A (somewhat) free lemoncheck site

[breakaway]

http://www.carfax.co.nz/

Lets you check out k's, make & model etc. Can purchase the 'full report' with security interests (money owing?) and details of current owner for $10. Very reasonable.

Can find out about the Odometer etc for free - the best bit. I immediately ran all our vehicles through it, and saw mum's car has been wound back :mellow:

[Subike]

very interesting site
show my ride as being a damaged import the year it was made:wacko:

[Romeo]

Great find, thanks for the link!

+rep

[nodrog]

sweet, found out my 996 had 89000 ks wound off it, lucky i sold it :)

[Headbanger]

Very cool.

[headlesschicken]

not working for me??

[Aero165]

Isn't working for me either?:blank:

[Subike]

lol
must be an 8 till 5 web site
was working ok this afternoon for me
now it will not load up
bloody office hours lol

[breakaway]

Strange. It's working for me guys :Pokey:

[Zoolander]

Cool site, interesting, my old NC30 apparently had half its mileage wound off the odometer back in 98. I never even suspected! Goes to show you should really check out any vehicle you buy properly.

Good thing my current bike checks out ok, mind you I did have a check done when I bought it.

[hang0ver]

Cheers for the link...

Lost 600K on my Hilux somewhere about a year back..?

_-H-_

[Motu]

My latest (NZ new) vehicle shows 148,000km on it's first WoF check,then a 129,000km drop in kms on the next check.I'm taking that as an incorrect first entry,as it had dealer servicing for over 200,000kms.

[megageoff76]

Cheers for the link not bad, and yay my mileage checks out.

According to the stats ive done an average of 16kms/day - pretty sad really. I must get out for more rides.

[Lias]

VERY useful site.

Checked up all my old bikes, all still on the road even my written off GN250. I pity the sucker who ended up with that!

Any idea how you get odo readings corrected in the database? My cage dropped 70km's between sitting its wof and passing its wof a week or so later. .. obviously a typo.

[breakaway]

Any idea how you get odo readings corrected in the database? My cage dropped 70km's between sitting its wof and passing its wof a week or so later. .. obviously a typo.

By filling out the

"The data looks inaccurate? Please help us to improve by submitting the details"

box on the bottom of your vehicle report :p

[TOTO]

wasnt working before. working fine now

[Romeo]

Any idea how you get odo readings corrected in the database? My cage dropped 70km's between sitting its wof and passing its wof a week or so later. .. obviously a typo.


Thank you Joliet, There are a lot of cases like yours (Recorded Milage jumping up 200,000km+ in the space of 6 months). At the moment carfax cannot change the values -- as we simply sources it from the government databases where information had been put by authorized people. Those authorised people do make mistakes. What may come live at our website is user generated content where users will be able to comment on certain aspects of the vehicles :)

In other words, sorry -- we cannot do anything at the moment. Maybe you need to call LTSA up?

Kind Regards, Anton
www.carfax.co.nz<!--10CharsToTheMoFuckinROOF-->

[HungusMaximist]

Because the government use lab chimps doing the data entry I wouldn't trust it's accuracy 100%.

I would say, just use it as a guide.

[popelli]

great site

looked up some of my bikes all imported damaged including the one and only new bike I have ever bought ??? its now up to 208,000kms, maybe I should have kept it

[Headbanger]

great site

looked up some of my bikes all imported damaged including the one and only new bike I have ever bought ??? its now up to 208,000kms, maybe I should have kept it

You don't get the information on whether its been damaged or not unless you pay for the full report...Did you pay for the full report for all your bikes you have owned?

[Dodger]

nice site :)
(bling bling)

[popelli]

You don't get the information on whether its been damaged or not unless you pay for the full report...Did you pay for the full report for all your bikes you have owned?


had over 20 or 30 bikes, lost count a long time ago

do you think I am rich or something???

[Timati]

Is it just me but I think it's just collecting info on who owns what...Dodgy

[Matt_TG]

It's info that's already out there and prettily easily available (we use MotoChek at work), but the bonus here it's free and the mileage info is easy to see at a glance.

Many thanks for the link! My old CX500 looks to have been wound back 97000kms.... It sorta makes sense given what I had to work on it - although the change of ownership papers didn't reflect the indiscrepancy.

[Disco Dan]

Check this out:

http://www.carfax.co.nz/car/?plate=dar519&search=CarFax+Search

My old mini.. look at the odometer section!!

You can see each time the odo broke and was replaced :whistle:

[musicman]

Check this out:

http://www.carfax.co.nz/car/?plate=dar519&search=CarFax+Search

My old mini.. look at the odometer section!!

You can see each time the odo broke and was replaced :whistle:

Hmm... it says that the WOF expired more than 2 years ago in March 2006, but it's still registered?? Last registration date May 2007?? How do you get a vehicle registered without a WOF?? :confused:

[Joliet]

Yeah it would be an awesome site if it didn't say my odometer jumped up 200,000km in a year!

