Check prohibited vehicles for provisional P1 and P2 drivers

Introduction

Both P1 provisional licence holders and P2 provisional licence holders are banned from driving high performance vehicles that have:

• a power to tare mass ratio of greater than 130kW per tonne
• modified engines that need to be approved by an engineer
• other vehicles classified as high performance.

If you're a P1 or P2 provisional licence holder and want to check if you're allowed to drive a certain vehicle, you can do this online.

What you need

You can use any combination of the following vehicle details to search: 

• make
• model
• badge, or 
• year of manufacture.

How to check

1. Check the box to confirm you've read and agree to the disclaimer and notice.
2. Select the 'P1/P2 vehicle search' button.
3. Enter the vehicle details using the drop-down fields.
4. Select the 'Search' button.