Finding a car's owner

A car's owner can be found by plate number through register search services based on official data. Owner details are part of the vehicle register maintained by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom, and their disclosure is based on a data request with an acceptable purpose.

16500.fi offers a service that gets you the car owner's name quickly and reliably. License plate search works easily online or by SMS, and is based on up-to-date official sources.

To find a car's owner, enter the plate number in a service that retrieves the details directly from the vehicle register. The details come from official sources, and the owner's name may be disclosed to a private person e.g. for buying the vehicle or another legitimate need.

16500.fi license plate search is a quick and easy way to find owner details.

Contact details such as phone numbers aren't available directly from the vehicle register. However, Traficom's authorized partners let you look up the owner's or holder's contact details once your plate number search has found a match.

If you need to contact a vehicle's owner, e.g. after damage, you can do a follow-up search with 16500.fi SMS search to find the owner's phone number. The follow-up search costs €1.50.

Yes, you can also get the car owner's name and the vehicle's basic details by SMS. This is especially handy when you don't have internet access. The service provider tells you which number to text and in what format.

Get the vehicle's basic details quickly by texting the plate number to 16500 (example: ABC-123). Add T2 to the start of the message for the car's history, or T3 for full register details (example: T3 ABC-123).

The vehicle register doesn't contain phone numbers, so they can't be searched by plate number. However, license plate search shows the owner's name, after which you can try to find the phone number from directory services or company details, if the vehicle is company-owned.

Strict privacy practices apply to private persons' contact details. If you need to contact a vehicle's owner, e.g. after damage, the 16500.fi search service gets you at least a name, which you can use to find a way to contact them.