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# carwow.co.uk

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## Website

carwow.co.uk

Carwow | The free, easy way to change your car online Carwow brings you the best offers from thousands of trusted dealers so you can buy or sell your car in just a few clicks. Buy. Sell. WOW.

youtube.com

[Who knew the Nissan Micra was this quick!](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HpNG3LmKX2g)

Who knew the Nissan Micra was this quick! The latest video on its YouTube channel

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 21:16 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 86 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

86 / 100

High truth signals

Top 10% of businesses we’ve checked

## Business details

Category: Car buying service

Years in business: 16 years

Founded: 2013

Founded by: James Hind

Places to visit: 1 office London

Registered with: FCA, firm 767155 Matched on the FCA register

Sells to: The public

Domain age: 15 years

Address: [2nd Floor, Verde Building, 10 Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DH, England](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=2nd%20Floor%2C%20Verde%20Building%2C%2010%20Bressenden%20Place%2C%20London%2C%20SW1E%205DH%2C%20England)

Email address: contact@carwow.co.uk

Phone number: [+44 20 4586 4000](tel:+44%2020%204586%204000)

Contact page: [carwow.co.uk/contact-us](https://carwow.co.uk/contact-us)

Website: [carwow.co.uk](https://carwow.co.uk/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

Social media: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/carwowuk/) [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/carwow/) [X.com](https://twitter.com/carwowuk/) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/carwow/) [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@carwow) [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/Carwow/)

## Do the sources agree?

Address: 2nd Floor, Verde Building, 10 Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DH, England Its website agrees Companies House agrees OpenStreetMap agrees Web Data Commons not found

Phone number: +44 20 4586 4000 Its website agrees OpenStreetMap differs Web Data Commons not found

Sources give different numbers · OpenStreetMap has +44 800 808 5885

Company name: CARWOW LTD Its website agrees Companies House agrees

## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

No reviews we could read We looked on SmartCustomer, G2, Capterra, Reviews.io, Feefo, Trustindex, ComplaintsBoard and ConsumerAffairs

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a [Trustpilot page](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/carwow.co.uk), which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · No reviews found

App experience Insufficient evidence · No app ratings found

## Summary

Is carwow.co.uk legit and trustworthy? Truth score 86 out of 100, high truth signals: 9 public checks clear, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

carwow.co.uk is run by Carwow LTD, an active UK company registered at Companies House 16 years ago, and was founded in 2013. Its website address was registered 15 years ago. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find a customer rating.

### Positives

- An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 16 years ago.
- Its website address was registered 15 years ago.
- The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

### Not found

- Reviews information was not found from our checks.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

### What they offer

Carwow brings you the best offers from thousands of trusted dealers so you can buy or sell your car in just a few clicks. Buy. Sell. WOW.

— Carwow, in their own words

Where to find them

Places: 1 office, in London · [See it on OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5573496976)

About them

Customer stories: [Reviews](https://www.carwow.co.uk/car-reviews)

Sources [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) [Its homepage](https://www.carwow.co.uk/)

### Latest YouTube video

[Who knew the Nissan Micra was this quick!](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HpNG3LmKX2g)

Correct as of 12 Nov 2026, 21:16

### How to check if carwow.co.uk is legit

To check if carwow.co.uk is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about carwow.co.uk; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 16 years ago

- Its registered office at Companies House is 2nd Floor, Verde Building, 10 Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DH, England
- Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 31 December 2025
- It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
- Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data

Country

Where the company is based: UK

Why we believe that: it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses, the site's structured data states its country, its legal pages give an address in England, its terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, its phone number starts +44, its postcode is a UK postcode

Which countries the company serves: UK

Why we believe that: its address ends .uk, £ prices on its homepage, it publishes pages in 3 languages, its structured data names the area it serves

Registration

Companies House registration: Registered as CARWOW LTD

Data protection registration (ICO): Registered, number ZA152836

VAT number: Not found

Companies House register

Company found in official company register: Yes

Registered company name: CARWOW LTD

Company status: active

Company age: 16 years

Registered address: 2nd Floor, Verde Building, 10 Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DH, England

Accounts overdue: No

Confirmation statement overdue: No

Insolvency history: No

Registered office in dispute: No

Filing history consistent: Yes

ICO data-protection fee payer: Yes

Registered to do: 58142 Publishing of consumer and business journals and periodicals
62090 Other information technology service activities

Previous names: DIGITAL BLURB LIMITED (12 Dec 2009 to 4 Dec 2015)

Companies the site names: CARWOW LTD (07103079)
CARWOW LEASEY LIMITED (13601174)

Company type: Private limited company

Size and borrowing

Accounts filed: Group accounts Accounts for a parent company and the companies it owns.

Secured loans (charges): 0 No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.

From Wikipedia

Founded: 2013

Sources [Companies House](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07103079) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carwow) [ICO register entry](https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/ZA152836)

Official registers On the FCA register as firm 767155. Matched on its website.

FCA firm: FCA, firm 767155

Domain registration Its website address was registered 15 years ago

Domain age: 15 years

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=carwow.co.uk)

Website details We read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy

- Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: [+44 20 4586 4000](tel:+442045864000)

Contact page found: Yes

Sources agreeing on postcode: 2

Hosting company: Fastly, Inc.

What its pages say

In their own words: “What started as a simple reviews site, is now one of the largest online car-changing destinations in Europe. Over 12M customers have used Carwow to buy or sell their car. Last year we grew over 50% with nearly £3 billion worth of cars bought on our site, while £1.8 billion of cars were listed for sale through our Sell My Car service.”

