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Pre-purchase inspection checklists for every used vehicle

Free AI checklists for year/make/model combinations with enough NHTSA recall and owner-complaint data. Each guide lists the issues to inspect, a step-by-step test-drive walkthrough, the questions to ask the seller, and the documents to request before you sign anything.

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Browse to the recall hub for any year/make/model — vehicles with enough NHTSA data have a free inspection checklist linked from there.

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Inspection checklists

Step-by-step test-drive walkthrough tailored to known issues for that exact year/make/model.

Cost estimates

Five-year repair-cost ranges, maintenance to budget, and mileage bands. These figures are AI estimates, not NHTSA data.

Built from NHTSA data

Each guide starts from the NHTSA recall campaigns and owner-complaint counts for that year, make, and model, and is only written when there is enough of that data.

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Inspection checklists by make and model

2,685 checklists for 726 models. Each checklist is listed by model year. Listed here are the 14 models with the most checklists; every other vehicle's recall page links its own.

Chevrolet

Dodge

Ford

GMC

Honda

Jeep

Toyota