{"id":110,"date":"2026-06-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/2026\/06\/18\/reading-a-vehicle-history-report\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:00:00","slug":"reading-a-vehicle-history-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/reading-a-vehicle-history-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading a vehicle history report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">A history report collects what official records know about a car. It cannot tell you everything, but it tells you where to look.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Title<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A clean title is what you want. Salvage, rebuilt or flood titles mean the car was written off at some point and is worth much less.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Owners and use<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many owners in a short time, or a past as a rental or fleet car, are not deal-breakers, but they explain wear and should lower the price.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accidents<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reported damage is rated by severity. Ask for repair invoices and check that panel gaps and paint match on the side that was hit.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Service gaps<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long gaps without a service or a mileage record can hide a rolled-back odometer. Match the service book with the report line by line.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title, owners, accidents and service gaps \u2014 what each line really tells you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_avava_byline":"A. Chen","_avava_car":0,"_avava_notes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[38,46],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buying","tag-buying","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}