ebay motors Autocheck reports

Christien · Christien's Garage

Just a warning for anyone buying cars on ebay - the autocheck report data does NOT search Canadian databases. I've had a repo Caravan listed on there for sale, and just noticed that the autocheck report is completely clean. I know for a fact that this car had an accident insurance claim of just over $2500 back in Jan/04, because it shows up on the CarProof report (Canadian report system similar to Carfax, but FAR more reliable and in-depth, and puts Carfax to shame). Furthermore, it shows no loan/lien history on it - also not true.

It may work fine for US vehicle, I'm not sure, but just keep this in mind if you happen to be looking at a Canadian car.

biosurfer1 · 06-30-2010, 09:21 AM

well, you get what you pay for

I don't put a whole lot of weight on those things like carfax, etc. A nice place to start but ultimately, any car you buy you should do your own DD.

Thanks for the heads up...sadly, not surprising.

kaisen · 06-30-2010, 10:32 AM

All the reports are only as good as the data they buy.

phoenix_iii · 07-01-2010, 05:15 AM

Thanks OP!

speeder · 07-01-2010, 06:27 AM

They are a lot better than nothing. They at least tell me where a car has been all its life, whether it was leased or a rental car, etc. Sometimes they reveal a diamond in the rough. An example would be a late-model car in the NY/NE area that really spent its life in the south where used cars are a LOT nicer. (Or vice-versa). People bid according to many factors but geographical location is a huge factor if the vehicle is more than a couple years old.

Agree with above comments but for free, I think they're great.