Campsie is built around Beamish Street and the T3 line, with Canterbury Road running along its northern edge. It is a dense mix of walk-up flats and older brick homes, and we inspect the car wherever it is parked — driveway, kerb or unit block — with the written report to you before you commit.
The thing that shapes a Campsie job is density: a lot of walk-up blocks from the 1960s and 70s with single carports, narrow rear lanes and streets that fill up completely by evening.
The classic 2194 block has one open carport per unit, reached down a narrow driveway or a rear lane. That is enough space to work if the neighbouring bays are clear, and often not enough if they are not. We ask at booking where exactly the car sits, so if it needs to be rolled out onto the street for the body and underbody work the seller knows before the inspector arrives.
Beamish Street is a signalised retail strip where nothing above idle speed can be assessed. Canterbury Road, a couple of hundred metres north, gives sustained speed and repeated load changes. Where the car is registered and the seller consents we road test there, because vibration, gearbox lock-up, brake shudder and steering pull need real speed and real braking to appear.
A car used mainly between Campsie and the inner city lives in traffic. Rather than assume anything about that, we scan the transmission and engine modules for stored and pending fault codes, watch live data through a stall and a load cycle, and inspect the clutch or torque-converter behaviour under brake. It is a measurement, not an assumption about the suburb.
The residential grid around Loch Street, Anglo Road and Evaline Street is fully parked from late afternoon. An inspection needs room around the car and a legal spot for the inspector's own vehicle. Booking a daytime slot, or arranging for the seller to hold a space, is the difference between a smooth job and half an hour of shuffling cars.
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 Campsie. 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 Campsie 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, and that is the most common setting here. A carport is workable for most of the inspection, but it restricts panel sight-lines and jack access when neighbouring bays are occupied. We ask for the car to be moved onto the street for those parts. Anything the parking prevented us from checking is stated in the report.
Not on Beamish Street. Where the car is registered and insured and the seller agrees, we use Canterbury Road or a similar arterial so the drivetrain, brakes and steering are actually loaded. Idling through a shopping strip is not a road test and we do not report it as one.
It changes where we look, not what we conclude in advance. Constant traffic use loads the clutch or torque converter, the brakes and the cooling system, so we scan-test the driveline, check fluid condition and assess brake material and behaviour under load, then report exactly what that particular car measures.
The advertised tier price with no travel surcharge: $199 Essential, $329 Comprehensive or $449 Elite, plus $199 if you add the EV or hybrid battery health assessment. Every price includes GST.
No. Most buyers are not. We deal with the seller directly, carry out the inspection, and send you the report — Comprehensive and Elite on site, Essential the same day. If you want to talk it through afterwards, you can call the inspector's findings through with us before you make an offer.
Campsie sits inside our Bankstown 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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