A 40-point list of what to look at, what to drive for, and what to verify with a VIN check before you hand over money. Built from the same recall and complaint data we use inside our paid reports.
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The checklist isn’t a sales tool — it’s the thing we wish every buyer ran before they paid. About 60% of the value of the checklist is purely physical inspection and test-drive technique. The other 40% is verification against the public NHTSA recall and ODI complaint databases — which is what we automate with a VIN history report. The checklist tells you when a report would actually help; if you don’t need one, you don’t.