Guides
Practical guides on keeping, rebuilding and proving your car’s service history.
- Lost your car's service history? Here's what to do
What to do when the paper service book is missing or incomplete — and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.
- Selling a car without a full service history
Why buyers ask for it, what to do if yours is incomplete, and how to turn what you do have into proof.
- What is a digital service record?
The paper service book's replacement — why it's harder to lose, easier to trust, and how it works.
- Does full service history affect a car's value?
Why buyers pay more for a documented history, where it matters most, and what 'FSH' actually proves.
- Can I get service history from a garage?
The retrieval playbook — which garages to call, the free DVSA MOT backbone, and what to ask for.
- Selling with partial service history
What a gap actually costs you at sale, how to present it honestly, and making what you have count.
- How to prove service history when selling
Stamps versus invoices versus digital records, and why a stamped book alone is weak evidence today.
- What documents do I need to sell a car privately?
A practical checklist: V5C, MOT, service history, receipts and any outstanding finance settlement.
- Car service history check
What you can check free (MOT history), what you can't (there's no central service database), and why.