Repaired collision damage is invisible in a driveway inspection and expensive to discover later. Enter the VIN to see what was reported.
Accident records with dates and, where reported, damage severity.
Total-loss records where an insurer declared the vehicle not worth repairing.
Which area of the vehicle was affected, where the record specifies it.
Salvage, rebuilt, irreparable and flood brands, including brands applied in another province.
Repair work carried out afterwards, which shows whether damage was properly addressed.
Frame and structural damage flags, the category that most affects safety and resale.
Enter the 17-character VIN from the windscreen, door jamb or registration document.
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What counts as salvage or irreparable, and when a brand must be applied, varies between provinces. A vehicle branded in one province and re-registered in another does not always carry the brand forward as clearly as buyers assume.
British Columbia has ICBC, Quebec has the SAAQ, Manitoba has MPI, while Alberta and Ontario are private markets. Which claims get recorded, and how, depends on where the accident happened.
Damage repaired privately, without an insurance claim, generates no record anywhere. This is the single biggest limitation of any history report, ours included — which is why a report supports a mechanical inspection rather than replacing one.
A car imported from the US may have a collision or flood record in a state database and a spotless Canadian record. The American history is the part a provincial search will not surface.
Accident entries appear with a date and whatever detail the reporting source captured — often the damage area and severity, sometimes an estimated repair cost. A record showing structural or frame damage matters far more than a bumper repair, because structural work affects how the vehicle behaves in a subsequent collision. Where repair records follow an accident record, that is a positive sign: it means the damage was addressed and documented rather than left.
See a full sample reportEnter the 17-character VIN. The report returns reported collision and damage records, insurance write-offs and title brands, for vehicles registered anywhere in Canada as well as imported vehicles carrying US records.
No, and be wary of any service that says otherwise. Only reported damage can appear. If a collision was repaired privately with no insurance claim and no police report, no history provider can see it. Treat a clean report as encouraging, not conclusive, and still have the car inspected.
Salvage means an insurer declared the vehicle a total loss. Rebuilt means it was repaired and passed a provincial inspection allowing it back on the road. Irreparable, used in Ontario, means the vehicle may only be used for parts or scrap and cannot be registered again. The exact terms and thresholds vary by province.
Not necessarily, but it should change the price substantially and it will affect insurance and resale. Get a rebuilt vehicle inspected by someone independent who knows what to look for in repaired structural work.
Yes, and you should. Imported vehicles are exactly where accident history goes missing, because the damage record sits in an American database while the Canadian registration looks clean.
Enter the VIN to see which records exist. The preview is free.