Reading - Date - Source or reason - Average usage, /day
248,003 - 2003, January 21st - WOF inspection - 610.35
23,393 - 2002, January 18th - WOF inspection - 4.24

Someone please explain to me how someone could input that into a computer without thinking something was wrong with the reading :spanking:

(For the record, it's currently sitting at about 27,654)

As Romeo quoted earlier though, they can't do diddly squat about it. :weep:

[mark247]

great site

looked up some of my bikes all imported damaged including the one and only new bike I have ever bought ??? its now up to 208,000kms, maybe I should have kept it

When it says "Imported Built-Up" it does not mean it was imported damaged, it means it was imported already build up with with k's on it. Basically anything not NZ new...

[musicman]

When it says "Imported Built-Up" it does not mean it was imported damaged, it means it was imported already build up with with k's on it. Basically anything not NZ new...

I got my first bike, a Suzuki GX125, brand new from Holeshot in 2003 and it still says "Imported Built-up".

[mark247]

I got my first bike, a Suzuki GX125, brand new from Holeshot in 2003 and it still says "Imported Built-up".

Strange.

My bike which is a Japanese import says Imported Built-Up, but i really dont know if it was damaged or not, im guessing it wasnt. My mates bike says Imported Built-Up as well and that was imported and defently not damaged. My old BMW was NZ new and it doesn't say anything under "Assembly Type."

Hmmm.......

[xwhatsit]

Strange.

My bike which is a Japanese import says Imported Built-Up, but i really dont know if it was damaged or not, im guessing it wasnt. My mates bike says Imported Built-Up as well and that was imported and defently not damaged. My old BMW was NZ new and it doesn't say anything under "Assembly Type."

Hmmm.......
No, it'll be like that NZ new or not. If you're selling a Honda brand-new, it's not produced here, is it -- it's made in Japan (well at least my one was), so it'll be listed as `Imported Built-Up'.

[mark247]

No, it'll be like that NZ new or not. If you're selling a Honda brand-new, it's not produced here, is it -- it's made in Japan (well at least my one was), so it'll be listed as `Imported Built-Up'.

My BMW was built in Germany and sold here NZ new, but it doesnt say Imported Built Up. Then again, one of my parents cars is the same but it does say imported built up. i dont think its that accurate...

[klyong82]

Imported built up just means it was assembled overseas and was imported into NZ as a finish product (which is in most cases be it NEW or USED). My 1997 Honda Civic says it was assembled in NZ which is right. The rest were imported built up

Only way to tell if it is a used import is the part that says if it was registered overseas and caused of registration part if it says USED means it was an used import of it says NEW then it was imported NZ New.

Gosh my Honda Accord in the miscellaneous information part has a note saying "unreliable odometer". Been driving that car for 6 years and it has been the most reliable car I had. Gosh I love Honda's...they last forever :devil2:

[avgas]

Read and weep 2008 ZX10 owner haha

[mowgli]

I must be doing sumfing wrong :(

I want to buy the report but when I click the link all I get is dumped back to the start with a message "Payment system is beging integrated. Please stay tuned."

Has anyone else purchased a report?

[avgas]

CRIKEY! and it doesnt even have one of them gay power mode switches like the GSXR's!
At first i thought it was a hickup - and that all bikes must be set to 999 as default. Tried bosses Hyo - 20kw!
So my new theory is they know my bike is off the road = -1 kW = 999

[popelli]

When it says "Imported Built-Up" it does not mean it was imported damaged, it means it was imported already build up with with k's on it. Basically anything not NZ new...


it did say imported damaged - and it was brand new with zero miles on the clock - maybe look at what was actually posted

[mark247]

it did say imported damaged - and it was brand new with zero miles on the clock - maybe look at what was actually posted

Sorry i assumed that when you said imported damaged you were refering to imported build up because i assumed it ment damage in the beginning. my bad.

[rwh]

At first i thought it was a hickup - and that all bikes must be set to 999 as default. Tried bosses Hyo - 20kw!
So my new theory is they know my bike is off the road = -1 kW = 999

Well, they know it hasn't had a wof for 3 months, and that the rego is also a couple of months overdue ... but my old 250 (reg on hold) doesn't show a power figure at all.

Richard

[avgas]

but my old 250 (reg on hold) doesn't show a power figure at all.
Feels gutless and run on hopes and dreams i suppose. lol

[rwh]

Feels gutless and run on hopes and dreams i suppose. lol

No, actually the power figure is pretty accurate - it doesn't run.

