Vehicle Inspection Report: What Goes on It
A customer who hands you their keys expects something in writing when they get them back.
These vehicle inspection guides give plain, step-by-step help on inspection forms, checklists and reports: what to write down, in what order, and how to hand it to the customer.
A customer who hands you their keys expects something in writing when they get them back.
Before a used car goes on the lot, someone has to write down what is wrong with it.
Walking a car in a different order each time is how a tech forgets the battery or the wiper blades.
When every tech writes up a car in a different way, you end up with reports nobody can compare.
Choosing how your techs record an inspection can turn into a software project.
The customer is next to the car and the keys are still in your hand.
A reusable inspection sheet saves your techs from inventing a new write-up on every car.
Writing up an estimate is where work done and work recommended get mixed together.
Free inspection sheets are easy to find, and most of them were not made for a shop.
Recording tires the same way on every car takes one row per wheel position.
Every rental or loaner that leaves your counter needs two records, one for the handoff and one for the return.
Shop owners ask how many points a sheet should have, and the honest answer is that no rule sets the number.
Three printable, fillable inspection kits with your shop’s name on every sheet. Pay once, print as soon as the files arrive.