How a check works
One phone, done at intake before the car goes to the wash bay. The app saves as it goes, so a check can be picked up again if someone is called away.
Papers and walk-around
About four minutes
Scan the licence disc on the windscreen. Lotsure reads the VIN, registration and expiry date from its barcode, so nobody types seventeen characters by hand. If the disc is missing, type the VIN or read it off the car; the result will then say the car wasn’t compared with its disc.
Then walk around the car. Photograph the VIN stamped on the chassis, the label in the door frame and the kilometres on the dashboard. Lotsure reads each one, keeps the photo, and lines the VIN up with the disc. A character that doesn’t match turns red there and then.
The car test
Three to five minutes
Plug a Bluetooth OBD adapter into the diagnostic port under the dashboard and switch the ignition on. Lotsure asks every computer in the car that keeps a VIN for it: the engine computer, the ABS, the airbag module, the instrument cluster and others, depending on the make. It also reads the kilometres several of those parts count for themselves, and any stored fault codes.
It only reads. It never clears a code or changes a setting, and at the end it checks the car was left exactly as it was found. Which adapter to buy.
The answer
Straight away
One of three: No problems found, Check further or Stop. Every VIN is lined up with the disc. Each thing worth a question says what it means, the other possible reason, and the next step. The result always lists what couldn’t be checked on that car.
No problems found isn’t proof on its own. It means nothing Lotsure could read disagrees with the papers; carry on with your usual checks.
The report
One tap
Share a PDF with the date, who checked the car, every VIN, the photos, and what was and wasn’t checked. The owner sees every check in the dealer portal.
Coming later: finance, stolen and write-off records through a vehicle data provider, on the same check.