A (somewhat) free lemoncheck site

[nodrog:Me]

Did it use to go well?

it was mint mate

[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

[headlesschicken]

85000 kays a day. Now thats impressive

[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:Me]

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:Me]

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:Me]

... 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