ARLINGTON, Texas -
The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association said late last week that its National Member Benefits Program and the CARCO Group have struck a deal to help association members be certain that vehicles for sale on their lots have clean records.
CARCO powers the CheckThatVin website. This portal taps into the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System to obtain a vehicle’s title and salvage history as well as its reported odometer reading.
CheckThatVin provides title and brand information, in addition to data from state departments of motor vehicles, insurance companies, as well as junk and salvage businesses.
NIADA members are being offered access the NIADA.CheckThatVin.com portal and are being given exclusive member pricing. Officials said that each vehicle search through the portal will only cost NIADA members a maximum of $2.50. The fee could possibly be less for these dealers, they noted. The CARCO volume discount is being offered to NIADA.
Basically, the more searches that NIADA dealers combine to make during a particular month, the less expensive it will be to search the next month, officials explained.
“We are thrilled to be able to extend our service with exclusive member benefits to the NIADA membership,” shared James Owens, chief executive officer of CARCO.
“There is no better way for NIADA members to protect themselves than by checking every car they are considering bringing on their lots with our NMVTIS service,” he continued. “Unlike other commercially available services, CheckThatVIN offers title, brand and salvage information, all pulled from the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System — and because of that, it’s a very valuable tool.”
Scott Lilja, NIADA’s vice president of member services, added: “We are pleased to offer the members of NIADA the opportunity to protect their businesses and especially to offer them a very aggressive discount to do so, via our new National Member Benefit Partnership with NIADA.CheckThatVIN.com.
“This provides our members additional risk mitigation services via a service that is very convenient and easy to use,” he concluded.