Checking a VIN

The first thing to do is go to your local Ferrari Dealer and have them look the car up. They can tell history from the time it lands and what recalls and campaigns have been done and maybe something else.

CarFax is always a good idea and cheap if it tells you anything.

Good Luck discovering the history of the 458, but make sure it wasn't a press car or track car. That is unless you want one of those

 

Not exactly. A dealer can only see any warranty work. The dealers are not connected together to share service history, other than warranty claims.

 

What's the VIN?

 

When I have run cars thru my dealer, he came back with the original owner's name, the dealer that sold it to him and of course any campaigns or warranty work.

 

Carfax only works when things are reported to them. Dealerships, insurance companies, and body shops sign up with them to report to them, if a car is repaired and not reported to them then Carfax has no idea anything was done. Carfax is very sporadic in this sense. Also if people demand these institutions to not report something than the institution has to not report to them.

Of course most mechanical repairs do not get reported to Carfax the main things that get reported to them are collision repairs, title information, and government inspections (state safety and emissions).

Now in the insurance world we use another reporting system however it's not avail to the public.

 

dealers have a dealer connect system to report when a car is in for work
you can look the vin up on that

 

Sorry Not true.

I have had three of my Ferraris checked this way at the dealer. The service dept has a direct computer link eith Ferri in Italy. They can check the background service compaign syatus etc, just like the ealier post stated. If you are buying from a dealer and they will not do this for you I would not buy the car.

If it is a private person calll another dealer maybe they will do it for you.

Good luck

Lee

 

would someone be able to check a vin for me?

 

correct

The factory has a system which requires that everytime a Ferrari {or Maserati} is in for service or related work the service advisor must log a "service entry" with the factory with the milage of the vehicle and the job-card number
there are strict rules on how service entrys are managed , also campaigns and warranty claims are made thru the system

in theory i should be able to check a VIN that has been sold in the USA or anywhere in the world but it would flag on the system that i am looking at that VIN

i often have people ring who are buying a car privatley however i cant release details unless they prove they own the car - the system als has a form that can be filled in by a new owner therby informing the factory of the new owner

 

Send me the vin and I can do it. I have free access as a dealer to Autocheck.

 

If you wouldn't mind checking one for me as well I would appreciate it. My high school son's BMW 3 series was totaled on Monday and I think I may have found the replacement today (fingers crossed). The VIN is WBAAM334XYCA92558.

Thanks in advance.

 

Autocheck seems to be more accurate that Carfax (and less $). I took a car in on trade a couple of years ago and it had a clean Carfax and showed three wrecks on autocheck. The car had obviously been on the losing end of a fight with a Freightliner but I was suprised to see the clean Carfax. Sine then I have seen the same thing at least a dozen more times but never the other way around. We stopped using Carfax about six months ago because of this and the cost difference. I think the fact that autocheck being owned by Experian (the credit reporting agency) is the reason.

 

We have to call originating dealers to find "service" history. We can not see service history through Ferrari OR our internal network. We only have access to warranty work and open/closed campaigns.

If we have physically seen a car, then we will have service history...but only work done at our store.