Texting car details by mobile

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Thu 30 Jul 2009 13:47
Texting car details by mobile - Mick Snutz
Being a curious sort of fellow, I texted my reg number to 86007 and it duly provided technical info about my car. No great shakes there but it also informs me when the car was registered and how many owners its had.

Does that info come from the DVLA?

Presumably if it does, the DVLA must make money from providing non-personal information to companies like this?


{moderators footnote - please be aware that texting this number will cost you £3.00 (2 x £1.50 replies from carspotter.co.uk) plus your standard text messaging charge}

Edited by Dynamic Dave on 30/07/2009 at 14:22

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Thu 30 Jul 2009 14:49
Texting car details by mobile - drbe
The DVLA info is in the public domain and is available free of charge.
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Thu 30 Jul 2009 14:51
Texting car details by mobile - Mick Snutz
by the way I don't work for them or endorse their product in anyway.
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Thu 30 Jul 2009 19:30
Texting car details by mobile - Dynamic Dave
According to reuters (tinyurl.com/nhr5pk )

"The information for CarSpotter's service comes from the same companies that supply data to UK car dealers."
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