HPI CrushWatch, the online service helping
dealers and motor finance companies to identify vehicles that are
illegal or have finance payments in arrears, was used 5,324 times
in March, with police recovering 523 vehicles valued at
£2,628,202.

The figures show a 2.6 percent month-on-month
increase in the number of enquiries made to CrushWatch, with a 9.4
percent increase in the number of vehicles recovered as a result of
those enquiries.

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However, the total value of vehicles recovered
in March was only 1.5 percent higher than February because the
average value of the vehicles recovered was lower. The most
valuable car reclaimed in March was a £39,450 BMW X5, found by the
Wiltshire police. In contrast, three of the vehicles recovered in
February were worth more than £50,000, including a £90,190 Audi R8
Spyder Quattro reclaimed by the West Yorkshire constabulary.

The top marquee recovered in March was
Vauxhall, with 102 vehicles valued at £445,746, followed by 88
Fords worth £376,492. The most common model recovered was the
Vauxhall Astra, with 34 vehicles being seized with a combined value
of £147,877.

The month’s top performing police force was
Strathclyde, which recovered vehicles worth £349,240, followed by
the West Yorkshire force (£245,782) and Merseyside (£239,664).

In the first quarter of 2011, HPI CrushWatch’s
service was used more than 16,000 times, resulting in 1,512
vehicles being recovered worth 7,666,438. The most common marque
recovered was Vauxhall, with 285 vehicles reclaimed worth
1,101,391. In second place was Ford, with 250 vehicles with a total
value of 943,151.

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Although there was a dip in the number of
enquiries and recoveries in February compared to January, the total
value of vehicles recovered has shown an encouraging month-on-month
increase throughout the year so far, from 2.45 million in January,
to 2.59 million in February, to 2.63 million in March.