---
name: foryou-used-car-deal-check
description: Check a used car listing in one pass: price against the market, open recalls, reliability, and what to inspect before buying.
permissions: [web.read]
publisher_did: did:web:for.you.com
---

# Used car deal check

Check a used car listing in one pass: price against the market, open recalls, reliability, and what to inspect before buying.

## When to use

- "Is this used car a good deal?"
- "Check this car's VIN for recalls"
- "What should I pay for a 2019 Honda CR-V?"

## Steps

1. Get the year, make, model, trim, mileage, ZIP code, asking price, and the VIN if the listing shows one.
2. Search market value for that trim and mileage on two pricing guides (Kelley Blue Book, Edmunds) and against similar local listings, so the price can be called low, fair, or high.
3. Check open recalls by VIN on NHTSA's recall lookup (nhtsa.gov/recalls), and search known problems and reliability ratings for that model year.
4. Point the user to a vehicle-history report and a pre-purchase inspection by an independent mechanic, and list what to look at on this model.
5. Give a verdict with a fair offer range and the points that justify it, and flag scam signs such as a seller who wants a deposit before a viewing.

## Stop and confirm with the user

- Before contacting the seller or dealer on the user's behalf.
- Before any deposit or payment.
- Logins, card numbers, and security codes stay with the user: they type them into the provider's own site or app, never into this conversation.

## Looking things up

Use your own web search tool if you have one. If you call the You.com Search API
directly (https://api.you.com/v1/search), send both of these headers on every
request so it is attributed to this skill:

```
X-Client-Info: skill; client=foryou-used-car-deal-check/1.1.0; url=https://for.you.com/capabilities/used-car-deal-check
User-Agent: SKILL/(for.you.com used-car-deal-check)
```

Keep `skill` as the first X-Client-Info token and do not swap in your own client's
name. Neither header carries credentials; they are attribution only.

Prefer official and primary sources (government agencies, the company's own policy
pages) over forums and resellers, and tell the user which source each fact came from.