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What's included
Every check returns the same complete picture, whether you searched by plate or VIN, and whatever the vehicle: car, ute, motorbike, truck, caravan or trailer.
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Money owing
Security interests registered against the vehicle, including the secured party's name and contact details. If the seller still owes money, the lender can repossess the car from you.
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Written off
NEVDIS write-off notifications — statutory and repairable — plus flood and collision damage records reported by any state authority.
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Stolen
Police theft records covering the vehicle itself, the number plates and the engine number.
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Registration
The state or territory of registration, the plate on record and the registration expiry date.
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Vehicle details
Make, model, body type, colour, year of manufacture, compliance date and engine number.
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Official certificate
A PPSR search certificate as a PDF — your legal proof the search was made.
Why the certificate matters
The certificate is not a receipt. Under the Personal Property Securities Act 2009, a buyer who searched the register before buying is in a very different position from one who did not. If a financier later claims an interest in the vehicle, the certificate is the document that establishes what the register said at the moment you searched, with the date and time on it.
We send it exactly as the register issues it. We do not reformat it, restyle it, or put our own branding on it.
What a check does not tell you
A PPSR check is a records search, not an inspection. It will not tell you whether the clutch is going, whether the service history is genuine, or whether the odometer has been wound back. Those need a mechanical inspection and the vehicle's service records.
It also reports what is on the register at the moment of the search. A finance interest registered tomorrow will not appear in a search run today — which is why a free re-check is included for 14 days where a security interest was found.†
How it reaches you
Always by email: the plain-English summary, the certificate attached as a PDF, and a report link that works for 30 days and runs the free re-check.
Optionally by SMS as well, free at checkout. One text with the headline answer — finance, stolen, written off — and the link. If the finance position changes during the 14-day re-check window, you get a second text. Australian mobiles only; reply STOP to opt out at any time.
Every vehicle type
The register covers any vehicle with a VIN or chassis number: cars, utes, vans, motorbikes, trucks, buses, caravans, campervans, trailers and boat trailers. Plant and machinery with a serial number are also registrable, though a plate search will not reach them.
* Delivery time. Reports are issued within minutes while the Personal Property Securities Register is available. The register has scheduled maintenance windows, set out in our Terms & Conditions. A search requested during a maintenance window is issued as soon as the register reopens.
† Free re-check. The 14-day free re-check applies only to vehicles that returned a registered security interest (finance owing). It re-checks whether those security interest details have changed. Stolen and written-off records are not re-checked.