{"id":164,"date":"2024-08-21T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crashstatus.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2024-11-08T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T12:08:18","slug":"crashstatus-a-portal-that-will-help-you-buy-a-used-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashstatus.com\/blog\/crashstatus-a-portal-that-will-help-you-buy-a-used-car\/","title":{"rendered":"CrashStatus &#8211; a portal that will help you buy a used car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you want to buy a used car? Don&#8217;t want a dishonest seller to rip you off? The CrashStatus website will help you check the car before you buy it. Thanks to us, you can check a car\u2019s VIN for free to find out whether the car you are interested in is accident-free. With CrashStatus, you can also obtain a comprehensive VIN report, which will provide you with a huge source of information about the used car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the following text, we will explain how the CrashStatus portal works. First, however, we must start with an explanation &#8211; what is a VIN number?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget_hsp_vin_search\"><div class=\"bg-darkBlue rounded-[35px]  p-6 py-10  my-4 md:py-8 md:px-8 relative md:my-4 overflow-hidden\">\n\t<span class=\"absolute top-0 left-0 -z-1\">\n\t\t<svg width=\"217\" height=\"215\" viewBox=\"0 0 217 215\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t<path\n\t\t\t\td=\"M144.726 -54.6222L130.359 -29.7422L129.06 -27.5132L115.097 -3.31126L100.723 21.5759C113.02 28.7017 122.194 40.18 126.434 53.7417H18.4845C22.7228 40.1693 31.9067 28.6839 44.2162 21.5615L29.8494 -3.31126C18.9615 2.95445 9.59533 11.5512 2.42274 21.8623C-4.74986 32.1735 -9.55118 43.9437 -11.6369 56.3287C-13.7226 68.7137 -13.041 81.4066 -9.64102 93.4972C-6.24102 105.588 -0.206856 116.777 8.02872 126.261L-7.84615 153.788C-26.4642 135.86 -38.5436 112.218 -42.1594 86.6292C-45.7752 61.0406 -40.7192 34.9784 -27.7972 12.5962C-14.8752 -9.78602 5.16913 -27.2001 29.1413 -36.8709C53.1134 -46.5416 79.6338 -47.9123 104.476 -40.7647L119.189 -66.265C85.2176 -77.8477 48.1507 -76.3797 15.2025 -62.1467C-17.7457 -47.9137 -44.2177 -21.9341 -59.0613 10.7357C-73.9048 43.4054 -76.0578 80.4277 -65.1012 114.597C-54.1447 148.766 -30.8624 177.637 0.213959 195.591L14.5735 170.697L29.835 144.244L44.144 119.48L44.2018 119.379C31.7389 112.169 22.4875 100.489 18.3257 86.7082H126.563C122.399 100.489 113.145 112.17 100.68 119.379L115.04 144.244C125.922 137.981 135.284 129.389 142.455 119.083C149.625 108.778 154.427 97.0142 156.516 84.6356C158.605 72.257 157.929 59.5698 154.537 47.483C151.145 35.3961 145.121 24.2089 136.897 14.7229L152.771 -12.8189C171.385 5.11055 183.46 28.7518 187.074 54.3381C190.688 79.9245 185.633 105.984 172.713 128.365C159.793 150.745 139.752 168.16 115.784 177.833C91.8155 187.506 65.2981 188.882 40.4567 181.741L25.7508 207.242C59.7265 218.845 96.8061 217.391 129.768 203.162C162.73 188.933 189.214 162.948 204.062 130.269C218.91 97.5889 221.059 60.5541 210.09 26.3773C199.122 -7.79951 175.821 -36.6713 144.726 -54.6149V-54.6222Z\"\n\t\t\t\tfill=\"#2E3264\" fill-opacity=\"0.31\" \/>\n\t\t<\/svg>\n\n\t<\/span>\n\t<div class=\"relative flex flex-col items-center xl:flex-row \">\n\t\t<div class=\"w-full xl:w-50\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"font sans text-[28px] text-white xl:text-left text-center leading-none font-bold\">\n\t\t\t\tCheck the vehicle history\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"text-xs text-center text-white xl:text-left l\">\n\t\t\t\tCheck for free whether the car you want to buy - 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It is assigned by every car manufacturer in the world. The VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) consists of 17 characters, a combination of numbers and letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The VIN is impressed in several places on the car. For this purpose, manufacturers use metal plates that are impressed using metal dies and, more recently, increasingly using laser-burning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the ISO standard, the VIN number consists of three basic parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WMI <\/strong>&#8211; refers to the first three characters, which are the car manufacturer&#8217;s designation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VDS<\/strong> &#8211; refers to the next five or six characters, which allow the decoding the car\u2019s technical data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VSI<\/strong> &#8211; the remaining characters. They denote the serial number of the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do you need the VIN number for?