VIN check with carVIN: car history report with a carVertical discount

The VIN decoder reads the data the factory built into the vehicle identification number: make, model, model year and assembly plant, often the engine and the equipment as well. History services go further and search registers and databases for the same 17 characters.

That is how a check can show what was recorded about a car from the factory to today: registrations, odometer readings, damage or a theft report. On carvin.io the search is run by carVertical, and the result is a report with the records found for your VIN.

A VIN check collects the records that exist for the vehicle, for example:

• vehicle data: make, model, country and date of manufacture, engine power, body, fuel and gearbox;
• history: odometer readings, recorded accidents and damage, theft reports, inspections, the countries where the car was registered;
• photos of the car from earlier listings;
• factory equipment and known weak points of the model.

What a report contains depends on what was recorded for that VIN. No records does not mean the car has no faults.

Sellers of used cars do not always tell everything. A rolled-back odometer or repaired accident damage is hard to spot at a viewing.

Some faults do not show on a test drive or a walk around the car, others only a mechanic will find. A VIN check shows before the viewing what was recorded: mileage, damage, theft. If you are selling, a report you can show helps the buyer trust your car.