Is this car the one
on its papers?
Lotsure checks every trade-in and stock car at intake, and gives one plain answer in about ten minutes.
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Stop
The VIN doesn’t match the papers
Don’t buy or sell this car until it’s cleared
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Lotsure checks every trade-in and stock car at intake, and gives one plain answer in about ten minutes.
Found in the walk-around, before anyone paid for the car. Lotsure shows you where the VINs differ and what could explain it. What it means is for you and SAPS to decide.
It lines up the VIN on the licence disc with the VINs stamped on the body and stored in the car’s computers, and reads the kilometres the car remembers.
On the phone in your salesperson’s hand
The app walks them through the intake in the order they’d do it anyway. Nothing to type that a photo or a scan can read.
What it catches
Most cars are what their papers say. These are the ones that cost a dealer more than a month’s profit.
| What goes wrong | How it happens | What Lotsure reads | What you see |
|---|---|---|---|
| A cloned or stolen car | Another car's disc and number plates on this one. If SAPS takes it off your floor, the money you paid goes with it. | The VIN stored in the engine computer, ABS, airbag and other parts, against the disc and the stamping on the chassis. | Stop The VIN doesn't match the papers |
| Kilometres wound back | The dashboard says 61 000 km. The car has done 149 000. You find out when the next owner does. | The kilometres the ABS, engine computer and instrument cluster each keep for themselves. | Check further Another part counts more km than the dashboard |
| An accident nobody mentioned | The airbags went off, the car was repaired, and the trade-in form says nothing. | Faults stored in the airbag module, and parts built well after the rest of the car. | Check further Airbag has stored faults |
| Warning lights cleared that morning | Codes wiped before the car came in, so the dash looks clean on the test drive. | How far the car has driven since its fault codes were last cleared. | Check further Fault codes were cleared recently |
A report you can hand over
Every check makes a PDF with the date, who checked the car, every VIN that was read, the photos, and what was and wasn’t checked.
Send it to the seller when you turn a car away, to your finance house, or keep it on the stock file. The owner sees every check the team has done in the dealer portal, searchable by registration or VIN.
What Lotsure never does
It never calls a car a clone.
It tells you what doesn’t match and what could explain it, the innocent reasons included: a replaced instrument cluster, a misread stamping, a disc from another car. Deciding what happens next stays with you.
The car test only reads.
It asks the car’s computers for what they already store. It never clears a fault code, changes a setting or writes to the car, and before it finishes it checks the car was left exactly as it was found.
Try it on a car from your own lot
One monthly price per dealership, whoever on your team does the checking. Pricing