Resources

Everything in one place

Tools, guides and the documentation behind the numbers.

Tools

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The full report: identity, recalls, mileage, Deal Score and verdict.

Decode a VIN to year, make, model, trim and full specifications.

Published NHTSA safety recall campaigns, with defect and remedy.

Buyer, dealer, quick-sale and listing values explained.

Value a vehicle from its exact build specification.

Up to three reports side by side.

The background worth having before you go and look at a car.

All 17 positions, the check digit, and the model year table.

Six locations, ranked by how hard each is to fake.

Four stages, from before you travel to before you pay.

What happens between the VIN and the verdict.

How the numbers are produced, and what they are not.

Deal Score weights, Data Coverage domains, mileage baseline.

Every source, what it can verify, and what it cannot.

A complete report using clearly-labelled demonstration data.

The limits of what this service is.

What happens to your VIN. Short answer: it is not stored.

Manufacturer-specific VIN structure, WMI prefixes, VIN locations and the quirks that catch people out on each badge.