Buying a used car shouldn’t be a gamble
KickTyres helps used-car buyers across New Zealand see what they’re actually buying — before they pay. We turn years of documented, model-specific knowledge into a simple inspection any buyer can follow standing next to the car.
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Our inspection methodology
The output a buyer trusts with thousands of dollars has to be right or loudly wrong — never a confident guess. So KickTyres follows a strict authority hierarchy: facts come from the record, and the AI helps you look, it doesn’t invent.
The car's facts first
Curated, verified fault knowledge
AI assists the human
You make the call
Honest by design
We tell you what we don’t know as clearly as what we do. A score built from no data reads as unknown, not as a flattering pass. That discipline is the whole point — a silently wrong “great deal” is the failure that costs a buyer money, and it’s the one we build hardest against.
The story behind it
Built by someone who got burned
KickTyres was founded by Nick Mason after his dream car — a Volkswagen Golf R — turned into more than $12,000 of repair bills within months of buying it. Read what happened and why it became this tool.
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