Comparison
WrenchReport vs Carfax: different questions about the same car.
This is the honest version: a history report and a WrenchReport are not substitutes. Carfax tells you what happened to a specific car. WrenchReport tells you what that model build is documented to do. Buyers about to spend $40 on history are exactly the buyers who should spend $5.99 on the failure record too.
Insurance claims, title events, registration and ownership records.
NHTSA owner complaints, recall campaigns and failure patterns for the exact year, make and model.
What happened to this car in the past?
What is this build engineered to do at 90,000 miles?
Accidents, title brands, odometer rollbacks, sale churn.
Engine and transmission patterns, recurring safety recalls, documented repair costs.
Minor unreported accidents and, above all, mechanical failure trends for the model.
This specific car’s accident and title history. We have never touched it.
Typically around $40 for a single history report.
$5.99 for one build, or 5 reports for $25.
Minutes, after purchase.
The pattern tally is free and instant; the full verdict arrives right after checkout.
So which one do you actually need?
Buying a ten-year-old car with a clean title story and 100,000 miles? The history report will be short, and the failure record is where the real risk lives. Buying a two-year-old car from a dealer? History matters more, and the free pattern tally here will likely come back too thin to charge for. Most used-car decisions deserve both — they cost about the same as one hour of a mechanic's time, combined.
The free check takes one VIN and under a minute. You only pay if the build has a record worth reading.