Alexandria is former industrial land turned into warehouse apartments, showrooms and light-industrial units, bounded by Botany Road, McEvoy Street and O'Riordan Street. We inspect the car where it already sits and give you a written, photographed report before you commit.
This is a mixed commercial and residential postcode, so the setting for an inspection ranges from a terrace kerb to a warehouse loading bay to a motor-trade showroom, all within a few blocks.
The converted warehouses around Bourke Road and Fountain Street usually have gated ground-level or basement parking with numbered bays and no visitor spaces. Getting in needs a fob or an intercom code, so we confirm the access arrangement with the seller at booking. The bays themselves are often generous, which makes them better to work in than a residential basement.
This is one of the denser concentrations of vehicle showrooms and trade premises in the inner city. We attend those as readily as private addresses. What we ask for is the same in both cases: the car cold, keys available for the visit, and permission to road test where the vehicle is registered and insured.
Botany Road, O'Riordan Street and the container traffic heading to Port Botany keep the road surfaces here heavily loaded and often patched. Cars driven daily on them accumulate bush, strut-mount and sway-bar-link wear faster than a car on quiet suburban streets. We check for suspension play with the wheels off the ground rather than relying on a road-feel impression.
A lot of vehicles based here do short, stop-start runs that rarely bring the engine to full operating temperature for long. That produces oil condition, deposit and battery-health issues that a low kilometre reading conceals entirely. We read the oil, the cold-start behaviour, the battery state and the service intervals rather than the headline number.
You don't need to be there and you don't need to move the car. Timing depends on inspector availability in your area and on when the seller can make the vehicle available — we confirm a time with you once we've spoken to them.
Send the listing and the address of the car. Tell us if there is anything specific you want checked.
We contact the seller or the dealership directly and lock in a time that suits both sides, based on inspector availability in your area. You don't need to be there.
A qualified mobile inspector attends the vehicle where it is and works through the full checklist, including a road test.
Comprehensive and Elite reports are issued on site. Essential reports are delivered the same day. Every report ends with a plain-English recommendation and a phone call if you want to talk it through.
Every price below includes travel within our Sydney service area, so there is no surcharge for Alexandria. All prices include GST.
Visual and mechanical safety check, OBD-II scan, measured brake and tyre life, battery and charging test, and a road test.
Written photo report the same day
with code SAVE10
Everything in Essential plus a full mechanical assessment, an undertray-off leak-source check where safe and permitted, every suspension bush inspected, PPSR history and repair-cost estimates.
Report issued on site, before the inspector leaves
Everything in Comprehensive plus a senior inspector, paint-thickness readings on every panel, cold-start assessment, advanced history deep-dive and on-site price negotiation.
Report issued on site, before the inspector leaves
Adds a measured state-of-health assessment of the high-voltage battery on any EV or hybrid, issued as a separate certificate.
Certificate issued with your report
If we miss a major fault that was present at the time of inspection on an Elite Buyers' Protection inspection, we contribute up to $3,000 toward the repair within 30 days. Essential and Comprehensive do not include this cover.
A pre-purchase inspection in Alexandria removes most of the risk in a used-car purchase. It does not remove all of it, and you should know where the edges are before you book.
Yes, provided the seller arranges it. Those buildings are fobbed or intercom-controlled with no visitor bays, so we confirm the access method when we book rather than discovering it at a locked gate. The bays themselves are usually roomy enough to do good work in.
Yes. We are engaged and paid by you, so the report and the verdict go to you and are not filtered through the seller. We ask the premises for the car cold, for keys to be available for the visit, and for a road test where the vehicle is registered and insured.
Not automatically. Repeated short trips that never bring the engine to full temperature encourage moisture and deposit build-up and leave the battery chronically part-charged. What matters is the oil condition, cold-start behaviour, battery state and how regularly it was serviced — all of which are in the report.
$199 Essential, $329 Comprehensive or $449 Elite, plus $199 for the EV or hybrid battery health assessment. All prices include GST and travel. Alexandria 2015 is inside our standard Sydney service area, so there is no surcharge.
Comprehensive and Elite reports are issued on site before the inspector leaves. Essential reports are delivered the same day. Every report includes photographs and a clear verdict rather than a checklist you have to interpret.
Alexandria sits inside our Eastern Suburbs coverage. If the car you're chasing is a few suburbs over, it's the same service and the same price.
Tell us where the car is and we'll arrange the inspection with the seller. Written repair cover on Elite (30 days / up to $3,000).
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At the seller's address · from $199
