Look up a vehicle's MOT status by number plate
Look up a car's make, colour, and MOT expiry from its plate when you take a booking or add a vehicle in admin.
When a garage tenant looks up a vehicle by its UK number plate, VeloCMS fetches make, colour, and MOT expiry directly from the DVLA/DVSA data feeds and stores it against that vehicle. You never need to type in the make or colour by hand.
Looking up a vehicle in admin
Go to Admin → Garage → Vehicles, enter the registration plate, and submit. If the plate is found, the vehicle's details and current MOT status (valid, not valid, or no MOT details on file) are saved and appear in your vehicle list.
The lookup runs through a shared government-data proxy with its own rate limit. If it's temporarily unavailable, saving the vehicle still works — you just enter the details by hand instead of them being filled in automatically. Nothing is ever lost or blocked because a lookup couldn't run.
MOT status colours
- Valid — green, MOT is current
- Not valid — red, the MOT has expired or the vehicle failed
- No details — amber, the plate returned no MOT record (common for very new vehicles)
Looking up a vehicle from the public booking form
The same lookup is available to your customers when they book online, so they can confirm they've entered the right registration before submitting. It never shows a customer more than their own vehicle's basic details.