Yagoona sits on the Hume Highway between Bankstown and Bass Hill, with a long motor-trade frontage on the highway and quiet postwar streets behind it. We come to the car — a driveway, a unit block or a yard — and give you the written report before any money moves.
The Hume Highway frontage and the residential grid behind it produce two quite different inspection settings, and the highway itself gives us the road test.
The Hume Highway through Yagoona carries a long run of vehicle sales and motor-trade premises. Inspecting at a yard works well, but only if the car has not been started and warmed before we arrive and the keys are available for the whole visit. We ask for both when we confirm, because a warm engine costs you the cold-start evidence permanently.
At a private address nobody has an interest in the outcome. At a dealer or trader yard, someone does. We are engaged and paid by you, the report goes to you, and the findings are not routed through the seller. That independence is the entire value of the exercise, and it is why we do not accept work from the selling side.
The residential grid off Cooper Road and Rookwood Road is mostly detached housing with driveways and wide verges. That gives daylight, level ground for safe jacking and room to stand back from a panel — exactly the conditions the paint-depth and panel-gap portions of the inspection need. We ask that the car is out of the garage before we start.
Suburban speed hides most driveline faults. The highway gives sustained load within a minute of leaving the address, which is where wheel balance, vibration, torque-converter lock-up and brake shudder show themselves. Where the car is registered and insured and the seller consents, that is the leg we use before returning the car.
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 Yagoona. 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 Yagoona 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 it is a common job here. We ask the yard to leave the car unstarted and to make the keys available for the length of the visit. We are paid by you, not the seller, so the report and the verdict go to you unfiltered.
Because a warm engine can mask cold-start knock, start-up smoke, a noisy timing chain, a struggling battery and the first-minute behaviour of a hybrid system — and once it is warm you cannot get that back on the same visit. It is the single most useful request you can make of a seller before an inspection.
No travel charge. Essential is $199, Comprehensive $329 and Elite $449, and the EV or hybrid battery health assessment is $199 on top of any tier. All prices include GST. Yagoona 2199 is inside our standard Sydney service area.
Yes — a written-off, encumbered or stolen-listed vehicle is a problem no mechanical inspection alone will catch. We match the VIN on the car to the paperwork, not just to the listing, because a VIN that does not agree with the documents is worth stopping over.
Comprehensive and Elite reports are issued on site before the inspector leaves, so you can use them while negotiating. Essential reports are delivered the same day. Every report is photographed and finishes with a plain verdict.
Yagoona 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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