Website reputation report

car.co.uk

Last checked 13 hours ago · Point-in-time assessment

74/100Technical Safety ScoreIndependent technical assessment, not a visitor rating
● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

Scrap car prices in the UK are determined by metal prices, car weight, and condition. Learn how these factors affect your car's scrap value in 2026.

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

74/100Safety Score
70%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History95 Infrastructure92 Website Security95 Security Hygiene50 Transparency55 Reputation50 Operational Stability96
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Current report context

What changed since the last scan

  • No earlier report to compare
What this scan could verify · 6 observed, 0 unavailable
DNS observed
Registration lookup observed
Network observed
TLS observed
Website response observed
Website content observed

Unavailable and unperformed checks are not clean results. The detailed evidence below remains the source for each conclusion.

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Independent evidence brief

What we observed about car.co.uk

Updated Oct 22, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on car.co.uk. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its About page, the site says: Scrap car prices in the UK are determined by metal prices, car weight, and condition. Learn how these factors affect your car's scrap value…

Registrar and domain history

Registered on Aug 18, 1995. Registrar: New Reg Limited.

Recorded expiry date: Aug 18, 2027. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring May 5, 2027.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 74/100. Evidence Confidence: 70%. These measure different things.

Community reviews of car.co.uk

No approved reviews yet ☆☆☆☆☆

Visitor experiences are separate from the independent technical Safety Score.

Visitor opinions remain separate from the technical Safety Score.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on car.co.uk

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

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Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on car.co.uk

12 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

sellTitle, H1, Meta description4 sampled pages
in secondsTitle, H1, Meta description6 sampled pages
freeTitle, Meta description7 sampled pages
scrapTitle, H1, Meta description4 sampled pages
instantTitle, Meta description6 sampled pages
collectionTitle, Meta description5 sampled pages
quoteTitle, Meta description4 sampled pages
an instantMeta description4 sampled pages
nearTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
instant quoteTitle, Meta description3 sampled pages
free collectionTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages
adviceTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Verify before sensitive actions

Check the exact URL and context before payments, credentials, or downloads.

Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
95/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
92/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
50/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
55/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
96/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLNo signature match in the sampled HTML
Engine version1.5.4
Signature database date (UTC)2026-10-22T06:24:11+00:00
HTML bytes submitted526,808
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-10-22T06:00:08+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,082

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

6 resources checked · 9 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts9
Inline scripts0
Embedded frames0
External script hosts0

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

Partial analysis. Only the first 512 KiB of the page were inspected.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domaincar.co.uk
RegistrarNew Reg Limited
RegisteredAug 18, 1995
Domain age31 years
ExpiresAug 18, 2027
Registry statusesactive
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address13.227.173.123
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNAmazon CloudFront
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://www.car.co.uk:443/
Endpoint13.227.173.123
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFAmazon CloudFront · Not detected
DNS surface23 records · 4 nameservers · 1 mail exchangers
Protection signals2 security headers · 4 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size526,808 bytes
HTTP check duration0 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources9 · 0 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 6 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Amazon, commonName=Amazon RSA 2048 M04
Valid fromOct 20, 2026
Valid untilMay 5, 2027
Certificate names*.beta.car.co.uk · *.car.co.uk · *.dev.car.co.uk · *.gamma.car.co.uk · car.co.uk

