This may have been covered before but this is free, if you have a smart phone download an app called Vehicle Smart, it will give you any vehicles MOT history, if it's taxed, when due, any car I look at buying, I run it through this and it gives me all MOT fails if any and any advisories it has ever had, just for a laugh I was watching an old wheeler dealer programme this week so ran the reg through vehicle smart and it was still road worthy, plus if you were to ever have an accident run the other cars reg through it, at least you will know if it's got an MOT and if it hasn't it probably hasn't insurance either, just a thought.