Burwood buyers are usually choosing between two very different transactions: a licensed yard on the Parramatta Road frontage, or a private sale out of an apartment garage near Burwood Road. The inspection is the same either way — independent, on site, and reported to you with photographs before you hand over a deposit.
Burwood packs a motor-trade arterial and one of the densest apartment precincts in the Inner West into a small council area. Which of the two your car is sitting in changes the practical shape of the inspection.
Cars on a highway yard are often parked bumper-to-bumper in display rows with other stock behind them. To inspect properly we need the car moved to open ground with the keys available. Let the yard know an independent inspector is booked so that is arranged before we arrive — it is the difference between a full inspection and a compromised one.
The towers around Burwood station have basement car parks with height limits and tight bays. That is fine for interior, electrical and diagnostic work but poor for reading paint and impossible for a clean underbody view. We ask for the car to be brought up to street level for those sections.
Burwood gives easy access to slow, heavily-signalised arterial running on Parramatta Road and, minutes away, faster running toward the M4. We use both deliberately: the slow leg exposes low-speed shift quality, brake shudder and steering slop, and the faster leg exposes balance, driveline vibration and lock-up behaviour.
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 Burwood. 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 Burwood 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. We attend licensed yards and private addresses equally. We are independent of every yard we attend — you engage us, you pay us, and the report goes to you first. Please tell the dealer in advance so keys, trade plates and paperwork are ready when we arrive.
A seller's own check is not an independent assessment, and it is not written for you. An independent pre-purchase inspection is commissioned by the buyer, reports the faults as found with photographs, and does not have a sale riding on the outcome. That is the whole point of the exercise.
$199 Essential, $329 Comprehensive, $449 Elite, GST included, with no travel surcharge inside our Sydney service area. The EV and hybrid battery health assessment is an extra $199 and can be added to any tier.
That depends on inspector availability in the Inner West and on when the seller or yard can make the car available. We confirm a time with you once we have spoken to them rather than promise a window we have not checked.
Yes with Comprehensive and Elite. It confirms what is recorded against the VIN — finance owing, written-off status and stolen records. On a private sale that matters most, because an encumbrance follows the car rather than the seller.
Burwood sits inside our Inner West 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
