Please read this entire page as it will reveal to you if a license plate search can be done for free or not, and helpful resources will be given on where one can retrieve these records.

Lets be honest, there aren’t many websites which provide a license plate number lookup service, but doing a search on google will show you quite a few organization’s which promise to give you details about anyone’s license plate number that you search for, for free!

But as you wait for your search to complete, you’re suddenly taken to a web page that states that you have to pay a joining fee to view the records. “But WAIT! I thought they said their service was free?!!!” Well, there are only a couple of these services available on the Internet and most of these so-called ‘organizations’ have bogus out-dated info, or are just blatant rip offs!

The truth is that you won’t find a free reverse license plate lookup service on the internet. Be my guest and do a google search, or look wherever you can…. You won’t find any! There are a couple of reasons for this and that is the DMV is really cracking down and one can’t just find this info floating around on the net. Also, with privacy laws getting stricter on a daily basis, this sort of sensitive information is not available to the general public anymore. Haven’t you heard of the phrase ‘There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch’ ?

There are a few legit services online which do exist, BUT, they are not free. I have personally used ‘Net Detective’ to find reverse records of license plates before and ‘Government Registry’ for background check services. Both have been in business for quite a number of years and I’ve been happy with their service.

Please know that all these investigative services do charge you to join because they have a lot of maintenance costs such as paying to gather all the records from different registries as well as keeping the records up to date.

I hope this page has helped debunking the myth about free license plate number lookups! Good Luck with your license plate search!