About
Who is behind AutoSpect
You are being asked to pay a company you have not heard of for an opinion about a car you have not bought yet. That is a fair thing to be careful about, so here is what can be checked.
The company
AutoSpect is run by AUTOSPECT LTD, a private limited company registered in England and Wales. The number below links to the public register, which is not something we control or publish.
- Registered name
- AUTOSPECT LTD
- Company number
- 17262131
- ICO registration
- ZC236002
- Incorporated
- 4 June 2026
- Registered in
- England and Wales
- Registered office
- 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ
- Operates in
- Great Britain (UK residents only)
- Contact
- support@autospect.co.uk
AutoSpect is new. It was incorporated in June 2026 and it has no trading history, no reviews and no track record to point at. Saying so is more useful to you than a paragraph implying otherwise.
Where the data comes from
Almost none of it is ours. The record belongs to the government and to licensed providers, and what AutoSpect does is read it, cross-reference it and put it in an order that answers a buying decision.
DVSA
Every MOT test, result and advisory, with the clause the tester recorded it under.
Open Government Licence v3.0.
DVLA
Tax status, first registration, engine and technical detail.
Open Government Licence v3.0.
Euro NCAP
Crash test ratings for the model, where the model was tested.
Published safety ratings.
Licensed provenance registers
Outstanding finance, insurance write-off category, stolen markers and mileage verification.
Commercial, paid for per vehicle. Part of the Decision Report only.
Where a figure on this site is computed rather than quoted, it is computed from those datasets at build time rather than typed into the copy. The MOT failure rate analysis is the clearest example: 24 million real tests, aggregated by model, with the full dataset published as a CSV anyone can check the arithmetic against.
How it makes money, and why the free part is free
One payment, £29.99, for one vehicle. It is not a subscription, nothing renews, and there are no credits to buy. That is the entire business today.
Looking up a registration is free, with no account and no card, and it is not a trial that runs out. It is free because the DVLA and DVSA data underneath it costs nothing to licence, so giving it away costs nothing we were selling. The paid Decision Report is the part with a real marginal cost: a provenance check on that specific vehicle, bought from a licensed provider at the moment of purchase, once.
We have a commercial interest in you buying a report. We would rather say that than have you work it out.
What AutoSpect is not
- Not a mechanical inspection. Nothing here puts the car on a ramp, drives it or looks underneath it. It tells you what the record says and what to look at yourself. How that compares to an AA or RAC inspection, with their prices, is set out separately.
- Not a guarantee. There is no financial guarantee attached to a report. Some history check providers sell one; we do not, and pretending otherwise would be the easiest lie on this page. What there is: a full refund if the report fails to generate, never reaches you, or is materially wrong about your vehicle (Terms, §5).
- Not a certification. The AI-generated parts of a report are a probabilistic tool. They can be wrong, they are labelled as such throughout, and the Terms set out the limits.
- Not available outside Great Britain. The records cover vehicles registered in Great Britain, and the provenance licence restricts end users to UK residents. Both have to be true for a report to be sold.
Questions
Email support@autospect.co.uk. That address reaches the person who builds it, not a queue.