Main vehicle report
Buyer Decision Report: Understand the buying risks before you commit.
The Buyer Decision Report separates returned facts, Car Assistant’s interpretation and anything the connected sources did not return. It highlights material findings and creates a tailored to-do list; it does not issue an unsupported instruction to buy or reject the vehicle.
Not available to buy yet. Explore the report details to see what it will include.
When this check is useful
- Buyers assessing a used car or van
- Understanding important findings without decoding a raw-data report
- Comparing an asking price with returned history and current valuation context
What the £7.99 report checks
- Finance, stolen, insurance write-off and scrapped markers
- Import, export, registration-plate and recorded-colour history
- MOT history, recorded mileages and available recall evidence
- Current valuation range using the mileage supplied
- Evidence-led next checks attributed to the relevant findings
Not included in this first report
- Separate salvage-auction history or imagery
- Keeper-duration and additional industry-mileage add-ons
- Previous adverts, taxi or other previous-use data
- EV battery, tyre, service-history or factory-build datasets
What we may need
- Vehicle registration or confirmed VIN
- Current mileage when a valuation is requested
- Asking price and vehicle value when relevant to the selected tier
How results are presented
- A branded online report
- A findings summary separating evidence, interpretation and unknowns
- A prioritised to-do list with links to relevant guidance
- The source and check time where supplied
What this check cannot prove
- Coverage depends on the selected sources, vehicle and check time.
- A result that was not returned remains unknown and is never presented as clear.
- The report does not prove legal ownership, guarantee roadworthiness or replace a suitable physical inspection.
- Experian attribution and any applicable guarantee terms apply only to the specific fields and tier identified at checkout and in the report.
Before choosing this check
Does a report with no returned marker guarantee the vehicle has no history?
No. It describes what the connected sources returned at the stated check time. Source coverage, timing and unrecorded events still matter.
What happens if part of the report is unavailable?
The report still returns the relevant data available for that vehicle and labels the unavailable item as ‘not returned’. A missing field is never presented as a clear result.
Will the report tell me whether to buy the vehicle?
It provides evidence-led decision support and practical next checks. The documents, physical vehicle and your circumstances still need to inform the decision.