Bonnyrigg is family-car country, and it is a suburb where cars are bought and sold through networks rather than showrooms. A cousin's people mover, a neighbour's seven-seater, a listing shared through a community group. The trust in those sales is real, but it is trust in the person, not in the car, and the person very often has no idea what is wrong with it. Family vehicles here work hard. Multiple children, school runs, weekend markets, airport trips, and a lot of low-speed suburban running on Elizabeth Drive and the Cumberland Highway. Sliding doors, rear suspensions, transmissions and air conditioning systems all wear out early on a loaded people mover, and none of it shows in a listing photograph. We come to the car, complete a structured inspection, run a professional multi-module diagnostic scan, road test it properly and hand you a written, photographed report on the spot with a plain verdict and costed repairs. We do not sell cars and the seller pays us nothing.
Same-day or next-day inspection appointments, subject to availability.
Large, heavily loaded, low-speed family vehicles fail in a particular way. Rear suspensions sag, sliding-door mechanisms wear, transmissions run hot in traffic, and the whole vehicle is often maintained on the cheapest possible basis because the family budget goes elsewhere. Several owners in a short time is common. Sorting the genuine well-kept family car from the tired one is what the inspection is for.
People movers and large SUVs live or die on their hardware. We operate every sliding door through its full travel, test the power-close and child-lock functions, check the tailgate struts and latch, fold and slide every row of seats, and check the third-row seatbelts and anchor points, because a failed power door on some models is a four-figure repair.
Seven people and a boot full of shopping, every day for years, flattens rear springs and kills shock absorbers and bushes. We check ride height side to side, bounce test the rear, inspect springs for sag and cracking, and look at the rear tyres for the inside-edge wear that a sagging rear end produces.
A loaded people mover in stop-start traffic on the Cumberland Highway puts more heat through its transmission than a car on the motorway. We check fluid condition and colour, feel for flare and delay, test for CVT shudder where relevant, and scan for stored temperature and slip faults.
Rear air conditioning is the first thing to fail on a big family car and the last thing anyone checks. We measure vent output front and rear, check compressor engagement and cycling, and inspect the condenser and both evaporator systems.
When a car has changed hands several times through informal sales, the paperwork and the vehicle drift apart. We verify VIN and compliance plate against the car, check for money owing, compare the odometer against service records and interior wear, and confirm the seller is actually the registered owner.
Big vehicles in tight car parks collect damage. We take paint-depth readings on every panel, look for overspray on rubbers and mismatched light date stamps, and inspect the rails behind the bumpers, because a filler-and-respray repair on a sliding-door pillar can leave the door misaligned for good.
A people mover carrying its full load needs its brakes more than a hatchback does. We measure pad and rotor thickness against the manufacturer's minimum, check for heat damage, assess brake fluid condition, and read every tyre's date code and tread across its full width.
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 Bonnyrigg. 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 Bonnyrigg 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. Sliding doors, tailgate, all three rows of seats and belts, rear air conditioning and the rear suspension are all specifically assessed.
Yes. Trust in the person is not knowledge of the car, and most sellers are unaware of the faults on their own vehicle.
Yes. Verifying the vehicle's identity and financial and history status is part of the inspection.
Yes, regularly.
No. Flat fee, no travel surcharge.
Cars, utes, vans and SUVs. Not trucks, motorcycles, caravans or boats.
Yes. A costed, photographed defect list from an independent third party is the strongest negotiating position a buyer can have.
Bonnyrigg sits inside our South-West Sydney 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).
Inspection in BonnyriggBook a same-day inspection in Bonnyrigg
At the seller's address · from $199