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need your car&#8217;s VIN number when:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; you want to register a car<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; you want to register a cab or company car<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; you want to sell or buy a car<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; you want to perform a mandatory technical inspection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; there is a recall campaign related to a particular vehicle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; you want to insure the car<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; you want to claim damage from an insurer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; you are involved in an accident as the perpetrator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; you want to buy a spare part<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; you want to install additional non-factory equipment in your car, such as a towing hook or an LPG system<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; You want to report a stolen car<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; you want to deregister the car and scrap it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the most common situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police use VIN numbers to look for stolen cars, while insurers use them to sell insurance and record the events reported to them (sale, purchase, accident, flooding, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The VIN number is needed when you want to scrap the car (for disposal),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the above situations related to a car are registered in its history. The VIN number of the car is the key to retrieving such information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CrashStatus- how does it work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CrashStatus website gives you access to all available information on a given car that can be retrieved using its VIN number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will get a comprehensive, very clear report providing you with a lot of useful information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keep in mind that even light accident damage can be very expensive to repair. It&#8217;s best to look for, verify and buy an accident-free car!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CrashStatus &#8211; check the VIN number for free to find out whether the car of your choice is accident-free, has not experienced any flooding and is not stolen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The CrashStatus website gives you something you won&#8217;t find on other sites of this type. It&#8217;s a free VIN check<\/strong>. All you have to do is enter the VIN number of the car of your choice on our site. In no more than a few minutes (following a search of all available databases) you will find out whether there are any incidents registered for a given VIN number, or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If there are any events registered for a given VIN number, then<\/strong>: the car may have had an accident, the car may have experienced flooding, the car may have been stolen, the car may have been recalled for a repair action without response from its owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If there are no incidents registered for a given VIN number<\/strong> &#8211; you can safely check the car further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are looking for a good used car, sometimes you have to check a hundred cars to choose the one that really interests you. On other sites that enable you to check a car\u2019s VIN, you have to pay for each verification. <strong>On the CrashStatus website you will get the answer for free<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paid report on CrashStatus \u2013 a comprehensive car verification using its VIN.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Buy a comprehensive VIN report from CrashStatus<\/strong> &#8211; check the car of your dreams without leaving your house, for little money. You&#8217;ll save a lot of time! And if the vehicle is worth further checking &#8211; have it inspected at an auto repair shop of your choice, or use an auto appraiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The photo below shows a car with an ad: we buy cars after flooding<\/strong>. Do you also want some trader to buy a car cheaply after flooding and then conceal its damage to sell it to you at a bargain price? Certainly not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The seller does not want to provide the VIN number &#8211; what do you do?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In many used car sale advertisements, the seller enters the car\u2019s VIN number in the appropriate box . Take advantage of this and check the vehicle on CrashStatus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What if there is no VIN number in the description of the ad?<\/strong> Not every seller wants to provide the VIN number. They may also forget to do so. Ask the seller for the VIN number in a private message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What to do if the seller does not want to give you the VIN number?<\/strong> Don\u2019t buy such a car. It is likely that the seller has something to hide about the car you want to buy. Don&#8217;t take any chances. Find another good car. Take advantage of CrashStatus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to buy a used car? Don&#8217;t want a dishonest seller to rip you off? 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