Pre-Purchase Inspection Skye — Buying From Interstate

Looking for an RACV-accredited workshop in Skye?

Worth understanding: RACV doesn’t send anyone to inspect the car itself. It accredits workshops against its standards and lists the ones that pass as RACV-Accredited Auto Care Centres, and whichever workshop you book carries out the actual work. We hold that accreditation, and every Skye inspection is done by our own technicians.

That gives you a published price — $460 incl. GST mobile, $395 at Cranbourne West — booked online rather than negotiated by phone, which matters if you’re not local. It also means we travel to Skye and deal with the seller directly. RACV members should confirm any benefits with RACV directly; that’s theirs to promise.

Buying from a distance, sight unseen

Skye sits between Cranbourne and Frankston, and a fair share of the cars we are asked to look at there are being bought by someone who is nowhere near them — a different suburb, interstate, sometimes overseas. When you cannot stand next to the car, the inspection stops being a precaution and becomes the whole transaction.

For those buyers we write the report accordingly: plainly, in full, describing condition rather than assuming you can go and look. We deal with the seller directly to arrange access, which is why we need their mobile number at booking. Skye is about 9 minutes from the workshop via McCormicks Road, near the recreation reserve and Sandhurst. $460 incl. GST, flat, wherever the car sits in the south-east.

I am buying from another state. Can you handle it?

Yes. We arrange access with the seller directly and send you the written report. You never need to be there — that is the point of a mobile inspection.

Can you send photos with the report?

Tell us when you book that you cannot see the car yourself and we will make sure the report reflects that — describing condition in full rather than assuming you can inspect it later.