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A13.227.173.123TTL —
A13.227.173.41TTL —
A13.227.173.82TTL —
A13.227.173.83TTL —
NSns-1197.awsdns-21.orgTTL —
NSns-1548.awsdns-01.co.ukTTL —
NSns-259.awsdns-32.comTTL —
NSns-647.awsdns-16.netTTL —
MX10 car-co-uk.mail.protection.outlook.comTTL —
TXTahrefs-site-verification_2f7349e880b20f1a0effcf4fb1b4ae14972e5f739f2169c00bc802ad95f024fdTTL —
TXTanthropic-domain-verification-s1vy95=vjKYv3j3fifJZAs8JmXL0A6kiTTL —
TXTatlassian-domain-verification=1YIl3f5suaCTi8LkdKpfnqx52EyWKjpDfdzGnJTdI1XbCC9qCWFDtLHRldxLFXnsTTL —
TXTfacebook-domain-verification=jjem3gtki6fx4cvhxn50107rawljq6TTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=0CdfTtLRYO8Ku1mmVcZDh07xgi1efVVNecLjsOVEI5oTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=2JkOdIzwriYk-meu37ASR-gClwbg3PnAGdBhipQOkIoTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=3zNFjLJNSR_VUZ9xCCKFP7IOLoZND5WLPym-24I5WCkTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=6eB4oOzTsVOiyaRnprAG4t6VLH2T1e0HKz6s7i4BVUETTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=rVd-h6qwa1wvj9UIOikL3M0PpsHJKiPWj4_DE20RpKoTTL —
TXThave-i-been-pwned-verification=dweb_a6kliw9wkf2l1salegrqlwfeTTL —
TXTtinfoil-site-verification: 9a5ee2d0b0050adac5360b5485ff9ce5e26bcab1=01cb0ebba9ca1b31152b4cf6ffc828ab2fff2d60TTL —
TXTtwilio-domain-verification=ee28e7bb0081991ea657cb1e087b3f19TTL —
TXTv=spf1 a mx include:spf.protection.outlook.com -allTTL —
TXTyandex-verification: 48f506dd1ff9b70bTTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFPolicy record observed, not fully validated
DMARCMonitoring-only DMARC policy

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

2 observed
content-security-policypresent child-src 'self' https://*.google.com https://*.googletagmanager.com https://*.stripe.com https://*.facebook.com https://widget.trustpilot.com/ https://carcouk.autoserver.co.uk https://analytics.webgains.io https://*.doubleclick.net; frame-ancestors 'self';
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation

No Set-Cookie header was observed on the sampled homepage response. Other pages may set cookies separately.

Detected stack

Technologies

Bootstrap 80% Next.js 96% Nginx 93% Tailwind CSS 72%

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

4 sampled JavaScript files checked locally with Retire.js. Database snapshot: 2026-10-22T02:40:07.901Z.

No supported library version was identified in the sampled files. This does not establish that the scripts are safe.

A version match is not proof that the website is infected or that an issue is exploitable here. Owners should review the advisory, check whether their code is affected and test an update. Up to four external script files are sampled, not every dependency, inline script or dynamically loaded resource.

Recommended maintenance checks

Next.jsKeep Next.js and its runtime dependencies current, especially when server-side rendering is enabled.
NginxReview the Nginx branch and keep security patches current. Avoid exposing detailed server version headers.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Scrap car prices in the UK are determined by metal prices, car weight, and condition. Learn how these factors affect your car's scrap value in 2026.

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Publisher supplied

Public contact details

These details were observed on the website, not independently verified as an active support channel.

Emailhelp@car.co.ukSource: https://www.car.co.uk:443/contact
Emailpress@car.co.ukSource: https://www.car.co.uk:443/contact

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleSell My Car Online – Easy, Trusted & 100% Free - Car.co.uk
First headingSell my car online in 30 seconds
DescriptionSell your car easily with Car.co.uk. Get an instant online quote, choose a collection time and receive immediate payment. No hidden fees.
Canonical URLhttps://www.car.co.uk/
Final URLhttps://www.car.co.uk:443/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=utf-8 · duration unavailable
Languageen
Structured typesOrganization
Page page detectedhttps://www.car.co.uk:443/mediaAbout page detectedhttps://www.car.co.uk:443/media/guides/scrapping-your-car/scrap-car-prices-everything-there-is-to-know-about-uk-scrap-carContact page detectedhttps://www.car.co.uk:443/contact
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp has default src100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp has object src100% evidence confidence
23100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
31536000100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp wildcard sources100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp unsafe inline100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp unsafe eval100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.car.co.uk:443/

The chain is shown exactly as observed by the scanner. A redirect is not itself a malware finding, but unexpected domains or an HTTP downgrade deserve review.

Premium monitoring

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
bright-beacon-path-252

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

Show change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

Website icon for car.co.uk

Visual evidence

Website screenshot

car.co.ukPreview unavailable

No usable browser image was saved. The website icon is separate from a screenshot and is not visual evidence of the page.

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Questions about car.co.uk

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Is car.co.uk safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 74/100 with 70% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on car.co.uk?

ClamAV found no signature match in the sampled homepage HTML. External scripts, downloads and private server files were not checked. This is not a whole-site malware clearance.

When was car.co.uk registered?

The public registry record shows Aug 18, 1995. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did car.co.uk have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.3. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

How does car.co.uk describe itself?

The website's About page describes its purpose in the report above. This is publisher-supplied information and is separate from independent security findings.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.

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