Granville sits where Parramatta Road meets Woodville Road, which makes it one of the busiest used-car crossroads in Sydney and one of the least pleasant places to assess a car standing on the kerb. We arrange somewhere workable with the seller first, then inspect properly.
The Parramatta Road and Woodville Road corridors carry heavy through-traffic all day, while the residential streets behind them are older, narrower and built for smaller cars than most people buy now.
Assessing a car with trucks passing a metre away is unsafe and it is also inaccurate — you cannot hear an engine idle, a bearing hum or an exhaust leak over that traffic. We move the car to a side street or an off-street space before starting, and listening for noise is a real part of the inspection, not a formality.
Much of Granville's housing predates modern vehicle sizes. Driveways are narrow, gutter crossings are sharp, and a long or low car often cannot be walked around. Front-lip and underbody scrape damage is worth looking at specifically on a car kept in one, and we will move it onto flat ground where the driveway does not allow a clean assessment.
Woodville Road provides the stop-start leg — brake shudder, low-speed shift quality, clutch or torque-converter behaviour — and the M4 is close enough for a sustained-speed leg that exposes vibration, balance and lock-up. Running only one of the two leaves half the driveline untested.
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 Granville. 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 Granville 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 alike, and we are independent of every seller we visit. Please give the yard notice so the car is unlocked, accessible and not blocked in by other stock when we arrive.
We do everything else and record the refusal in the report. A seller declining a road test on a registered, insured car is information in itself, and we would rather state that plainly than issue a report that reads as though the driveline was verified when it was not.
$199 Essential, $329 Comprehensive, $449 Elite, all GST inclusive with no travel surcharge to 2142. The EV or hybrid battery health assessment adds $199 to any tier.
Yes. Comprehensive and Elite include paint-depth measurement across the panels, plus panel-gap, fastener and inner-guard inspection. That reveals repainted and replaced panels and the signs of structural repair. Combined with the PPSR write-off records, it gives you a much fuller picture than a visual look-over.
Granville sits inside our Western 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).
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At the seller's address · from $199
