FuzzyReg UK partial number plate search

Registered is when DVLA first registered the vehicle — the date the MOT record itself is keyed on. It takes 2018, 2018-06 or 2018-06-30, and a part date means the whole of the period it names. The year of manufacture is shown on each result but is not a filter: it is derived rather than recorded, and for an import it can be years off the registration date.

Mileage is the odometer at the last MOT, so it is only as recent as that test — a vehicle off the road for years still reads whatever it read when it last passed. Readings recorded in kilometres are converted, so the range means miles whichever unit the tester entered. Either end can be left empty for an open-ended range.

Plate length counts characters, not spaces: HY22 LZA is seven. Current-style plates are all seven, so a shorter range finds dateless and personalised marks.

Engine size in litres or cc, to the nearest 0.1 litre. Electric vehicles have none, so a range leaves them out.

Likely imported, from the record's dates: used six months or more before GB registration. Only some imports show this way.

Inconsistent: a later MOT recorded lower mileage than an earlier one. A replaced clock can do that, so it is a flag, not proof.

Country reads the three-digit mission code on a diplomatic plate — the embassy, high commission or international organisation the vehicle belongs to. Pick more than one to compare them. A mission can hold several codes (France is 152–156), which are searched together, and some codes name a convention rather than a country: 350–399 is an undisclosed mission, 600–649 visiting royalty.

Issued in is the DVLA region that first issued the plate — roughly where it was first sold. It is not where the vehicle is now, and says nothing about its keeper. Local offices closed in 2013, so it is weaker on newer plates. Pick more than one to compare regions, as with age ident. and paint. Personalised and dateless plates carry no region or age at all, so pairing one of those under plate style with issued in or age ident. creates an impossible search — the search will not run, and will say which two filters to choose between.