Anyone use motorcheck.ie?

MARTINGTI

MARTINGTI

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Jesus had I a close one today!

Was going to see a car in Offaly tomoro and decided to take the plunge and do a motorcheck.ie check on it. I just had a feeling about it. No service history was the big alarm bell. Well was I shocked! The car itself is a 2001 T Sport Celica, pics attached.... All looks very respectable right.... (not a Scooby I know, please forgive me) lol

This is the milage story....

20/12/2011 128,748 Kms (80,000 Mls) INMR
13/12/2011 124,476 Kms (77,346 Mls) INMR
15/05/2010 111,882 Kms (69,520 Mls) INMR
05/04/2008 77,249 Kms (48,000 Mls) DVLA
03/10/2005 91,733 Kms (57,000 Mls) DVLA

As u can see it dropped 9k miles from 2005 to 2008! And again in 2011 it had 80k miles on it. The guy I was buying from done 4k miles this year which brings it to 84k and there is only 83k on the clock! And that's not including the two years in between....! So its been clocked twice.

That's not the biggest worry, this is...


Irish Write Off (Cat. A/B) No

UK Write Off (Cat. A/B/C/D) Yes

Write-Off Description 12/09/2008, Category C UK


We have a record of this vehicle being previously written-off. It was a Category C write-off, which means that the vehicle has been extensively damaged and the insurer has decided not to repair. The vehicle may be repaired and returned to the road.



Man was I shocked and glad I spent the €35!

I had heard hit and miss reports about motorcheck.ie and thats why I never used it before but I will never buy a car again without doing one for it!!!
 

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Lovely car that right colour and spec t sport my old man has the corolla t sport same colour bloody scary read though well done for doing your homework I used car tell myself right job
 
Before anybody spends a couple off thousand on a car they should do a motorcheck
and then after that have a garage inspect or ideally one off those aa exstensive inspections
there not cheap but they always turn up something that will discount the car even further
way to risky to be shooting in the dark when so much off someone's hard earned cash involved
If you are buying off a dealer they should be able to provide you with a cartell printtout
it wont cost them anything to do this as they will have a subscription so get them to print it out for you (but while your watching so its not edited)
that's what I do
 
[quote author=Ciaran WRX link=topic=40302.msg459084#msg459084 date=1389199330]
Lovely car that right colour and spec t sport my old man has the corolla t sport same colour bloody scary read though well done for doing your homework I used car tell myself right job
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Ya there a cracking car, but proving very hard to find one in that colour that's in good condition!
 
Got the report on my sti and her hyundai coupe off C&R when buying , great piece of mind when buying secondhand car , never asked for the reports but Mick just had them all ready printed off
 
Would never buy a car without a Cartell full report.
I've tried motorcheck too, but found the Cartell report much better myself...

... BUT... like Colm said... get the car properly checked out by someone who knows what they are doing!
The reports are not fool proof... mileage irregularities may show up, but not always! (not enough mandatory entries to read and enter clock readings)
Also, car might still have been crash damaged and not claimed against insurance (and hence wouldn't show on report).

Typically good for finance though and also good place to start your checks if you are seriously considering a vehicle.
 
[quote author=Keadeen link=topic=40302.msg459659#msg459659 date=1389535541]


... BUT... like Colm said... get the car properly checked out by someone who knows what they are doing!

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A poor guy on his way home with his new scooby on the N11 yesterday learned this lesson the hard way , even though he brought along a mechanic to check the car over before buying , the car caught fire near Arklow on the motorway , just shows even if you do everything right you may still have issues , desperate unlucky but sh*t happens sometimes i guess
 
Up with us now.

Looks like oil return pipe perished and leaked and heatwrap caught fire. Zero damage by looks.

No wiring burnt or anything.

Know more tomorrow
 
I was checking motorcheck.ie once too, and I was disappointed, it was showing that the car was clocked and I almost stepped back because of that, as the seller was 'lying'. but I still went and had a look at the car anyways, and I liked the car, and the car looked exactly to the number it had on clock... and the seller was the only owner and he could swear the car was not clocked, even when I asked multiple times, then I started investigating, why did that report said it was clocked.

After a while I noticed, that the thing that was not matching was because it was always written in Km's and then once in miles into km's, which resulted into huge jump from 100k km to 72k miles. And on another line it came back again as km...

Also, the 'office' is taking data from all different sources of data, the car I bought was advertised as 134k but the car had 133k at the point of selling, but the seller just expected to do 1k more on it as it was being sold, and for that reason he wrote 1k more on the ad, weirdly, on the motorcheck, there is day when this ad appeared first time on the website marked as to be sold, and the km's were there already at 134k...

So they do huge scanning over all selling sites, and then take basicaly 'random' data as valid and put that in there. These things are not to be trusted 100% imo, but can give a good idea tho.
 
Cartel and prob the rest if theses checks suffer from the same problem round the time if mileage change over from km to miles the info is only as good as the monkey inputting it however to many red flags on that Celica above for it to be a typo
 
Re: Re: Anyone use motorcheck.ie?

[quote author=keith dublin link=topic=40302.msg1#msg1 date=1389572326]
Lucky lad
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Well owners description was way off.

Not so lucky.

Drove flat out with 95 petrol in tank for 4 months on a E5+ booster map.

Destroyed a piston. Rod put hole in block and was oil out through hole that caught fire. What an absolute preventable waste.


Will post pics on a different thread.
 
ya its a 2003 front on her. not sure where she was hit. report the ad to donedeal is it?? what will they do?
 
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