What you'll see on the result page
Three things, in the order a buyer thinks about them.
- When the current APK expires — so you know whether you can drive it home tomorrow, or whether you are negotiating against a deadline.
- What the last inspector actually noted — the exact deficiency text, not a paraphrase. Worn brakes, corrosion, a warning light that should not be on.
- The pattern over time — is this a decade of clean inspections, or a decade of deferred advisories that got cleaned up the week before sale?
Straight from the RDW — nothing we invent
Every APK data point you see comes from the RDW open data service. The same record insurers, the police, and garages rely on. We do not edit it, we do not paraphrase it away, we show you what the inspector wrote.
Three things a history catches that a test drive won't
- Repeat advisories. The same finding on three consecutive inspections usually means the owner was kicking it down the road.
- Long gaps between inspections. Often the car was stored, laid up after a repair, or off the road for a reason no one is mentioning.
- The fresh-APK tell. A suspiciously clean inspection the week before a sale, after years of borderline ones, is worth a follow-up question.