Does entering your Motability car Reg in Car reg/MOT sites, show it Tax except? or disabled ?

katesheet · 5 May at 10:07PM

If entering your Motability car Reg into Car reg/mot sites, does it show "Tax except"? or disabled ?

on these sites where you can enter your car reg and find out details about the car
such as colour, petrol, Mot passed, Taxed etc.

When you enter a car registration that is on a motability lease, when you enter that
reg in the site, do the details show up as

Tax Except?
Disabled ?
Motability ?
Nil ?
£0.00 ?

Does it give any 'indication' that the car is registered disabled or on Motability, to anybody who does a search ?

Can you please try this with your car,

Have you got a motability vehicle? if so can you please do this,

enter your Motability car reg into these sites and tell if it shows Tax except? Tax paid

Motability? (under the finance part perhaps ?)

Here are sites:

https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/

https://www.carcheck.co.uk

https://www.checkcardetails.co.uk

https://www.hpi.co.uk

https://www.webuyanycar.com/free-car-check/

https://totalcarcheck.co.uk/

https://www.hpi.co.uk/

https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/

Please tell me when you your entered vehicle on those sites, if they showed your motability vehicle as: tax except, disabled, or £0

if not, then what did it show under the tax ?

Spoonie_Turtle · 5 May at 10:54PM

Haven't we already had a thread like this? The answer was, IIRC, no.

elsien · 6 May at 6:00AM

Why do you want to know and why do you need other people to check for - if you have a mobility car, can’t you just enter the details yourself and find out?

poppy12345 · 6 May at 7:35AM

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6667082/does-entering-your-motability-car-reg-in-car-reg-mot-sites-show-it-tax-except-or-disabled

We've had this question in the past. Not sure why you want to know this either. No, it doesn't tell you, all it says is "Vehicle status" taxed.

Albermarle · 6 May at 10:56AM

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81988399#Comment_81988399

I think the previous poster was concerned about the negative publicity/headlines about ' Taxpayers paying for people driving around in luxury cars ' Or that their disability was not that obvious and some neighbour was checking its status. Just guessing.

OP - I checked the gov.uk vehicle enquiry for our vehicle ( which is not motability, but is registered for free disabled car tax)

It just says it is taxed and nothing else.

At the bottom of the page it says this;

View the tax rates for this vehicle

If you have the latest 11 digit reference number from the V5C registration certificate (logbook) you can view the tax rates for this vehicle.

Gandalf644 · 6 May at 12:06PM

Just out of interest, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) recently adjudicated a case brought by someone complaining that their vehicle showed as 'Motability Finance' when checked on these sort of sites.

The FOS ajudjed it was not in a breach of any regulations and did not uphold the complaint.

Link: https://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/decision/DRN-6016633.pdf