Open Recall vehicle reports and OPTIONS

[Burt Lewis]

Good afternoon,

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but we are an independent used dealer who has been using the AutoCheck Open Recall Inventory Check Report to keep up with our recalls. Unfortunately the reports stopped coming and we can't get an answer as to why so we are looking at other options. Carfax recently raised the price on their package so they are out. Does anyone know where else or who else provides dealers with weekly open recall lists? We do not want to manually enter each VIN. Thank you!

 

[Burt Lewis]

No answers, let me ask this a different way. Aside from checking each VIN manually, how does everyone stay on top of new or active open recalls? We are a used only independent with 100 vehicles and have been using AutoCheck's weekly open recall email reports but having trouble receiving accurate data and consistent reports. We have used carfax's open recalls report in the past but are no longer a carfax customer. Does anyone know of a service other than AutoCheck or carfax that we can subscribe to that will show open recalls for our active inventory? Thank you!

 

[Alex Snyder]

No answers

It is a good question, Burt. Sorry nobody piped up yet. My only guess is the bulk of the weekend's visitors are franchised dealers who rely on the OEM system directly.

 

[Tallcool1]

If you are a Carfax dealer, you can log onto your Dealership Dashboard to look at all outstanding recalls in your inventory.

If you are a Frazer dealer, you may find that they have a partner that could provide this on a bulk level.

Otherwise, I don't know how you would go about it.

 

[Burt Lewis]

We don't subscribe to carfax any longer but when we did we used their recall data. AutoCheck includes a recall/safety notice report but it's extremely unstable to the point where it stopped being sent 3 weeks ago. Numerous calls started the emails up a few days ago and we received 3 so far all with a list of ZERO recalls. If anyone has any bulk recall data retrieval options, please let me know. Thank you.

 

[ChrisR]

Homenet and vAuto give heads up as to which vehicles have recalls, if you use either service.

 

[jscole86]

Homenet and vAuto give heads up as to which vehicles have recalls, if you use either service.

I think you need CarFax in order for Homenet / vAuto to populate. Unless they've changed something recently.

 

[Burt Lewis]

Thank you for the responses.

 

[Jeff Kershner]

I think you need CarFax in order for Homenet / vAuto to populate. Unless they've changed something recently.

Yes, you need to have a separate CarFax account for it to display in HomeNet. It's a nice feature!

 

[Uchenna]

We don't subscribe to carfax any longer but when we did we used their recall data. AutoCheck includes a recall/safety notice report but it's extremely unstable to the point where it stopped being sent 3 weeks ago. Numerous calls started the emails up a few days ago and we received 3 so far all with a list of ZERO recalls. If anyone has any bulk recall data retrieval options, please let me know. Thank you.

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