Copy any Kijiji, AutoTrader or Marketplace ad in here and you get what a mechanic sees when he reads it: the documented weak points on that exact platform, what to check before you hand over money, what the fixes actually cost from published GTA ranges, and the number you take into the negotiation.
Nothing is saved and there's no signup. Prices come only from the published Cars With Fares rate card, never generated, never guessed.
A pre-purchase inspection is $120–$250 flat at the seller's location, no parts, no unknowns, published price. It's the one job that doesn't need a phone call first: pick a real window below and it's held. Then forward the seller the page written for them so the permission conversation takes one text. And if the inspection finds work you want done, the inspection fee comes off the repair when Fares does it after you buy, the bounded terms are published: the exact fee, off one repair of $400 or more on that car, booked within 30 days.
A used-car ad is a sales document, and sales documents leak. "Runs great, no issues" on a twelve-year-old car with no service records is a claim, not a fact. "Selling as is" is a legal position. "Just serviced" usually means an oil change, not maintenance. None of these make a car bad, plenty of good cars are sold with lazy ads, but each one changes what an inspection should go looking for, and that's what this tool turns them into.
The other half is platform knowledge. Cars fail in patterns. A 2016 Civic and a 2016 Camry are both reliable and they age completely differently. Knowing the pattern before you look at the car is the difference between a test drive and an inspection. The full documented set lives in the common problems lookup; this page pulls the ones that apply to what you pasted.
The published 150-point checklist exists because "brakes look fine" is worth nothing in a negotiation and "3 mm on both rears" is worth real money. The sample report shows how those measurements come back written down, with the negotiation numbers pulled from the same published ranges you see above. Read both before you book, neither is behind a form.
The whole listing, title, asking price, mileage and the seller's description. The more of their own words, the better the read.
Only from the published rate card, the same ranges on the cost pages. Nothing on this page is priced by AI. If a job has no published range, the tool says so instead of inventing one.
No. It tells you what tends to go wrong and what to look for. Only someone measuring the car can tell you what that car needs, that's the pre-purchase inspection, $120–$250 flat at the seller's location.
Yes, with published bounds: the exact fee on your invoice comes off one repair of $400 or more, on the same car, for something written in your report, booked within 30 days. It doesn't apply to work Fares turns down, timing chains and belts, clutches, head gaskets, internal engine. Full terms here.
It's their car until you buy it, so yes. The ask is small on purpose: about an hour where the car already sits, nothing taken apart, nothing removed, and they get a copy of the report. The booking above hands you the exact text to send them, plus a page written for the seller you can just forward.
Bought it already, or it's your own car acting up? Same driveway, same flat-quote-first rule.