carwow partners with MotorCheck
June 12, 2023 by carwow staff
Car changing is a big deal
New partnership brings extra peace of mind for car buyers
carwow, the new and used car marketplace, has announced a new partnership with leading vehicle data provider, MotorCheck, to provide dealers with even more peace of mind when buying stock through carwow鈥檚 stock sourcing platform.
MotorCheck maintains a database of more than 3.5m vehicles that have had previous damage history, but which may not show on traditional vehicle-history checks. In addition to damage history, carwow also receives data on a vehicle鈥檚 previous usage and will be able to confirm to dealers whether a vehicle has been used as an ex-taxi, ex-police, ex-military or ex-emergency-services vehicle.
carwow will be integrating this data into its listing approval process, ensuring that any vehicles with undesirable accident history do not make it to the platform for sale as they will be automatically removed prior to becoming a visible listing. Any vehicles with an ex-taxi, emergency service background will be clearly flagged in the platform to ensure dealers have full transparency and can bid accordingly.
James Pollard, Director 鈥 Sell My Car carwow, said: 鈥淲e recognise that whilst the vast majority of direct-to-consumer purchases end up with very happy buyers and sellers, there is a small risk in paying sellers for vehicles, before the vehicle has been fully inspected in a workshop. We鈥檙e continually looking to improve our service and want to give all our customers total confidence 鈥 including dealers who source stock with us. That鈥檚 why we鈥檙e delighted to be partnering with MotorCheck. By integrating their data into our platform, we can ensure that our dealer partners have total trust in the stock going to their forecourts.鈥
Commenting on the partnership Shane Teskey, MotorCheck鈥檚 Co-Founder said 鈥淲e鈥檙e excited to be working with carwow on this initiative and applaud their commitment to protecting trade buyers on their direct to dealer platform. MotorCheck has proven itself to be the market leader in identifying undocumented insurance write offs and we look forward to benefiting carwow dealers with our enhanced data checks over the coming months and years ahead.鈥
The news of the partnership comes as carwow recorded a record-breaking start to the year, having sold over 拢1.18bn-worth of used-stock to dealers since the company acquired used-car buying platform, Wizzle in June 2021.