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UK used-car checks by plate or photo: free MOT status, no key needed; optional detailed MOT reports
Remote server: your requests and data go to regtail.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http regtail https://regtail.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
decode_plate — When a UK plate of this format could have been issued, from the plate alone (format, age identifier, and the window as first and last month)free_check — The site's free check: identity, tax and MOT status, latest MOT test, its defects and recorded mileage, the existing since-previous-test sumresolve_vehicle — Resolve a typed plate, car photo data URL or supported advert URL to a plate only. No account or spend. If uncertain, ask the user to confircompare_vehicles — Compare the site's free projections for exactly two plates: identity, status and latest MOT test. Duplicate plates use one lookup. Includes sample_report — The detailed report and viewing advice for one public sample car (CX52HHM, a 2002 Land Rover Defender), to show what a detailed report contamot_index — MOT statistics for the whole GB fleet, from the RegTail MOT Index 2025 (DVSA anonymised MOT data, Open Government Licence v3.0). Answers: hofull_report — The detailed report of a car the user has unlocked on their RegTail account: verdict and top risks, every MOT test with defects and advisoriunlock_report — Spends one of the user's RegTail credits to unlock the detailed report for this plate for 30 days, then returns the detailed report (as fullviewing_advice — Advice for viewing an unlocked car in person: a summary, priorities to check (each with why and the report records behind it) and known weakcredits_balance — How many credits the user's RegTail account holds, and pricing_url, a page explaining how credits work. Needs the user's RegTail account linmy_reports — The cars the user has unlocked (with when each unlock ends) and their recent checks, so a conversation can pick up a car checked earlier. NeNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.