Peakhurst is two suburbs in one. On the Forest Road side it is quiet St George family streets, brick homes, garaged cars and long ownership. On the Boundary Road side it is one of southern Sydney's busiest small industrial areas, full of vans, utes and wagons that carry weight every day and get sold on when a business upgrades or closes. That mix makes it a good place to buy and an easy place to be caught out. A family sedan from a long-term owner can be the best buy on the street; a van that has done fifteen years of trade work and had a quick detail can look almost identical in a listing and be worth a third as much. We come to the car, complete a structured inspection, run a professional multi-module diagnostic scan, road test it properly including the M5, 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.
Commercial vehicles fail differently to private ones. Sliding doors, cargo floors, rear springs, clutches and diesel emissions hardware wear out under daily load while the odometer stays deceptively modest. Long-held family cars, meanwhile, fail on the calendar: perished rubber, overdue fluids and timing components on a car that has barely been driven. The inspection has to know which one it is looking at.
We operate every sliding door through its full travel and check the rollers and tracks, inspect the cargo floor and wheel arches for load damage and corrosion, check rear leaf springs for sag and broken leaves, and look at the rear tyres for the wear that a permanently loaded rear end produces.
A van doing short suburban runs between jobs never gets hot enough to regenerate its particulate filter properly. We read soot-load and regeneration-history data, look for limp-mode events, inspect the intake for carbon build-up and check for oil dilution from failed regenerations.
Trade vehicles are often manuals driven by many hands. We assess bite point, slip under load, judder from standstill and dual-mass flywheel rattle at idle, because a clutch and flywheel job on a modern diesel van is a major expense.
A vehicle sold when a business closes or restructures often has money owing, a company as the registered owner, or a fleet history spread across several workshops. We verify VIN and compliance, check for money owing, confirm who the registered owner is, and reconcile service history against the odometer.
A car owned for fifteen years and serviced by kilometres can be years overdue on brake fluid, coolant, transmission fluid and timing belt. We check the record against dates and flag anything due by time, and we read every tyre's date code because old tyres with good tread still need replacing.
The M5 is minutes away and a lot of Peakhurst cars use it daily. We road test at motorway speed and check wheel bearings, tyres, suspension bushes, shocks and driveline joints for the wear that only shows above ninety kilometres an hour.
Vans and family cars both collect car-park damage. We take paint-depth readings on every panel, look for overspray on rubbers and mismatched light date stamps, and inspect behind the bumpers and along the sills for crush and cheap repair.
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 Peakhurst. 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 Peakhurst 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, cargo floor, rear springs, clutch, diesel emissions hardware and load-related wear are all specifically assessed.
It means the paperwork needs checking carefully: registered owner, money owing and service history across workshops. We do all of that.
Yes. Bearing noise, vibration and tracking faults only appear at speed.
Yes, provided there is safe space to work around the vehicle.
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.
Peakhurst sits inside our St George 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 PeakhurstBook a same-day inspection in Peakhurst
At the seller's address · from $199
