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In 2006, an estimated 34% of American used-vehicle buyers bought a vehicle history report.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2006/05/10/006250.html |title=J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Vehicle History Reports Are Becoming Increasingly Important to Used-Vehicle Buyers |publisher=Theautochannel.com |access-date=2010-08-15}}</ref> Vehicle history reports are one way to check the track record of any used vehicle. Vehicle history reports provide customers with a record based on the vehicle's [[vehicle identification number]] (VIN). These reports will indicate items of public record, such as [[vehicle title branding]], [[lemon law]] buybacks, [[odometer fraud]], and [[product recall]]. The report may indicate minor/moderate collision damage or improper vehicle maintenance. An attempt to identify vehicles that have been previously owned by hire car rental agencies, [[Emergency service|police and emergency services]] or taxi fleets is also made. Consumers should research vehicles carefully, as these reporting services only report the information to which they have access.
In some countries, the government is a provider of vehicle history, but this is usually a limited service providing information on just one aspect of the history, such as the United Kingdom's [[MOT test|Ministry of Transport history]]. The [[U.S. Department of Justice]]'s National Motor Vehicle Title Registration System has only about a dozen approved data providers, about half of which sell car history data to consumers; the rest work only with car dealers. None of them are currently free of charge to consumers and many are not free even to the car dealers.<ref>{{citation |publisher=U.S. Department of Justice, National Motor Vehicle Title Registration System |url= https://www.vehiclehistory.gov/nmvtis_vehiclehistory.html |title=Research Vehicle History; Approved NMVTIS Data Providers |access-date=7 October 2020}}</ref> The [[Better Business Bureau]] recommends using one of these approved data providers when researching a used car.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.bbb.org/utah/news-events/bbb-scam-alerts/2016/04/questionable-vehicle-history-report/ |date=April 5, 2016 |title= Selling a Car? Watch Out for Fake Buyer Trying to Trick you into Buying Questionable Vehicle History Report |publisher=Better Business Bureau |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160611194722/https://www.bbb.org/utah/news-events/bbb-scam-alerts/2016/04/questionable-vehicle-history-report/ |archive-date=11 June
Several of the services, most notably those in the [[United Kingdom]] and the United States, sell reports to dealers and then encourage the dealers to display the reports on their Internet sites. These reports are paid for by the dealer and then offered for free to potential buyers of the vehicle.
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