You can carry out a reg check on a car to find out about its previous history. A car registration check is intended as a way for people who are buying a used car to find out a little bit more about the car that they are intending on buying. It is a quick way for you to be able to make a check either whilst you are out and about by using your mobile phone or from home by access the internet.
There are several different types of car reg check, depending on the company that you do the check through there are different types available. You may find these types of check referred to as HPI checks, car data checks, text registration checks and car history checks amongst other variations. Generally these types of check will provide you with information about the history of the car. You will generally be able to find out whether or not the vehicle has any outstanding finance, has been previously written off by an insurer or has been stolen.
One piece of information that you will not be able to obtain from this type of check is the name and address of the current registered owner. Although this would be a really useful piece of information to have it cannot be given out by companies due to the data protection act. For this information you should demand to see the vehicles registration documents. It is also useful to take along your own documents to compare them side by side to enable you to identify any fakes.
If you are buying a used car it is important that you do check the history of the car that you are buying. If you end up with a stolen, previously written off vehicle or one with outstanding finance you could end up losing the car that you have just spend many hundreds or thousands of pounds to buy.