Carjam is the new black (Carfax is so 20th century)

[carjam]

Some of you probably already noticed but carfax.co.nz, a free service for bike (and car if you must) details has rebranded to Carjam (maybe we should grab Bikejam domain name ...?)

Hope this is not too intrusive but we can tell from our site stats that Carjam gets a lot of visitors from Kiwibiker - thanks heaps guys !!!!!!

p.s. Feel free to give us a hard time about the new name - everyone else is ;)

[MSTRS]

So what is better than before? A rose by any other name...etc

[scorry]

p.s. Feel free to give us a hard time about the new name - everyone else is ;)

ok then, how bout toejam for people getting second hand toes lol (i have no idea if this actually happens by the way)

[nodrog]

will it still have the same amount of inaccurate information as carfax?

[carjam]

Yeah this is one we are constantly responding to - all the information we provide is fetched in real time from the NZTA (was LTSA). Our FAQs describe how to go about getting this corrected with them. It is 99% caused by operator data entry error during WOF and causes many many headaches. We don't have write access to LTSA database unfortunately and writing to them on our cutomers behalf only results in the process described in the FAQs - sorry and we will continue to try and work on this to improve things

[carjam]

Does the government maintain a database of info about peoples toes? Maybe when you go to the docs for a "warrant" ...?

[carjam]

So what is better than before? A rose by any other name...etc

In truth you are right not that much has changed visibly, same great services - behind the scenes many things have changed in preparation for features in our roadmap which will be revealed when we get there, these features include more community oriented things which we hope will bind the vehicle buying and selling community into a safer, easier place - communities => sticking together => stickiness => jam (?) - these features may not appear tomorrow but we'll get there - so much to do and only 24 hours in the day ...

[mnkyboy]

communities => sticking together => stickiness => jam (?) - ...

Fits nicely with toejam.co.nz ;)

I use carjam all the time - very helpful in my line of work just getting simple information that usually would've cost $2 via motocheck

Very handy seeing how many km's people are doing too.

[Trouser]

Very helpfull site. Thanks for the service. It has saved me from buying a lemon. Cheers

[Motu]

It is 99% caused by operator data entry error during WOF and causes many many headaches.

True (I am one of those guilty of incorrect entry) but also by operator data entry at the old Post Office - there is a hell of a lot of incorrect data of motor vehicles at the initial change over when minions who know nothing about motor vehicles entered the data in the first place....complete with spelling mistakes.

Two of my vehicles (both German,but that has nothing to do with it) show a 100,000km reduction in odo reading at the second entry....obviously first recorded with the 10th km digit.One is a 1987 vehicle - did they even have computers in 1987?

So a lot of this data comes from paper entries transcribed to computer.

[klingon]

communities => sticking together => stickiness => jam => traffic jam=> get a bike and avoid all the jams.

Personally I prefer carmarmalade.

[ynot slow]

Can we have a figjam site,nah would mostly be politicians on it.

[mnkyboy]

Can we have a figjam site,nah would mostly be politicians on it.

Them and the mormon few

[bungbung]

A cool feature would be a real time link to vehicles reported stolen. See a car on the side of the road, for sale or just sifting. clickety = stolen

[Irontusk]

our roadmap which will be revealed

I hope you don't mean you're going to start showing exactly where our vehicles live on a map, just to add to the service of giving thieves the address of vehicles..

Stolen car (bike) ordering catalogue.

[CookMySock]

Yep, a great tool. I backed out of a purchase because I discovered the speedo had been around the clock three times and it had had three different rego plates on it, and the plates in the photo belonged to a different bike.

Uh, the jam is lame though. Don't like. Sorry.

Steve

[carjam]

communities => sticking together => stickiness => jam => traffic jam=> get a bike and avoid all the jams.

Personally I prefer carmarmalade.

hahahaha ! bikejam? bikesouffle - OK its friday night - sorry Carjam!

[carjam]

Yep, a great tool. I backed out of a purchase because I discovered the speedo had been around the clock three times and it had had three different rego plates on it, and the plates in the photo belonged to a different bike.

Uh, the jam is lame though. Don't like. Sorry.

Steve

Well we were kind of snow blind from so many variants - what do you like?

[carjam]

Very helpfull site. Thanks for the service. It has saved me from buying a lemon. Cheers

Cheers - we aim to please :)

[breakaway]

Why change from Carfax to Carjam?

[carjam]

Why change from Carfax to Carjam?

We were getting an element of confusion with a US only based website of the same name. We also wanted something a bit more interesting and something which would match our broader long term plans for lots of different features and the ability for users to "jam" about cars.

[xwhatsit]

I hope you don't mean you're going to start showing exactly where our vehicles live on a map, just to add to the service of giving thieves the address of vehicles..

Stolen car (bike) ordering catalogue.
`Roadmap' used in the sense of software or website or hardware or other geek development sort of stuff is sort of a future plan for features in upcoming releases. For example, Intel has a roadmap detailing all the fancy new Pentiums they're going to release over the next couple of years, and what stage of development they're in.

So no, he's not talking about an actual map of where the cars are.

By the way, you can get that information for about a dollar at a post office anyway. So we're not talking a particularly high bar of entry as it is.

[Irontusk]

By the way, you can get that information for about a dollar at a post office anyway. So we're not talking a particularly high bar of entry as it is.

I know, that's why I hate these sort of services. What legitimate purpose does that serve? Atleast the 'roadmap' is just a label for the development plan.

[carjam]

Aaah - good point and one we will add to the FAQ which explains it (accessible from the homepage at http://carjam.co.nz )


True (I am one of those guilty of incorrect entry) but also by operator data entry at the old Post Office - there is a hell of a lot of incorrect data of motor vehicles at the initial change over when minions who know nothing about motor vehicles entered the data in the first place....complete with spelling mistakes.

Two of my vehicles (both German,but that has nothing to do with it) show a 100,000km reduction in odo reading at the second entry....obviously first recorded with the 10th km digit.One is a 1987 vehicle - did they even have computers in 1987?

So a lot of this data comes from paper entries transcribed to computer.

[Cajun]

Aaah - good point and one we will add to the FAQ which explains it (accessible from the homepage at http://carjam.co.nz )

Carjam do you want your name changed to carfax?