I wouldn't trust them all 100% at all
I've just sold my truck, and the prospective buyer did an HPI check - it came back as being Cat-D write off on 9/10/07 under the reg R77URF. However, this registration mark was not assigned to my vehicle untill the 26-11-2007 - so tell me how my truck was wrote off 2 months earlier when it had the reg FM04VKL on it and not the private plate?
A few disgruntled phonecalls later and all has been sorted - HPI have fucked up and assigned the damage details to the wrong chassis number - instead of assigning them to the chassis number for the truck that was wrote off, they have put it on my truck - and refuse to change it
But its all sorted now with confirmation of their bollock dropping - but it was hard work