Is this vehicle's mileage actually genuine?
Clocking remains one of the UK's most common used-car frauds. The mileage verification check exposes the paper trail.
- ✓ DVSA + lender data
- ✓ Service-record cross-check
- ✓ Anomaly flagging
- ⚡ Instant
What we check
Three sources, one mileage timeline
Every MOT mileage reading
All recorded readings from the DVSA, plotted against time so any drop or implausible jump is obvious.
Finance-house odometer record
Cross-reference against the mileage finance lenders recorded at sale or end of agreement.
Service-history reconciliation
Where main-dealer service records exist, we line them up against the MOT trail.
Clear discrepancy flag
We don't bury it: any mileage anomaly is highlighted at the top of the report.
Common signs of clocking
Mileage drops between two MOTs
Usually impossible — strongly suggestive of odometer rollback.
Implausibly low mileage growth
Less than 1,000 miles between annual MOTs on a daily-driver vehicle is rare and worth scrutiny.
Long service-history gaps
A car with no service stamps for two years can hide a clocked period.
Frequently asked questions
- Run the mileage verification check. It compares every DVSA MOT mileage reading, finance-lender records and service stamps to detect drops and implausibly slow accumulation. Anomalies are flagged at the top of the report.
- Citizens Advice and HPI estimate roughly 1 in 16 used cars on UK forecourts shows a mileage discrepancy. Some are innocent data-entry errors. Many are not.
- Selling a clocked car as if it were genuine is fraud under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. Adjusting the odometer itself is not specifically illegal, but selling the car without disclosing it is.
- MOT history shows the readings. Mileage verification cross-references those readings against finance and service-history sources, then computes whether the trail is consistent. The verification view catches anomalies you can miss reading the raw history.
- Modern cars store mileage in multiple ECUs, but tools to roll them all back exist. No car is truly unclockable — verification against an external paper trail is the only safe protection.
Verify mileage before you buy
Mileage verification is included in every Full HPI report.