Understanding Car reports (FirstCheck)
Hi all,
I am a complete novice when it comes to buying cars and I recently got burned on a purchase of a Merc A45 that has now made me somewhat paranoid in buying my next car.
Long story short, I am looking at a 2023 RS3, low mileage, 26 000km's still under plan till 2028.
I pulled a paid report on it and noticed that there was a claim for an accident that happened in 2024 when the car only had 1355km's - here is a screen grab from the report:
I asked Audi to give me a full report on the car from their system which they did, they told me that there are no flags on their system for the vehicle. I won't share the whole thing for brevity but here is a snippet of their records around the time this happened:
Warranty claims for this period (the odometer reading of 35724 is a typo I suspect by the Audi tech):
The car itself looks great and the price is fair. I have asked the dealership to get an 80 point check done by Audi and send me the report - they agreed to it.
Just some things strike me as odd and wanted to pick peoples more experienced brains here. The "accident" happened according to the report at 1355km's in May 2024, the next service was Aug 2024, 3 months later and the car only did 1km?
I am trying to understand the damage report, its basically saying that the car got hit from almost every angle, meaning it was involved in something serious? Is there any other possible explanation? I don't know how these reports are constructed. It also reports mechanical, what defines mechanical - I assume if a steering arm needed to be replaced as an example that would be mechanical? Just trying to assess how serious this could be.
Any other insight on this would be appreciated.