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Check a car from Encar by VIN

Found the car on Encar or another Korean site? Take its VIN and check the Korean records before you pay or send a deposit.

Try a sample:

  • Free check
  • HTML + PDF
  • English or Russian
  • Refund if no report

Why check a car that is already on Encar

Encar is one of the largest used car marketplaces in South Korea, and many cars exported from Korea are bought there. A listing shows what the seller and the inspection say about the car today. The insurance history shows what happened to it before: every claim with its date, the repaired parts and the amount paid.

Read both side by side. A repair in the insurance history should match what the listing and its inspection record say about painted and replaced panels.

How to find the VIN of an Encar car

  • Look in the vehicle details of the listing.
  • Open the performance and condition inspection record (성능·상태점검기록부) attached to the listing: the VIN (차대번호) is written in it.
  • Ask the seller or your export agent for the VIN or a photo of the registration document.
  • Make sure it has 17 characters. A Korean plate number such as 12가3456 is not a VIN.

What to compare

  • Accidents: the claims and their amounts against the panels marked in the listing
  • Mileage: the readings in the report against the odometer in the listing
  • Use: rental, taxi or business registration, often not mentioned in a listing
  • Owners and plate numbers: many changes in a short time are worth asking about
  • Flood, theft and total loss: any of them should stop the purchase

Also for KB Chachacha, K Car and dealers

The check works by VIN, so it does not matter where the car is listed: Encar, KB Chachacha, K Car, a Korean dealer or an export agent. See also our checklist for buying a car from Korea.

What the report shows

  • Accidents and repair costs

    Every insurance event with its date, the parts painted, repaired or replaced, and the amount paid.

  • Who paid for the repair

    Your car's insurer or the other party's: it tells you who was at fault.

  • Owners and plate numbers

    Each change of owner and of registration number, with dates. Frequent changes are a signal.

  • Mileage records

    Odometer readings from insurance events. A lower reading after a higher one is flagged.

  • Rental, taxi, business use

    Whether the car was registered for rental, commercial or government use.

  • Total loss, flood, theft

    The three events that should stop a purchase, checked in every report.

  • Specs, equipment, value

    Factory specification, safety equipment, estimated value, recall campaigns and export declarations.

Reports and prices

The free check comes first and shows which reports have records. You pay once, only for reports with records.

  • Korean Insurance History

    Official state data

    $9.90 per VIN

    Launch price $14.90 You save $5.00

    Accidents and repair costs, owners and plates, rental use, mileage, recalls, export.

  • Global Vehicle History

    $14.00 per VIN

    Launch price $19.90 You save $5.90

    Insurance auctions with photos, inspections and recorded history: damage, mileage, owners.

  • Complete report

    $19.90 per VIN

    Launch price $34.80 You save $14.90

    Korean Insurance History and Global Vehicle History

See the sample reports →

Questions

Some listings show an accident summary and an inspection record. Our report gives the insurance history by VIN with dates, parts and amounts, in English or Russian, and the Global Vehicle History adds auction, inspection and history records.

Yes, and it is the best moment. The free check takes about two minutes and needs only the VIN.

Ask the seller or the export agent for it. A seller who will not give the VIN is a reason to be careful.

Yes. The free check shows whether records exist for the VIN. You pay only for a report that has records, and a report that cannot be made is refunded automatically.

Usually within a few minutes after payment. It opens on the page and as a PDF, in English or Russian.

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