Sell to UK used car dealers

What people sell to used car dealers

If you are one of these, this market is a list rather than a guess. Every company below is on the public record with its registered office, incorporation date, officers and filing history.

• Motor trade insurance and road risk cover
• Stocking finance and consumer finance brokers
• Dealer management systems and forecourt software
• Vehicle history, valuation and provenance data
• Warranty and GAP product providers
• Photography, listings and advertising services

What SIC 45112 actually tells you

The gap between first-position and any-position filers is unusually tight here, which makes it one of the cleaner codes to filter on: a company carrying 45112 almost always really is selling cars. Pair it with 45400 if you also want the motorcycle trade, and with the repair codes in division 45 if your product suits a workshop as well as a forecourt.

In numbers: 32,475 companies put 45112 first and 3,308 carry it in one of their other three SIC slots, so 91 per cent of the population leads with it. Together they are 0.7 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register.

Worth pulling alongside it: 45400 (sale, maintenance and repair of motorcycles and related parts and accessories).

Used car and light vehicle dealers by post town

Measured on the August 2026 register, these are the registered-office post towns with the most used car dealers. London holds 11 per cent of the national population on its own. A registered office is where the paperwork sits rather than where the work happens, so treat this as where to start looking, not as a service area.

• London3,960
• Birmingham1,062
• Manchester882
• Leicester520
• Bradford458

Timing

Forecourt businesses turn over faster than most trades, so recency matters more than usual: a list eighteen months old will be substantially wrong. The public record refreshes daily, which is the point of building the list from it rather than buying one.

A worked filter for this market: SIC 45112, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days. That turns 35,783 companies into a list you can write to in an afternoon. Add the poor-website filter if what you sell is a web presence, or a recent change of officer if you sell to whoever just took the job.

The rest of division 45

A trade rarely sits in exactly one code. Used car and light vehicle dealers is in division 45, wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, and the codes below are its nearest neighbours on the public record: another 92,097 companies describing themselves in adjacent terms. If your product suits the wider trade rather than this one code, pull two or three of them together.

• 45200 · Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles57,505
• 45320 · Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories13,422
• 45190 · Sale of other motor vehicles6,527
• 45310 · Wholesale trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories6,470
• 45111 · Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles4,525
• 45400 · Sale, maintenance and repair of motorcycles and related parts and accessories3,648

You only pay for leads that arrive complete.

You carry the bounce rate and the compliance risk for data somebody else assembled and will not explain

Leads that arrive verified with the filing behind each field, so the ICO question has a written answer

Every used car dealer you pull arrives with its Companies House record, the director’s name, a verified website and a verified email. The ones we cannot complete are not charged for.

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Before the first car lands

Thirty-five thousand used car dealers, and nine in ten of them say so in their first SIC code.

Watch it on its own page, with the full transcript.

Common questions