Checking a car's MOT history Check a car's MOT history on the GOV.UK website. More Check a car's VED.SORN and MOT status with a VES search on the GOV.UK website. See our MGV8 Price Guide. More See our other information in our PriceWatch series. More Vehicle VED/SORN, insurance & MOT checks on the GOV.UK website. More Posted: 160306 Checking a car's MOT history Keith belcher has flagged up a useful website where you can check the MOT history of a car. It's particularly useful when buying a classic car as you can see whether the car had any adverse reports - "Reasons for failure" or Advisory notice items". The reports go back about nine or ten years to 2006. Where can you make the check? The GOV.UK website has a website where you type in the registration (VRN) of the car - making sure you use the right format NNN 888N and not NNN 888 N - and up pops the report. The website is at: www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/ The example alongside is for a car that underwent a comprehensive restoration in the mid 1990s and more work in the early 2000s. It had an MOT failure in 2007 and two other advisories. Example MOT history report