Free Car Check V2 Update

If you've been spying on the development site at http://dev.freecarcheck.org/ you might have seen the new accounts system - I covered it in my last blog post here a few weeks ago. I spent some more time on it, and its working pretty nice now.

I've also got some other changes - FCC will also be (hopefully temporarily) requiring you to enter the manufacturer. I'm looking to team up with an insurer who can provide that information for me, but I also don't want to start showing ads which is leaving me in a bit of a dilemma!

I've also added a CAPTCHA since I had someone from a car prices website flood the FCC server with requests. Even worse I think they were selling the reports. I won't mention the company here for fear of slander, but they seem to have the questionable business practice of asking for contact details without making clear you'll be sent a bill in the post for their service. So if you do want a car valuation make you sure you read the companies terms and conditions!

Happy New Year

About time I updated the blog post with whats been going on. I wound down for the holidays, but been doing a few bits and bobs in the meantime. The new Free Car Check now has registration working, and I have a user page populated with a "My Vehicles" overview - at a glance you check if your families cars are all taxed and MOT'd.


If you really want you can already create an account - but since only I can add vehicles I'd say there's not much point yet :-)