Every tool a UK driver needs, free.
Each one answers a single question about your car and gives you a number. Start with your reg for all of them at once, or pick the one you came for.
Official DVLA and MOT data Real UK repair prices Answers in seconds No sign-up needed
Check your car
Car health report
One reg
MOT status, mileage history, open advisories and what each costs to put right — from the box at the top of this page.
What is that noise?
12 symptoms
Squeal, knock, smoke or a car that won’t start — every likely cause priced cheapest first, not most expensive first.
Cambelt or timing chain?
15 models
Engine by engine, not by badge. Roughly half of UK cars run a chain and never need a cambelt at all.
MOT advisory checker
16 advisories
Paste the wording from your certificate: fix now, fix soon or monitor — and the fair price for putting it right.
Car mileage check
7,400 / year
Work out a car’s real annual mileage from its MOT readings, and spot a figure that has gone backwards.
Used car check
Full history
Read any car’s MOT record before you buy, with every advisory priced as a bargaining figure.
What the MOT actually checks — the full reference
The guide behind every tool on this page. Each section of the test in plain English, with the numbers a tester works to — 1.5mm of pad, 58% braking efficiency, 1.6mm of tread, 13mm of steering play — and what our analysis of 145 million advisories shows happens to a car afterwards.
Work out a price
Repair cost calculators
25 repairs
Pick the job and your model: parts, labour hours and what a dealer would add on top.
Repair quote checker
17 repairs
Enter the figure the garage gave you and see where it sits against UK ranges.
Is my car worth fixing?
The 50% rule
When the bill passes half the car’s value the maths changes. Here is where your car sits.
Maintenance cost calculator
12 months
Servicing, MOT, tyres and likely repairs for your model, age and mileage.
Pothole damage claim
£150–£600
Typical payouts. Price the damage, build the evidence and put the claim in properly.
What an MOT should cost
£54.85 max
The legal ceiling, the free retest rules, and why plenty of garages charge well under it.
Three questions, in this order
Most drivers reach for a price checker second and regret it. The order matters, because each answer changes the next one. Two questions come before all of them: if the car is making a noise you cannot name, start with the symptom rather than with a price — and if anyone has mentioned a cambelt, settle whether your engine even has one. Roughly half of UK cars run a timing chain and never need it, which makes that quote the most expensive misunderstanding on this page.
First: what did the tester actually say? An MOT advisory is a phrase written in a hurry by someone under a car, and the same six words can mean a ten-pound fix or a four-hundred-pound one. Decode the wording before you ring anybody — the advisory checker turns it into plain English, an urgency, and a price. If you want the whole picture rather than one phrase, what the MOT actually checks goes through every section of the test with the thresholds behind each verdict.
Second: is the quote fair? A high quote is not automatically a rip-off — a dealer rate, a seized bolt or a genuine part all move the number legitimately. What you want to know is whether it sits inside the UK range for that job, and what to ask if it does not. That is the quote checker.
Third: is it worth paying at all? Once a single bill passes roughly half of what the car is worth, the sensible answer stops being obvious. The 50% rule calculator puts your car’s value and the repair side by side so the decision is arithmetic rather than mood.
Every one of them is free, none needs an account, and none of them books anything on your behalf. When you know the number, you decide what to do with it.