PlateInsight

What it does

Don't buy someone else's problem. Any UK plate gives you an AI vehicle report in 30 seconds: Health Score 0-100, reliability ranking, defect and mileage analysis, stolen/finance/write-off checks, market valuation. Critical Issues Forecast predicts what fails next. Upload photos for AI damage analysis. Higgy, our AI assistant, explains anything in plain English. Built on 261M MOT records, 18.9M UK vehicles. From 20p, about a third the cost of HPI. iOS and Android. Free to try.

Spot clocked cars and overpriced deals in 30 seconds. AI checks across MOT, finance, stolen, write-off and market valuation data. 5 free credits, no card needed.

We pull together 261 million DVSA MOT records with stolen, write-off, outstanding finance and market valuation data from trusted UK industry sources, so you see the full picture on any car in one place. Buying, owning or just curious? Vehicle Explorer is free. Compare any UK model against thousands of real MOT results, no plate or download needed. Real MOT pass rates, common failures, and overall condition, ranked across thousands of vehicles. Golf vs Focus? Qashqai vs Tucson? See which holds up better based on real test data. Every model has good and bad years. Find out which to target, and which to walk away from. Download PlateInsight and get 5 free credits, enough to check your…from plateinsight.co.uk

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