Toyota service history check — official dealer records

Type the car's VIN into the form on this page. We ask Toyota's dealer system for every visit logged against that car and show them in date order, usually within a few minutes. It costs €12.99, and the card is only charged if records come back.

Toyota sits in our Full Service History tier. For hybrids, Toyota's feed returns the Hybrid Health Check from each dealer service: the date and mileage of each check. A chain of them a year apart shows annual franchised servicing, and each check extends the hybrid battery cover. It does not list other work or name the dealer, and petrol and diesel models return nothing.

Toyota GB uses the Toyota Dealer Management System (T-DMS / TDMS) to log franchised dealer visits against the VIN.

For Toyota, the Hybrid Health Check from each franchised dealer service, listed by date with the odometer reading. A chain of them a year apart is annual dealer servicing, and each one extends the hybrid battery cover. Toyota's feed does not list other work or name the dealer, and petrol and diesel models return nothing.

Usually because the servicing was done at independent garages, which don't write to Toyota's system, or because it was done before the dealer network kept digital records. A book full of independent stamps can be perfectly genuine; it just has to be backed by the paperwork rather than by the dealer system. If we find nothing, your card isn't charged.

No. The VIN is all we need: no log-in, no ownership documents and no contact with the seller. That's why people use it before they buy, to compare what the seller says with what Toyota's dealers recorded.

Put the dates and readings side by side and look at the spacing. Toyota runs a fixed 12-month or 10,000-mile schedule, alternating between intermediate and full services. Intervals differ by engine and model year, so the handbook has the exact figure for a given car. A gap much longer than the schedule is worth asking the seller about: it may have been an independent service with an invoice in the folder, or it may have been missed.

Sometimes, if you are the keeper. A Toyota dealer will often print the history at the service desk if you bring the car's documents, and some Toyota owner apps show recent visits for the car linked to your account. Neither helps a buyer looking at someone else's car, and we know of no public Toyota website that shows the whole record. Our €12.99 check needs only the VIN, and the card is only charged if records are found.

Yes, in the Toyota Dealer Management System, but the feed we read passes on only one line of it: the Hybrid Health Check carried out at each dealer service of a hybrid, with its date and mileage. Service type, line items, recall work and the dealer's name stay in Toyota's own system, which any Toyota dealer can print for you.

Yes. Enter the Toyota's registration and, for a hybrid, you get each Hybrid Health Check logged by a Toyota dealer, listed by date with the mileage. Petrol and diesel Toyotas have returned nothing so far, and the card is only charged when something is found.

The hybrids: Yaris and Yaris Cross Hybrid, Corolla, C-HR, RAV4 (including the plug-in), Prius, Auris HSD, Camry, Highlander and bZ4X. Petrol and diesel models such as the Aygo, GR Yaris, Hilux, Proace and Land Cruiser have returned nothing so far.

Toyota's Hybrid Battery Extended Care extends the hybrid battery warranty to up to 15 years or 265,500 km — but only if the annual hybrid health check is carried out at a Toyota dealer. The record entry is the proof. Without it, hybrid battery cover may be invalidated.

Yes. Toyota Care, the manufacturer's relationship-warranty programme, requires servicing at Toyota franchised dealers within the schedule's time and mileage intervals. Servicing at independents removes the car from Toyota Care eligibility. The dealer record is the proof of eligibility.

No. The MyToyota app shows a customer-facing summary of recent services. Recall work, hybrid battery health checks, and older entries often don't appear in the app even when they're in the dealer system. A dealer-system lookup retrieves the full record.

Toyota's dealers log them, but the feed we read does not pass them on: a Toyota report shows the Hybrid Health Checks only. Any Toyota dealer can confirm recall and software work against the VIN.

Toyota resale is sensitive to documented Full Service History, particularly because of the Toyota Care warranty extension. Cars with stamped-up FSH at Toyota dealers typically sell for 8-12% more than partial-history equivalents. For hybrids, the annual battery health-check entry is especially valuable.