Selling your car yourself?

A private seller's hardest problem is that strangers have no reason to trust them. These tools are free, need no signup, and are built on the same federal records this whole site is made of: what owners reported to NHTSA, and which recall campaigns exist for the vehicle.

Why a QR code instead of a wall of numbers?

The sign prints what you tell it: the year, make and model, your price, mileage, up to three selling points and your phone number. Nothing else. No scores, no counts, nothing about your car that you did not type.

The QR code is there because the hardest part of a private sale is that a stranger has no reason to believe you. Scanning it pulls that exact vehicle's free federal safety record — the recall campaigns NHTSA has on file for the year, make and model, and what owners have reported. Inviting the check is what makes a seller look like they have nothing to hide. If you would rather leave it off, there is a checkbox for that too.

What no tool can honestly tell a buyer is that a car is "clear." Whether a specific VIN's recalls were repaired is not published in any open dataset, so the record page points buyers to the government's own free VIN lookup instead of guessing.

Records on file for 6,306 vehicles.

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