A salvage check is a way of seeing if a vehicle has been spotted and recorded in a salvage yard. When a vehicle has been in a accident, the owner may have no reported the damage to the insurance. This means the vehicle has been in a unrecorded accident. When a owner decides to accent the loss, the vehicle is sometimes sent to a scrap yard, in which it may then be sent to a salvage yard for people to try and repair the vehicle and get it back on the road.
This is appealing to a lot of car dealers as they can take advantage of car that should technically be a write-off, fixing it up, and reselling it. Becuase it has been unrecored, the next owner would have no idea the vehicle was once a write-off. Our salvage checks will see if the vehicle has been spotted in a salvage yard before, and will even show you images.
Around 1 in 9 vehicles put through our unique salvage check come back as a unrecorded write-off, which is a huge statistic to take into account.