Greetings,

How can someone be sure that a car has no previous tickets or police records?

we bought a used car last month, from a nearby car dealer who lives few blocks from our place. The dealer suggested signing the V5C form in an earlier date to maintain the road tax. We hesitated at the beginning, but the dealer assured us that the car has not been used by nobody, and provided a written declaration and explanation of the actual day of acquisition via email. So we signed the form, dated few days earlier. the car has been HPI checked and all is okay, and we received our new V5C form.

later, however, we become concerned more and more, whether we may be responsible for anything wrong happened with this car during the few days gap before our actual acquisition of the car and the form date. I understand that it was wrong to sign the form in previous date, and we regret doing this, but my question how we may fix this, and how we may double check that there is no tickets or police records for this car?

any advice is appreciated, and many thanks in advance.

Dave