So do the DVLA give our details to others

[Stuart J]

How do you explain this, whilst searching for bits for the Bent Skoda I went onto this site

www.247spares.co.uk/

If you type in your car reg it comes back with the model, colour etc. I did it on a car weve only had for 4 months & it knew the answer. It must be info from the DVLA surely

If you know a celebs reg you can enter it to find out what car the reg is currently on
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Edited by Stuart J on Wednesday 11th October 08:18

[virgil]

Unless Paul daniels has sold his reg number, he now has a grey Isuzu Trooper, LWB Turbo D Estate. Now he may like this, not a lot, but he may like it...

[plcrtr]

Unbelievable!

I saw a cool registration number on a random car. I typed in the reg number on that website to discover that it was in fact registered as the very same car I saw the number plate attached to!! Astounding. It even works with my car too!

It doesn't display any details other than what type of car it is, so whats the harm here, really? Quite a handy way of ensuring you receive the correct spare parts for your car if you ask me.

[Jared_m]

Could it be used by cloners? If they start punching in random number plates in the hope that one will match the make/model/colour of a car they want cloned plates for?

[VETTE_1978]

Well I never!

I drive a "Black/silver Chevrolet GMC coupe" apparently.

This information could come from any random source though. Anything involving your car reg and type could be sold - car insurance (actual policy and any quotes), random questionaires, Police records, MOT records. Still dodgy.

[plcrtr]

Jared_m said:

Could it be used by cloners? If they start punching in random number plates in the hope that one will match the make/model/colour of a car they want cloned plates for?

Or, they could just look on Autotrader. I think that would yield a much higher success rate than hoping to fluke a match on that website.

[deva link]

You can do it from the RAC website:
www.rac.co.uk/web/vehiclechecks/dvla_lookup

I think their source might be the DVLA

[Pileopants]

You can also try this on the HPI website at www.hpicheck.com/newfrontend/

Strange but I tried the same reg on the RAC and HPI website. HPI has the correct details, RAC cannot find them...

[jlanng]

I think this data comes from the ABI (Assoc. of British Insurers) database.