Whether the car was involved in accidents, was it stolen - many car owners want to know the history of their car. They need this so that unpleasant surprises do not appear during operation. If you wish, it is not so difficult to find out all the necessary information.
Instructions
Step 1
One of the main ways to get information on a car is to use its VIN number. In general, VIN is a universal vehicle identification number consisting of 17 characters. By reading it correctly, you can get complete information about the country of manufacture, vehicle characteristics and year of manufacture. You can also find out some additional parameters that are determined by the VIN number, but the manufacturer is not included in it. To do this, you can make a request to the road patrol service. If the car was involved in any traffic accidents, you will definitely be told about it.
Step 2
In the same way, the car is checked for theft and for repainting. You can get similar information from the insurance company if you know where it was served. There you will also be given a full report on everything that happened to the car before you became its owner.
Step 3
A novelty of modern technologies is a special terminal, which has already appeared in some cities of Russia. The information base contained in it was compiled on the basis of the databases of the traffic police departments, collected over the past 5-6 years. You just need to enter the main characteristics of your car into the terminal, and the result will not be long in coming.
Step 4
Indirect methods include independent expertise. If the person who undertook to inspect your car is a real professional, then he will quickly tell you whether your car has undergone a thorough repair and repainting. And if such a fact took place, then this may mean that she was involved in an accident and suffered. An experienced expert will even tell you which parts were to be replaced.
Step 5
Are you worried that the car was stolen? Or was it drowned? Take a look under the hood. If there is a special point marked with a core, it means that an insured event has occurred. Either the first position or the second. Usually this mark is a reason to think carefully about whether to buy such a car.