Who you're buying from: “We are registered in England and Wales under company number 07103079 and have our registered office at 2nd Floor, 10 Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DH.”

Sources [Homepage](https://carwow.co.uk/) [Contact page](https://carwow.co.uk/contact-us) [About page](https://carwow.co.uk/about-us) [Terms page](https://carwow.co.uk/terms-and-conditions) [Privacy page](https://carwow.co.uk/privacy-policy)

Search engines and AI Lets in search engines and AI answers; blocks 1 of 7 AI training tools

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by default Googlebot

Bing: Allowed by default Bingbot

AI training

1 of 7 blocked

OpenAI: Allowed by default GPTBot

Anthropic: Allowed by default ClaudeBot

Google AI: Allowed by default Google-Extended

Apple AI: Allowed by default Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Allowed by default CCBot

Meta: Blocked by its robots.txt meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by default Bytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by default OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Allowed by default ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Allowed by default Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User

Perplexity: Allowed by default PerplexityBot

User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: /

Sources [robots.txt](https://carwow.co.uk/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints It has a review page on [Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/carwow.co.uk)

Platform · Rating · Reviews

[Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/carwow.co.uk) · Unknown · Unknown

Visitor traffic Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 100,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 50,000 sites

First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier

Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24

Traffic pattern: sustained

Rank jump in the last 12 months: none

Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 100,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up carwow.co.uk, by country, over the last 2 days.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 Singapore 61.1%
- 2 United Kingdom 16.9%
- 3 United States 9.1%
- 4 Netherlands 1.4%
- 5 Germany 1.4%
- 6 Canada 1.0%
- 7 Indonesia 1.0%
- 8 Sweden 0.7%
- 9 Portugal 0.7%
- 10 Pakistan 0.7%

Top 10 of 26 countries.

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/carwow.co.uk)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 13 years ago

Website archive history: 13 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20130510/carwow.co.uk)

Social presence It is on 6 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X.com and YouTube); the largest audience is 11,200,000 subscribers on YouTube

Found · Platform · Audience

Found by Truth Signal · [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/carwowuk/) · 2,781,577 followers

Found by Truth Signal · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/carwow/) · 2,000,000 followers

Found by Truth Signal · [X.com](https://twitter.com/carwowuk/) · Unknown

Found by Truth Signal · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/carwow/) · Unknown

Found by Truth Signal · [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/Carwow/) · 11,200,000 subscribers

Found by Truth Signal · [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@carwow) · 1,300,000 followers

· · 17,281,577 followers total

YouTube channel: 3,668 videos, 11,200,000 subscribers, last upload 12 Nov 2026

YouTube Data 1,589,417 views a video, 1,241,213 views a day and a new video every 1.3 days

[carwow](https://www.youtube.com/@carwow) @carwow

Views per video 5,829,979,792 views ÷ 3,668 videos: 1,589,417

Views a day 5,829,979,792 views ÷ 4,697 days: 1,241,213

Views per subscriber 5,829,979,792 views ÷ 11,200,000 subscribers: 521

New subscribers a day 11,200,000 subscribers ÷ 4,697 days: 2,385

Subscribers per 1,000 views 11,200,000 subscribers ÷ 5,829,979,792 views × 1,000: 1.9

Subscribers per video 11,200,000 subscribers ÷ 3,668 videos: 3,053

Days between videos 4,697 days ÷ 3,668 videos: 1.3

Channel age 2 January 2014 to 12 November 2026: 12 years 10 months

Subscribers: 11,200,000

Views: 5,829,979,792

Videos: 3,668

Started: 2 January 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Language: Not stated

Topics: Lifestyle, Motorsport, Vehicle

Made for children: No

Website in its description: Not stated

Trailer: Yes

Sources [Its YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@carwow) [YouTube Terms of Service](https://www.youtube.com/t/terms) Read 12 November 2026

### What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy says We found this business stores and uses your data

May send your data to other countries.: “When we transfer personal information outside the European Economic Area we will, as required by applicable law, ensure that your privacy rights are adequately protected by appropriate safeguards, (including by using the EU Standard Contractual Clauses), or by an adequacy decision of the European Commission.”

Source [Its privacy policy](https://www.carwow.co.uk/privacy-policy)

Tracking tools on its homepage Google Tag Manager and Google Ads

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.

Google Ads: Tracks what you do to show you Google adverts.

Source [Its homepage](https://carwow.co.uk/)

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security Its email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked

Email

MX records: Yes

SPF record: Yes

DKIM key: Yes

DMARC record: Yes

DMARC policy: reject

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No

Certificate issuer: Certainly

Certificate type: DV

Certificate expires: 2 Dec 2026

Hosting

Nameservers: ns1.dnsimple-edge.com
ns2.dnsimple-edge.net
ns3.dnsimple-edge.io
ns4.dnsimple-edge.org

Address: 199.232.170.133

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=carwow.co.uk&rr_type=TXT)

### Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS record Not added yet +3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.

When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.

Points: 0 of 3 added

Source carwow.co.uk's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.

When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source Truth Signal's own records

Run carwow.co.uk? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/carwow.co.uk)

Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.

When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source carwow.co.uk/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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- Social Followers
- Data points

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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 86, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/carwow.co.uk/report/2026-11.md

## Cite

Truth Signal, Carwow: truth score 86 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/carwow.co.uk. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/carwow.co.uk.json
