be the new 2017 tax bands? I have that info on my other site: http://whattaxband.com/

With Regisearch it's about vehicle information, tax prices and MOT history for a given registration so I deliberately didn't include tax band information for all cars.

[Charles Sweeney]

TommoAE86 said:

Cool, I'm totally special then

The information I use on the site comes directly from the DVLA search you can do yourself. If the info isn't on the DVLA search, I won't have it on my site.

As far as I can tell (I looked up all my old cars too) if the DVLA was notified that the vehicle was scrapped then all trace of it is gone, it gets deleted basically. In the case where you see a record for an old (non existant) vehicle, it would have been scrapped but the owner or scrap merchant didn't inform the DVLA so it still shows on their records, as you might expect. Equally, a car could have simply rotted away somwhere without the DVLA being notified, so it would still show up on their records.

[Charles Sweeney]

TommoAE86 said:

Great site Charles!

Could anyone let me know if they have got a pre-1996 car to work? I tried my old Pug but that looks to have been scrapped and my Nissan is an import which both add complex to the query.

Thank you, Good Sir!

Simply, if the car is on the DVLA records, the vehicle information will be shown for it.

[Charles Sweeney]

Rosun said:

Looks like one of my old ones got given a 'haircut' between 2010 - 2011 (Y541 LBB / Lexus).

Yes, interesting mileage change in the MOT history!

[Accelerated]

Charles, great site !

[Charles Sweeney]

Accelerated said:

Charles, great site !

Thank you, buddy! And thanks for telling PistonHeads about it!

[Quinten]

Used it a couple of times now Charles, it's really nice.

Do you think you could make it scrape the manufacturer automatically too? If you use https://www.theaacarcheck.com for instance, you only need the registration and it will tell you what car it is (without having to resort to a full check).

And for the cherry on top, is askmid an option? I know they state that you can only check your own vehicle, and have a capcha... but if you don't ask...

[Poisson96]

Top marks, surprised it picked up mine

http://regisearch.co.uk/registration_search.php?re...

And got the tax band right

[Accelerated]

Charles Sweeney said:

Accelerated said:

Charles, great site !

Thank you, buddy! And thanks for telling PistonHeads about it!

No probs Charles, I believe it was mainly traders using it which is how I was told about it, but I thought it's to good a site to keep as a trade secret!

[Charles Sweeney]

Quinten said:

Used it a couple of times now Charles, it's really nice.

Thank you, Good Sir!

Quinten said:

Do you think you could make it scrape the manufacturer automatically too? If you use https://www.theaacarcheck.com for instance, you only need the registration and it will tell you what car it is (without having to resort to a full check).

Yes, I did think about that but decided against it. Various reasons, in the first place I didn't want to get blocked by the site I was looking up for doing multiple searches (if indeed they would). Also, the manufacturer names would have to be exactly as DVLA uses them as that's what I pass to the DVLA, things like Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz with or without hyphens (for example) could give problems. It also means another lookup which could introduce a delay if there was a problem with their server (there's currenty two lookups, DVLA and DVSA). Also it would mean relying on them for the make, if their site was down, mine would be too.

It's always bugged me that you have to enter the make on the DVLA search, you would think if they knew the registraion they could locate the vehicle. Just my guess but the reason might be that a registration could have been on more than one make of vehicle (private plate for example) so I guess that's why you have to explicitly state the reg and make.

But yes, ideally I would like it to be reg only.

Quinten said:

And for the cherry on top

Don't be greedy.

Quinten said:

is askmid an option? I know they state that you can only check your own vehicle, and have a capcha... but if you don't ask...

Just had a look at that, you couldn't look it up with just the registration and make, plus it looks like there's a £4 charge for using it. So for now it won't be an option. What I did think about was having other information related to the registration, such as comments from previous owners, or pictures, could be interesting.

Love the feedback and suggestions, thanks!

[Charles Sweeney]

Poisson96 said:

Top marks, surprised it picked up mine

http://regisearch.co.uk/registration_search.php?re...

And got the tax band right

Thank you, Good Sir.

There's quite a bit of parsing of the DVLA data involved to get the correct tax prices. The first thing I do is look at the year of maufacture (if it's present) to determine if the vehicle is over 40 years old and tax exempt, such is the case with yours. In this case no other information is required.