[joekitch]

i was on the phone with some guy up north of me who had a silver 328xi coupe for sale. decent car but he mentioned something very interesting to me...

he said a customer came to him a while ago looking at one of his cars (he's a collector who sells some stuff on the side), and came in the door with the full maintenance history of the car, both from BMW dealers and from ASC (or maybe it was AEC?) certified mechanics. the customer said it was from some special tool or website and showed it to the guy. he has since misplaced the name of this website (he wrote it down, somewhere)

does this exist?
where is it?

this could be the best tool for buying a used bmw ever made.
especially if it includes scans of the maintenance reports, or at least digitized copies, so you know what was replaced and what problems the customer complained about.

[smithf80]

I don't think theres any 3rd party site that can access BMW's internal history.

Its hard enough just to get them to give you a print out

[GreaseJunkie]

Carfax would show most of the service history. Not in the detail the dealer could, but enough to get a firm grasp of the history.

[Frenk]

does not exist

[joekitch]

Originally Posted by GreaseJunkie

Carfax would show most of the service history. Not in the detail the dealer could, but enough to get a firm grasp of the history.

whenever i run a carfax it just says oil changes, no detail at all

not to mention carfax doesnt have any kind of unlimited vin check for 30 days thing like autocheck, which sucks

[GreaseJunkie]

Originally Posted by joekitch

whenever i run a carfax it just says oil changes, no detail at all

not tCarfaxion carfax doesnt have any kind of unlimited vin check for 30 days thing like autocheck, which sucks

Unlimited Reports on Carfax is $55 annually if you're a consumer. Never used autocheck. But my carfax showed brake services as well as state inspections when I purchased the car. It even showed the new tires and rear brakes the dealer had installed. I think it has a lot to do with where the vehicle is serviced. I know for a fact that every service we do at my indy shop is on a vehicle's carfax. Our point of sale system is designed around it. I'd imagine smaller mom n pop shops probably wouldn't have such a system. But they could.

[joekitch]

well, with that shot down
does anyone here have access to dealer maintenance records for a vin? maybe run it through your system when you have a second tomorrow or something?

WBAVT73538FZ37525

not sure if i'm out of line asking for this though...

[joekitch]

Originally Posted by GreaseJunkie

Unlimited Reports on Carfax is $55 annually if you're a consumer. Never used autocheck. But my carfax showed brake services as well as state inspections when I purchased the car. It even showed the new tires and rear brakes the dealer had installed. I think it has a lot to do with where the vehicle is serviced. I know for a fact that every service we do at my indy shop is on a vehicle's carfax. Our point of sale system is designed around it. I'd imagine smaller mom n pop shops probably wouldn't have such a system. But they could.

wait, i thought that unlimited carfax thing was only for license plates? not on vins? did that change recently or something?

[techwhiz]

Depends on the dealer and what they report.
CarFax will not show everything.
I got a detailed printout of the service history of my car from the dealer from the day the car was put into service.

They are not supposed to give you anything that was done before you owned the car. but I guess it depends on how well you know and how well your SA like you.

[atinybug]

When I bought my used 335i I asked the dealer for the service history, and they gave it to me right away. But then again that dealer is consistently ranked top 10 in the US for customer service among BMW dealerships.