Get a free vehicle history report

by tyler in autos, vin | 1 min

Before you buy a car you will likely want to get a vehicle history report. Carfax seems to be the name that comes to mind when the search for a vehicle history report begins, but unfortunately they charge quite a bit of money for a single report. I’ve dis

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1Get the VIN number for the car

The VIN number can often be found on the side of the drivers side door.

2Search for ‘dealer autocheck inurl:vin’ in Google

Currently the first result is from dealersuite.com. Although this search will look for any site that does an autocheck and has ‘vin’ in the url. In this case, you will be able to replace your vin number with the vin number in the URL in hit ‘Enter’.

3Replace the vin number in the url with your vin number

The vin will likely be in the second part of the url after the ? and it may look something like this vin=xxxxxxxxxxx. After replacing the vin and hitting ‘Enter’ it should run the report for you vehicle!


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