Check a car's service history in Ireland

Enter the car's registration or its 17-character VIN in the box above. We query the manufacturer's central dealer database and return every service entry franchised dealers have logged against that VIN — date, odometer reading, dealer and work done. The lookup is free; you only pay €12.99 if records are found.

Yes. Enter the Irish registration and we look up the car's VIN through a licensed Irish vehicle data provider, then search the manufacturer's dealer records held against that VIN. We show you which car it is before you pay. If a registration can't be matched — a car that has only just been re-registered after import, for example — you can enter the VIN instead.

No. The Vehicle Registration Certificate confirms registration and ownership details only. Service history is a separate record held in the manufacturer's dealer system, which is why a car can have a clean logbook and completely unknown maintenance history.

No. We return official manufacturer and main-dealer service records — the maintenance history. The NCT is a separate roadworthiness test held by the RSA and is not part of the report. Anyone offering you an Irish service history that is really just test history is selling you something different.

It helps. Manufacturer service records are stored against the VIN, not the number plate, so a car built and serviced in the UK keeps its dealer history after it is imported, VRT is paid and it goes onto Irish plates. That history is often the fullest record on the car.

Often, if it is a European make. A Volkswagen, Audi, BMW or Porsche sold new in Japan has a normal 17-character VIN, and Japanese main dealers log its services in the same manufacturer system we search, so its Japanese visits can come back with the date, the odometer reading in km and the work done. Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other Japanese-brand cars built for Japan carry a short Japanese chassis number instead of a VIN, and we can't check them.

€12.99. Your card is authorised at checkout but only charged if we actually find service records for the vehicle. If nothing is on file, the authorisation is released and you pay nothing.

The VIN is a 17-character code. It is printed in field E of the Vehicle Registration Certificate (the Irish logbook), stamped at the base of the windscreen on the driver's side, and shown on a plate inside the driver's door frame. On a UK import it will also be on the V5C the seller may still hold. A Japanese-brand car built for Japan has a shorter Japanese chassis number instead, such as ZVW30-1234567.

Cars serviced at franchised main dealers, where the visit was logged into the manufacturer's central system. Work done at an independent garage is not in the manufacturer's system and will not appear. Digital coverage is strong from roughly 2012 onwards and thins out on older cars.