Check the VIN before you buy

The car looks honest. The seller is in a hurry. You have a number on a bit of paper and a weekend to decide.

Do the check before you buy. VIN Checkup is a used-car history check. You enter the VIN on their site. Their pitch currently leads with a free VIN search. If you buy a report after that, you pay VIN Checkup. We do not set the price. We may earn a commission if you buy through this link. You pay the seller.

What you actually get

A history check is a report, not a mechanic. It will not catch every lemon. It will not promise you save money. It will not replace walking around the car, starting it, and asking who owned it. It is one more look at the number stamped on the vehicle before cash leaves your pocket.

Some records are thin. Some cars are honest. Some are not. You still decide.

How this shop sends you there

View Buy It lists VIN Checkup as an external product on the shop. The listing is VIN Checkup — used-car history check. The shop button says Check a VIN. That button, and the yellow one on this page, go to our cloaked hop at /go/vin-checkup/. You leave this yellow shop. Their page is theirs.

• Copy the VIN from the windscreen, the compliance plate, or the seller’s ad.
• Tap Check a VIN.
• Enter the VIN on VIN Checkup’s site.
• Read what they show. If you buy anything, you pay them.

Open the shop listing if you want the same button next to the hosting tiles. The what View Buy It actually is page is the one-screen version of this shop if someone asks why a yellow tile is sending them off-site.

What we will not print

No from-price. Their live pitch currently leads with a free VIN search. A number we do not list is a number we will not invent. If their checkout later shows a fee, that fee is theirs.

We will not dress this up as a household-name report you already know. We will not say it finds every write-off, every flood, every rolled-back odometer. The terms say we may earn a commission. That sentence belongs next to the button, not in a footer you never read.

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The next tap

Open the shop if you want the yellow tiles. Or tap Check a VIN, paste the number, and see what their page says. View it. Then buy it — or walk.