What's the go-to car history checking service?

What's the go-to car history checking service?

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Turbojuice

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610 posts

104 months

Saturday 16th March 2024
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I've seen a lot of stories of cars being sold by dealers with hidden histories (i.e. unrecorded damage), and that the usual hpi check does not reveal this but other services can and do.

Carvertical is the one that comes up often due to the endless adverts, Vcheck is the first one I ever heard of, and Totalcarcheck is recommended by Auto Express. There's also newer ones like Vehiclesmart and Carveto. In short it seems like a very saturated market and difficult to understand who is best and why. So what's everyone using please?

Feirny

2,757 posts

162 months

Saturday 16th March 2024
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Vcheck.

georgeyboy12345

3,919 posts

50 months

Saturday 16th March 2024
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Feirny said:
Vcheck.
This.

journeymanpro

859 posts

92 months

Saturday 16th March 2024
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Vcheck is all you need. Saved me from buying a car that had been through 2 salvage auctions following 2 seperate accidents.

ZX10R NIN

29,165 posts

140 months

Saturday 16th March 2024
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VCheck

Auto810graphy

1,579 posts

107 months

Sunday 17th March 2024
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Only safe way is a proper HPI check followed by a V-Check.

Turbojuice

Original Poster:

610 posts

104 months

Sunday 17th March 2024
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Vcheck it is. Cheers all

BigGingerBob

1,959 posts

205 months

Wednesday 21st May
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Sorry for the thread resurrection but I think my Tiguan I bought in September has been crashed.
Bought from a dealer, HPId etc but looking hard it looks like some repairs most of the way down the drivers side that has only become apparent recently.
Which service is most likely to pick this up?

MitchT

16,715 posts

224 months

Wednesday 21st May
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BigGingerBob said:
Sorry for the thread resurrection but I think my Tiguan I bought in September has been crashed.
Bought from a dealer, HPId etc but looking hard it looks like some repairs most of the way down the drivers side that has only become apparent recently.
Which service is most likely to pick this up?
If it wasn't written off then I'm not sure any service would pick it up. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

BigGingerBob

1,959 posts

205 months

Wednesday 21st May
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Fair enough, it's just the Car vertical ads always show photos of damaged cars. I just thought that maybe insurance claims get photographed for assessment.

mmm-five

11,721 posts

299 months

Wednesday 21st May
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BigGingerBob said:
Fair enough, it's just the Car vertical ads always show photos of damaged cars. I just thought that maybe insurance claims get photographed for assessment.
That's usually when they've been involved in an insurance write-off or claim and taken to a salvage yard.

If the owner repaired it at their own cost, without informing their insurer, it wouldn't be recorded/photographed.