How is your car actually holding up this year?

Platform-pattern windows shift with mileage. A read from a year ago at 90k miles isn't the same read as today's at 102k. Things that were 'still ignorable' last year may have moved into 'now worth planning for.' A once-a-year refresh keeps the picture current.

That's the best time to do it. A no-symptoms Verdict tells you what to watch for over the next year on your exact car at your exact mileage — recalls you may not have heard about, warranty extensions still in effect, and the failure patterns that tend to show up next.

No — pick whatever month is easy to remember. Birthday, registration renewal, the week you change your wiper blades. Spring is just the easiest anchor because most people are already thinking about road trips.

About 15 minutes from payment to delivery. Sent to your email when ready.

One Verdict pays for itself the first time you correctly defer a $1,200 repair that wasn't actually urgent. Catching a single active warranty extension pays for the next 10 years of annual check-ins. The math works even if you only spot one thing per decade.

No. We have no financial stake in what you decide. The Verdict tells you what the math says — healthy, watching, or now worth planning for. Most annual check-ins land in 'healthy' or 'watching' and recommend doing nothing.

Better to know now than after a quote. The Verdict gives you the math to plan around — what's coming, when, and roughly what it'll cost — so you can budget, shop around, or decide whether to keep the car at all.

Absolutely — encouraged. You'll get a shareable link. Plenty of customers send it to their shop to talk through it together.

Every Verdict carries a permanent audit_trail_id and lives at a stable URL, so you can pull last year's read side-by-side with this year's whenever you want. Year-over-year, you can watch what moved on your exact car at your exact mileage — same engine version, same calibration, byte-for-byte reproducible.

Yes — and it does, more often than people expect. The engine queries NHTSA recall and complaint data live against your VIN every time, so a recall issued after the dealer last had your car shows up in the next Verdict. Catching one open recall pays for the annual check several times over, since the repair is free under the recall.

Devon Smith. He ran a restoration shop — British marques were the specialty, but the work spanned the trade — until a critical motorcycle accident took him off the floor and closed the shop. Since then he has pivoted to building tools he wishes had been available for his clients — after watching too many customers make decisions without the information they needed, and watching others miss free coverage at the dealer. RepairVerdict is that tool: the veteran-mechanic analysis his customers should have had, completely automated.