You Don't Lose Money Selling a Bad Car

You lose it buying one. Revvaro tells you what a unit will cost to recondition and own — before you bid.

Run Your Next Deal Free
749owner complaints pulled for one 2022 model we tested
NHTSA + EPAevery fault, recall and MPG figure traced to a government source
~60 secfrom VIN to a full ownership and recon breakdown

Built Around the Moment That Decides Your Margin

Auction, trade-in, or a private seller — the number you need is the same.

1. Enter the Unit

A VIN, a screenshot of the listing, or details you type in yourself from an auction sheet.

2. Checked Against Federal Records

Cross-checked against NHTSA owner complaints, open recall campaigns and EPA figures — then the work is priced on top of them.

3. Get Your Ceiling

A recon estimate and a maximum sensible bid, before the bidding gets emotional.

A Bad Score Is the Report That Just Made You Money

Most tools in this category are built to reassure a buyer. Revvaro is built to stop you overpaying. When it comes back harsh — a four-figure recon bill, a known transmission fault, an open recall — that's the report that earned its keep, because it's the unit you didn't buy or the bid you dropped $2,500.

What You Get on Every Unit

Institutional-grade data, priced for a small lot.

Reconditioning Estimate

Short- and long-term service costs itemized — brakes, tires, fluids, the predictable stuff and the expensive surprises.

Maximum Sensible Bid

Asking price measured against projected depreciation and the cost to make the unit retail-ready.

Faults Owners Reported

Pulled from NHTSA for that exact year, make and model — with counts. Not an AI's impression of what usually goes wrong.

Open Recalls

Every outstanding safety recall, including do-not-drive and park-outside campaigns. Cheap to fix if you know.

Depreciation Window

Projected value at one and three years, so you can judge how long you can sit on a unit before it costs you.

A Report for the Buyer

When a unit scores well, share the PDF as third-party backup for your asking price. You choose what gets shared.

Trade Pricing

Per month. Cancel whenever. Every plan includes VIN lookup, PDF export and the full data-backed report.

Flipper

$49/mo

A few cars a month

  • 25 reports per month
  • VIN, listing or manual entry
  • Recon & max-bid estimates
  • NHTSA complaints, recalls & safety
  • PDF export
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Dealer Pro

$199/mo

Multiple buyers, real volume

  • 250 reports per month
  • Everything in Small Dealer
  • Team seats
  • Bulk VIN analysis
  • Direct line to us
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Buying one car for yourself? The consumer version starts at $8.99 a report.

Frequently Asked Questions

Reports are yours. Nothing is published and nothing is shared automatically — you decide, per unit, whether to hand the PDF to a buyer. Most dealers use Revvaro on the buy side and only share the reports that help them. The value of a harsh report is that it stops you acquiring the unit in the first place.

Known faults come from the NHTSA owner-complaint database for that exact year, make and model, with real report counts. Recalls come from the NHTSA recall campaigns database, fuel economy from the EPA, and crash ratings from NCAP. The costing and ownership forecast are modeled on top of those figures rather than guessed at.

Any of three. Paste a VIN and the vehicle decodes automatically, upload a screenshot of a listing, or type the details in yourself — useful for an auction sheet or a car that was never listed online.

About a minute. Fast enough to run on a unit while you're still standing in front of it, or between lanes at an auction.

Yes. You get free reports on signup with no card required. Run them on cars you're actually looking at — if the numbers don't change what you'd pay, don't pay us.

Try It on a Car You're Actually Looking At

Free reports on signup. If the numbers don't change what you'd pay, don't pay us.

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