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Vehicles

Cars, vans, bikes — anything with a UK registration plate. Maud fills in everything DVLA + DVSA know automatically; you focus on the bits only you have.

Adding a vehicle

Click Add another vehicle in the dashboard's Vehicles section. Two fields:

  • Vehicle name — a short label you'd recognise on a document. "Tesla", "The Land Rover", or just the registration.
  • Registration plate (optional) — if you supply this, Maud hits the DVLA Vehicle Enquiry Service and the DVSA MOT History API and pre-fills make, year, fuel, engine size, colour, CO₂, current tax status, MOT status, MOT expiry date (or, for a car that's never had one, when its first MOT is due), last test mileage, and total test count.

Both lookups are free, official, and read-only. We cache the result on the model and only re-call the APIs when you click Refresh, or when an MOT or tax date is close: once a week Maud re-checks any vehicle with a date in the next five weeks or already passed, so a new MOT or tax renewal shows up without you doing anything. Vehicles whose dates are months away aren't re-checked.

If you skip the plate, the page still works — you can add it later from the Checklist tab.

What appears on the vehicle page

Same two-tab layout as houses:

  • Checklist (default) — the schedule + a DVLA panel + a list of expected documents with their status.
  • All documents — every document filed against this vehicle. Tag filter chips appear above the list when any docs are tagged; click chips to narrow down (multi-select AND-combines).

The DVLA panel shows the plate, make, year, fuel and colour as a header, plus two status cards:

  • MOT — Valid until 12 Mar 2027, Expired 5 Jan 2025, First MOT due 9 Apr 2027 (or First MOT overdue since …) for a car under three years old, or No MOT yet (vehicle may be under 3 years old) when DVLA and DVSA don't say.
  • Tax — Taxed until 1 Aug 2026, SORN, or Untaxed.

Click Refresh any time to re-pull live status — useful right after you re-tax or after the annual MOT.

Adding documents to a vehicle

The All documents tab has a drag-and-drop zone at the top: drop files (or click to pick them) and they're filed straight onto this vehicle. You don't need to confirm each one — the document is born attached to this car, with the AI's other guesses (doctype, dates, provider, tags) applied as-is. If you want to tweak any of them, click Review on the row once the file's landed.

Same shortcut as on a property page; use it for the insurance schedule that just landed in the post, photos of a service stamp, MOT certificates, etc.

The vehicle schedule

Universal items (every vehicle):

  • V5C / vehicle log book — the DVLA registration certificate
  • MOT certificate — annually after age 3 (the slot is auto-suppressed for vehicles under 3 years old)
  • Insurance certificate — annual; legally required to drive
  • Vehicle tax (VED) confirmation — DVLA renewal record / SORN declaration
  • Service history / service book — stamps or digital service record
  • Purchase invoice / receipt — proves date and price
  • Warranty / aftersales pack — manufacturer warranty + extended cover
  • Manufacturer recall notices — completion letters per VIN

Each Why & how expander explains why it matters (sale-time relevance, warranty claims, insurance disputes) and where to get one if you've lost it.

What's not in the schedule yet

A future iteration will add lookup-driven specifics:

  • MOT advisories — the DVSA API returns the full test history including advisory items; we don't yet surface these as their own action items.
  • Insurance group / ULEZ status — derivable from the make/year/fuel data we already pull.
  • Service interval reminders — manufacturer-spec service intervals.

If you want to track any of these, drop a note in the GitHub issues.