Autocheck.ie or Cartell.ie??

Kinetic^

I know a few of you have used Cartell.ie but has anyone used Autocheck.ie?

Which is better?

PauloMN

Kenny 5 wrote:

I know a few of you have used Cartell.ie but has anyone used Autocheck.ie?

Which is better?

Never used Autocheck, never even heard of it until now, but interestingly it claims to have an odometer check which is something that Cartell does not have.

I.S.T.

PauloMN wrote:

Never used Autocheck, never even heard of it until now, but interestingly it claims to have an odometer check which is something that Cartell does not have.

Here is the description of the odometer check from their site. Doesn't sound too useful, how would they have the mileage in their database? How is this information collected?

* Odometer:

If you have entered the vehicles current mileage we will tell you if our database contains any contradicory readings and thereby alert you to whether any further investigation is required.

Anan1

* Odometer:

If you have entered the vehicles current mileage we will tell you if our database contains any contradicory readings and thereby alert you to whether any further investigation is required.

This is actually worse than useless, as it implies that, if they don't have a contradictory reading, no further investigation is required.

R.O.R

Autocheck.ie is brought to you by the good people who brought you Motorcard.ie

Not sure how they get the data on mileage, but the finance checking side of things is through HPi.

Henry Ford III

Cartell don't offer any insight on mileage, and Autocheck will alert you if the spot anything suspicious.

Not good enough.

It would not be difficult nor expensive to offer a guaranteed milometer reading.

Seth Brundle

There is no way of guarranteeing an odometer reading. It may be possible to hook into the manufacturers/dealers systems but this won't cover all cars and would be difficult enough.
The NCT is the only 'independent' way of checking the readings and their figures are not rerleased - even to the current owner.

Henry Ford III

What I meant was offer a warranty against an incorrect reading. HPI do this (up to STG£10000), so why isn't it possible here?

Seth Brundle

It isn't possible because our system of record collection is basically non-existent.
We should have something whereby the milage is recorded when tax is being applied for (with random checks) and also make the NCT recordings available.
However, in this, the IT hub or Europe (or whatever bulls**t terminology the government use for this country), we haven't a hope of getting this done!

Henry Ford III

kbannon wrote:

It isn't possible because our system of record collection is basically non-existent.
We should have something whereby the milage is recorded when tax is being applied for (with random checks) and also make the NCT recordings available.
However, in this, the IT hub or Europe (or whatever bulls**t terminology the government use for this country), we haven't a hope of getting this done!

I wonder how is it done in the Uk?

PauloMN

Anan1 wrote:

This is actually worse than useless, as it implies that, if they don't have a contradictory reading, no further investigation is required.

That's no different to the HPI check though. I ran a HPI check on a UK car last week (the one I discovered was clocked), and it wouldn't give me a mileage recording until I entered the current mileage according to the odometer.

Then it showed me two recordings - one at 91k miles, and one at 95k miles, after I put the current reading of 60k miles in :rolleyes: . Not sure if they were the only recordings available for the car, or if it just shows the last two recordings.

As to how the data collected in the UK - the two mileage entries on the HPI check report I have are listed as franchised dealer recordings, so I'm not sure if MOT mileage readings are held in their database.

Henry Ford III

PauloMN wrote:

That's no different to the HPI check though. I ran a HPI check on a UK car last week (the one I discovered was clocked), and it wouldn't give me a mileage recording until I entered the current mileage according to the odometer.

Then it showed me two recordings - one at 91k miles, and one at 95k miles, after I put the current reading of 60k miles in :rolleyes: . Not sure if they were the only recordings available for the car, or if it just shows the last two recordings.

As to how the data collected in the UK - the two mileage entries on the HPI check report I have are listed as franchised dealer recordings, so I'm not sure if MOT mileage readings are held in their database.

As I understand it there's a massive difference. HPI will give you a warranty of up to STG£10,000 if their info is incorrect.