Chatswood puts a major-dealer strip and one of Sydney's tallest apartment precincts within a few blocks of each other. Whichever kind of seller you are dealing with, we attend the car, inspect it independently, and give you a photographed report before you commit.
The Pacific Highway corridor and the high-rise core around Victoria Avenue create two very different inspection environments inside one postcode.
Manufacturer-backed showrooms on the Pacific Highway store stock tightly and often on multiple levels. We need the car moved to open ground, unlocked, with keys available. Booking that in with the dealer the day before is the single most useful thing you can do to make sure the inspection is complete rather than partial.
The residential towers around Victoria Avenue have multi-level basements with posted height limits and narrow ramps. Beyond the obvious access problem, the lighting makes paint assessment unreliable. We ask for the car at street level for the body and underbody sections and do the diagnostic work wherever it is parked.
The Gore Hill Freeway and the Pacific Highway are minutes away, so the road test can include a sustained-speed leg instead of only suburban running. That is where wheel balance, driveline vibration, alignment pull and torque-converter lock-up become detectable rather than theoretical.
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 Chatswood. 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 Chatswood 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.
Licensed dealers routinely accommodate buyers' inspectors, and a reluctance to allow one is itself worth noting. We ask you to give them notice so the car is ready. We are engaged and paid by you and the report goes to you — we have no relationship with the yard.
Yes. Any tier can add the $199 EV or hybrid battery health assessment, which reports measured state-of-health data from the battery management system rather than a dashboard range estimate. That is the number that governs what the car will actually be worth in a few years.
$199 Essential, $329 Comprehensive and $449 Elite, GST included, with no North Shore travel surcharge. The battery health assessment is an additional $199 on any tier.
It depends on the tier and the car, and on how quickly we can get access to it. Comprehensive and Elite include the road test, scan-tool diagnostics and paint-depth work and are reported on site before the inspector leaves; Essential is a shorter visit reported the same day.
Chatswood sits inside our North Shore 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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