BTW, by mentioning info you didn't show in your screenshot, I was trying to hint that you hadn't edited out all references to your plate number :)

Richard

[avgas]

No, actually the power figure is pretty accurate - it doesn't run.
BTW, by mentioning info you didn't show in your screenshot, I was trying to hint that you hadn't edited out all references to your plate number :)
Richard
Bah thats ok - as you can tell the bike is currently either not running (i.e. not worth stealing) or not running a plate ;)

[hazard02]

Fark me! Turns out my VFRs been wound back 581000kms!

Says something about that legendary Honda reliability aye?

[rwh]

Fark me! Turns out my VFRs been wound back 581000kms!

Says something about that legendary Honda reliability aye?

gijoe1313 must have had it for a spell - averaging 2800k/day for nearly 7 months is impressive pootling :)

Richard

[breakaway]

sweet, found out my 996 had 89000 ks wound off it, lucky i sold it :)

Did it use to go well?

[nodrog]

Did it use to go well?

it was mint mate :cool:

[xwhatsit]

It's not that carfax site wot is giving you inaccurate odo details -- it's the dicky WoF testers who don't punch the details into the computer correctly. Fer'instance, here's my bike -- notice the most recent number, 68,052kms. I'd put a new speedo on a month or two before, which was brand new and zeroed out. At the time of the WoF check it showed 8,052kms. The WoF tester said `oh, that's a new speedo -- that'll show up on the WoF check and it'll look like you've clocked it past 100,000kms, people won't want to buy it'. I told him I couldn't really give a shit, I won't be selling it if I can help it, but... well the numbers he typed in are not what was on the speedo.

Perhaps he thought he was doing me a favour? Local garage.

[Wiki Drifter]

check out the total awesomeness of my first car, a '86 Honda City:beer:

[headlesschicken]

85000 kays a day. Now thats impressive :clap:

[Eddieb]

Mine shows the R80G/S appears to have gone round the clock twice, which is once more than expected and not a concern as it runs like a swiss watch and should be good for double whats it's done so far at least. The 3rd decrease is due to the odo being replaced as the glass was smashed.

It gets more confusing as the new odo is in miles, but the original readings I don't know about. I think they are km's as it was imported privately from Germany.

3,898 2008, January 19th WOF inspection 17.11
357 2007, June 26th WOF inspection 0.51
253 2006, December 6th WOF inspection 0.01
251 2006, July 14th WOF inspection 0.07
236 2005, December 13th WOF inspection 0.48
162 2005, July 11th WOF inspection 0.66
17 2004, December 3rd WOF inspection odometer decrease -37,034.00
37,051 2004, June 9th WOF inspection odometer decrease -49,740.00
86,791 2003, December 2nd WOF inspection 2.09
86,410 2003, June 3rd WOF inspection 5.36
84,984 2002, September 10th WOF inspection 363.44
17,732 2002, March 9th WOF inspection 37.73
11,055 2001, September 13th WOF inspection odometer decrease -72,473.00
83,528 2001, March 1st WOF inspection 2.33
80,408 1997, June 30th WOF inspection 14.06
75,559 1996, July 20th WOF inspection 5.39
73,695 1995, August 9th WOF inspection 11.47
69,175 1994, July 11th as at change of owner 25.51


I suspect some of the other bikes reported on here as wound back in fact also went round the clock. As most bike odo's are only 5 digits that wouldn't show and would appear at face value as if they had been wound back.

[nodrog]

this carfax site is shit, it shows my bike has had a mystery WOF 8 days after it already got one, and in that time it had travelled 86546km. they have a "is this info correct" contact thing, so i emailed them and told them, but all they say is that sombody has entered the data wrong and they cant change it, so whats the fuckin point of giving people the option to report incorrect information?

i would hate to pay for the reports only to find they are full of bullshit as well!!!

[Forest]

This is why government managed databases are such a bad idea.

Garbage in, garbage out.

[fergie]

found this by chance and may be of use to those buying privately http://www.carfax.co.nz/ just type in your reg and read,very interesting.

[homer]

think youll find you get charged to use it

[nodrog]

i think you will find it is shit too, every vehicle i own has incorrect information, apparently i have done over 50000km in 3 days on my speed triple!

[Ragingrob]

No you don't have to pay, and no it's not shit. All vehicules I've checked out are true. Only thing I have noticed is maybe a typo here and there on some bikes I checked out, nodrog have a look and see if it was just a typo, i.e. one digit out or something.

But yeah, great site.

[wickle]

I check a couple of my plates numbers and it seems okay, you only have to pay if you purchase a full report.

[nodrog]

... nodrog have a look and see if it was just a typo, i.e. one digit out or something...


no its not a typo, they have my bike listed as getting another WOF 3 days after i already got one for it. the information they have put in there is incorrect, and when you use the "is this information correct" email feature, all you get back is "oh obviously it is incorrect, but we cannot change it".

so whats the fuckin point of asking if its correct or not?

