Vehicle History reports: differences

gaiscioch · 11-07-2014 12:42PM #1

I notice there are significant price differences between Mywheels.ie (which I never heard of until checking donedeal) and both cartell and motorcheck.ie.

Full check costs:

Mywheels.ie = €22 http://mywheels.ie/pricing/

Motorcheck.ie = €35 (https://www.motorcheck.ie/free-car-check/10d17262/)

Cartell.ie = €35 (https://www.cartell.ie/ssl/servlet/beginStarLookup?registration=10d30887)

Is there any particular reason why people would pay more for the last two? Are there any other vehicle history check companies in the market which differentiate themselves via price or the number of things they check?

dmullins3 · 11-07-2014 04:19PM

I was about to post the exact same question on here when I found your post.

There are several other websites all offering vehicle history reports at different prices.

Price doesn't really concern me as I would assume that the the more I pay, the more detailed the history report will be.

However, I would like to know if any of the Vehicle History Check websites are better/worse than others and what people's personal experiences have been with any of them? I don't want to fork out for an incomplete history check, buy a car, and then find that the area that the history check ignored is now an issue that I am having with a car I've just bought

Noccy_Mondy · 11-07-2014 11:17PM

I find Motorcheck to be the best out of the three - here's a sample report, if you were to get one done, it would have the same layout as the one below.

http://www.motorcheck.ie/sample-full-check/

Toyotafanboi · 11-07-2014 11:55PM

i always use motorcheck. the reports are definitely the easiest to read. i once used a cartell check and did realise it omitted something that motorcheck doesn't but i can't right now remember what it is.

motorcheck also posts here sometimes in a helpful manner. for that alone it's nice to support their business imo.

hof1982 · 13-07-2014 12:07AM

I have recently used motorcheck and have no complaints although I have no experience of the others. In order to get a full report you will need a fair bit of data on the car in terms of VIN etc and more if it has been imported. It eased my mind in terms of making a decision recently and I also got them to do a full vehicle inspection - even told me about some minor scuffs on one of the rear passenger door internal kick panel, fairly thorough.

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