Specialist · performance · classic

Find the bill before you drive it home.

The folder: A thick service history proves less than it looks.
The faults: We research what your model is known for at its age and mileage, with the sources shown.
The price: We check the folder for signs they've been dealt with, and put a published cost range on what it can't show.

Free to start

The summary needs only the plate. The £29 report is sharpest with the invoices.

The seller’s own paperwork

Read invoice by invoice. Not a database lookup.

Traceable

Every finding points to an invoice or the official record. Anything that can’t is deleted.

Worked example · 2011 Ferrari California

£6,400–£16,200

of known work with nothing to prove it was ever done.

On a car listed at £68,000, that is 9 to 24 percent of the asking price, itemised against the invoices from published UK cost bands. A list of jobs with the pounds attached - not a score, not an opinion.

Read the full report

Known failureUnproven cost

Exhaust manifolds and pre-cats£1,700–6,000

Carbon-ceramic discs, if fittedUnclear · not counted

Cam variators£3,000–7,000

Dual-clutch wearCovered · not counted

Rear main seal£1,700–3,200

What the folder is checked against

Its own old adverts

The price and mileage each one claimed. A previous listing is the one thing a seller can't go back and change.

What it's worth

Valued at its real mileage, plus the gap between an average example and a clean one.

Outstanding recalls

DVSA and SMMT. Recall work is free at a franchised dealer, so an unfixed one is a question, not a bill.

Questions to ask

Each tied to a specific fact in this car's record, so the seller can't answer by pointing at the car.

Three moves, on the day it matters

You've driven two hours to see it. The seller has a good story. You have an hour.

Type the plate before you set off

Its whole MOT history, the mileage drawn as a line, and any year the story goes quiet - more than any advert will tell you.

Photograph or upload the seller's invoices

Creased, handwritten, thermal, whatever they are. An invoice claiming 40,000 miles on a car that had done 62,000 is caught on the spot.

Negotiate with a number, not a feeling

What's missing and what it's worth in pounds, line by line.

Start with the plate

Seconds from registration to summary, on the car's own page. The report follows when you want it, with or without the folder.

Buyer's guides

All guides

The faults each of these cars is known for, what they cost to put right, and what the paperwork should show, all from published sources.