Digital Service Book
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Your paper records, photographed once and kept for good. Enter the VIN to start — it is free, and your documents stay private.
What is a digital service book?
Why an Irish owner needs one
Main dealers file their work into the manufacturer's own system, and that is what a paid service history check retrieves. An independent garage files nothing anywhere. If your car has been serviced outside the franchised network — which most cars are once they are a few years old — that work exists only on the invoices in your glovebox.
Ireland has no public register of servicing or odometer readings, so there is nothing a buyer can look up to fill the gap. The paperwork is the record, and a folder of creased invoices is worth far less at the kerbside than the same information set out in order. That is the whole job of this book.
How it works
- Enter the 17-character VIN and sign in with your email address. There is nothing to pay.
- Photograph each invoice or stamped page — the whole page, not a close-up of one stamp, because the date and the reading are usually written beside it.
- We read each document and show you what we found: the date, the odometer reading in kilometres, the garage and the work listed. A single page of a stamped book often holds several services, and we pick them all out.
- You correct anything we misread, then save it. Nothing is added to the book until you have checked it.
- Share the finished book with a buyer as a link, as a PDF, or printed.
Where to find the VIN
The VIN is 17 letters and numbers. On your Vehicle Registration Certificate it is field E. On the car it is usually stamped on a plate at the base of the windscreen on the driver's side, or on a sticker in the driver's door opening.
The book is keyed on the VIN rather than the registration because a VIN stays with the car for life and a registration does not: an Irish plate changes when a car is re-registered, and an import carries a different one in every country it has lived in. Keying the book on the VIN means the history you build survives all of that.
What a buyer sees, and what they do not
A buyer sees the entries: the date, the reading, the garage and the work. Every one is labelled as added by the owner and not verified by us, because that is the truth — we have read a document, we have not inspected the car.
They do not see the documents themselves. Your invoices carry your name, your address and often your phone number, and this book is made to be handed to strangers. We take the garage and the work from each document and nothing about you.
Keep the paper as well. A garage's stamp is its own mark and buyers like to see it. Photograph the stamped pages into the digital book too: the paper stays as the original, and the digital copy is the version you can send.
Supported Brands
Manufacturer Records
We access service history data directly from manufacturer dealership systems — covering most European vehicles from 2012 model year onwards.
Full Service History
(18)Itemised dealer records: the date of each franchised visit, the odometer reading, what was done and which dealer did it.
Workshop Remarks
(14)Entries come from recall and warranty work rather than routine servicing, so they rarely list what was serviced. Visits that fall about a service interval apart still suggest the car was being looked after at the dealer.
Limited Coverage
(14)The dealer system answers for only a minority of these cars, and often briefly. Whether anything comes back depends on the individual car.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Does it cost anything?
No. Enter the VIN, sign in with your email address and build the book for nothing. The only paid product is the separate report of official manufacturer dealer records, which is €12.99.
Which files work?
Photos and scans saved as JPG, PNG, HEIC (the iPhone's own format) or PDF. A clear photograph of the whole page beats a close-up of one stamp.
Will it read handwriting?
Printed invoices come out almost every time. Handwritten stamps usually do, though some handwriting defeats anyone — which is why you check every entry before it is saved and can correct any figure we got wrong.
Can my garage add to it?
Not directly. The book is yours and only you write to it. After each service, ask the garage for an itemised invoice and upload that — we read the details from it for you to check.
Does it include NCT history?
No. We hold no NCT data at all, and nothing here should be read as an NCT record. The book holds the servicing you have paperwork for, and nothing else.
My car is an import. Does that change anything?
Not for the book — it is keyed on the VIN, which came with the car from wherever it was first sold, so foreign invoices go in exactly like Irish ones. If the car was previously registered in Britain, its British test and odometer record is also free to look up by VIN on our import page.
Does this include NCT 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.
The car was imported from the UK — does that matter?
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.
The car was imported from Japan — can you check it?
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.
What does a report cost?
€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.
Where do I find the VIN?
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.
Which cars have records?
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.
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