How to Read an AutoCheck Report

Reading an AutoCheck Report

Sample Report

See the basic information about your vehicle and how many records we have. Enter your VIN to get started!

Let’s review a sample AutoCheck report in detail.  Click here to review a sample AutoCheck report.

Part 1 – Summary

The Report Summary provides general information about the vehicle, the vehicle’s AutoCheck Score and whether the vehicle qualifies for Buyback Protection. The vehicle’s history is summarized under “Section summaries”. A green check mark icon means no reported problems. A blue letter “i” means there is information to report. A red exclamation point “!” means a reported problem. Because this is a clean report, you won’t see any red exclamation points on this example.

Title and Problem Check

There are 15 Title/Problem areas that have ZERO problems; this is good.

If ANY of these 15 items was reported you MUST bypass the car – this has to be perfect!

Odometer Check

Odometers, even the newest electronic ones, can be tampered with.  The electronic ones can easily be monkeyed with by a Geek – the internet is full of documents describing exactly how to roll back the mileage on them.

So AutoCheck keeps track of the odometer mileage and if you ever see a red mark run from that car.

Vehicle Use and Event Check

6 horrible uses of the used car are checked – if just one of them is not green checked run from this car – it’s a turkey.  9 critical events are checked too – if one of them is not green checked you need to run away from this hunk of junk car.

Full History

EVERY LINE in the Full History section need to be read and understood – every line.  In the sample report above the used car has MAJOR problems with passing the emission inspection – everyone of those means a mechanic had to fix something – this happened 3 times and this car is a turkey – avoid buying it is what the detail says.

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