Stolen Vehicles - The Saga Continues

Ever wanted to know if a car is reported stolen? Free Car Check has its own stolen vehicle reports (although its not been used much), but what I've really always wanted to do is get access to the reports that the Police make available to the other vehicle checking companies. The problem has always been how on earth to even start on the road to getting that information.

Last year I used the Freedom of Information Act to request a listing of which organisations have access to the stolen vehicles list and who is responsible for allowing access (On a side note FOI requests are great - it's really liberating to be able to poke about in government!). It's taken me a while to sort out responding to it, but I now have the form I need to request access. And given a bit of luck when the people in the Police come together for their next access meeting on the 2nd July I'll be one step further to providing access to the reports for free!

Squashing Bugs

I've been fixing a few problems going on recently. Things like the font size being different between Internet Explorer and Firefox. We've also added a new "Select Manufacturer" screen which we display if we have problems figuring out the make of your vehicle.

I've also put a new feature into beta - Quick Valuations. By checking Google Base we can look for similar cars for sale and give you the average price and mileage. It's very rough right now, but with more data from other sources it should get useably accurate.