[Boob Johnson]

no its not a typo, they have my bike listed as getting another WOF 3 days after i already got one for it. the information they have put in there is incorrect, and when you use the "is this information correct" email feature, all you get back is "oh obviously it is incorrect, but we cannot change it".

so whats the fuckin point of asking if its correct or not?
It's a general guide not meant to be the "master database". It works fine for all vehicles ive plugged in. Personally I pay the $30 for the full monty @ www.vir.co.nz

[Squiggles]

Good for an initial check of k's

[RC1]

have checked a couple of bikes that i had wrote off and there up and running still inc VFR400 and a GSXR400, , good site

[ManDownUnder]

Good site by the look of it - but to take the piss for a second - if I may...

One one hand they ask the rhetorical question - is the odometer reliable? and a few lines into the odo readings they proceed to answer it - seemingly in the negative...!

Mind you - April till October '07 I WAS a bit of a legend on the RF clocking up 4,285 KMs/day...! That's 178.5kph on average foer the whole 6 month period!

Anyone got questions about the RF's reliability now??? huh? HUH???

LOL!

Odometer history

<TABLE style="TABLE-LAYOUT: fixed"><TBODY><TR><TD class=labelcell vAlign=top align=left>Is odometer reliable?:</TD><TD>Find out by purchasing the report (http://www.carfax.co.nz/car/?plate=32tcu#buy_report)</TD></TR><TR><TD class=labelcell vAlign=top align=left>Latest odometer reading:</TD><TD>96,395 Kms (on 2008, April 5th, source: WOF Inspection)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=bare cellPadding=5><TBODY><TR><TH align=left><SMALL>Reading, Kms</SMALL></TH><TH align=left><SMALL>Date</SMALL></TH><TH align=left><SMALL>Source or reason</SMALL></TH><TH align=left><SMALL>Average usage, Kms/day</SMALL></TH></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #eee"><TD>96,395</TD><TD>2008, April 5th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>50.25</TD></TR><TR><TD>87,249</TD><TD>2007, October 6th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>odometer decrease -785,125.00</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #eee"><TD>872,374</TD><TD>2007, October 5th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>4,285.66</TD></TR><TR><TD>79,526</TD><TD>2007, April 3rd</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>49.99</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #eee"><TD>70,278</TD><TD>2006, September 30th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>36.50</TD></TR><TR><TD>63,489</TD><TD>2006, March 28th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>45.36</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #eee"><TD>55,234</TD><TD>2005, September 27th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>37.38</TD></TR><TR><TD>48,056</TD><TD>2005, March 19th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>34.55</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #eee"><TD>41,769</TD><TD>2004, September 18th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>19.29</TD></TR><TR><TD>38,257</TD><TD>2004, March 20th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>14.00</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #eee"><TD>38,159</TD><TD>2004, March 13th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>16.48</TD></TR><TR><TD>35,259</TD><TD>2003, September 19th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>15.83</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #eee"><TD>32,314</TD><TD>2003, March 17th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>9.30</TD></TR><TR><TD>30,602</TD><TD>2002, September 14th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>9.39</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #eee"><TD>28,499</TD><TD>2002, February 2nd</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>4.65</TD></TR><TR><TD>28,341</TD><TD>2001, December 30th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>27.18</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #eee"><TD>18,123</TD><TD>2000, December 19th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>2.02</TD></TR><TR><TD>17,365</TD><TD>1999, December 9th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>5.45</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #eee"><TD>13,057</TD><TD>1997, October 10th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>7.13</TD></TR><TR><TD>11,260</TD><TD>1997, January 31st</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD><TD>23.69</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #eee"><TD>7,518</TD><TD>1996, August 26th</TD><TD>WOF inspection</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

[rudolph]

Shit thats cool,

[xwhatsit]

This has been up on KB twice now.

The dodgy figures in the report aren't from Carfax -- they come directly from the main LTSA/LTNZ/LTWTF database. So when you go from 70,000kms to 770,000kms then back to 80,000kms, this is a result of your WoF tester (or whoever typed it into the computer) misreading your speedo and adding an extra zero on the end.

That's also the reason why Carfax can't change the data; it's not their database to modify.

It's only beta right now; I think it future versions they plan to have a local correction matrix -- so when you tell them this information is incorrect, they'll show the original (official!) LTSA data (showing 770,000kms), but then right next to it they'll show `this figure has been marked as incorrect by one of our users, and should instead be 77,000kms'.

[Kinje]

have checked a couple of bikes that i had wrote off and there up and running still inc VFR400 and a GSXR400, , good site

Seems pretty good. Details for the bikes I have are right. The one I wrote off is still there, but comes up as a previous plate with the details given for it's new numberplate, and shows that it has been re-registered.

[rudolph]

for one of my bikes its all wrong