Australia's vehicle auction intelligence platform.

What we do

Australian vehicle auctions sell tens of thousands of cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, caravans, trailers, earthmoving equipment and industrial machinery every week. Pricing data, written-off vehicle (WOVR) records, structural damage notes, odometer history and photographs of those auctions are scattered across five separate websites with five different search interfaces, five different login flows and five different ways of describing the same vehicle. Auction Intel pulls all of it into one consistent database and exposes it as a fast, searchable, privacy-respecting consumer product.

Concretely, the platform offers:

• ·VIN history reports — every appearance of a 17-character Vehicle Identification Number across Pickles, Manheim, IAAI, Grays and Slattery, with hammer prices, WOVR status, damage descriptions and odometer readings at each appearance.
• ·Listing reports — paste any auction URL and get the full vehicle profile (year, make, model, VIN, photos, damage, WOVR, location, sale timing, current bid) plus comparable past sales to anchor the price.
• ·Deal radar — every active listing scored against same-bucket comp medians (salvage vs salvage, clean vs clean) to surface listings priced below market for their make / model / year.
• ·Live monitor — active auction sessions and lots closing in the next six hours, refreshed in real time.
• ·Saved-vehicle watchlist — track upcoming sales, bid movements and sold prices for any vehicle on your radar without keeping five browser tabs open.
• ·Side-by-side compare — up to three listings on one page with photos, damage, WOVR status and price guides aligned column by column.

Sources we cover

We aggregate data from the five major Australian vehicle auction operators. Each source publishes data through its own public website and API; Auction Intel reads those public surfaces and normalises the fields into a consistent schema so a Pickles Salvage Cherokee and a Manheim Damaged Cherokee can be compared without manual translation.

Why VIN history matters in Australia

The Written-Off Vehicle Register (WOVR) is administered state-by-state across Australia and stitched into a national register. A vehicle written off in New South Wales should follow the VIN even after it's repaired, repossessed, exported or shipped to another state — but in practice, records sometimes lag, get overwritten, or fail to transfer cleanly when a vehicle is registered in a new state. A vehicle that's been cycled through three states to launder a write-off may show "clean" at the latest registration while its actual history sits in an auction record from two years ago.

WOVR status is split into four practical categories:

• ·WOVR N/A (no record) — best case. No write-off appears on the register; the vehicle reached the auction channel for a non-damage reason (fleet rotation, lease return, repossession, government surplus, deceased estate, theft recovery).
• ·Inspection-Passed Repairable Write-Off — a vehicle declared repairable that has already passed the state's Written-Off Vehicle Inspection (Victorian VIV, Queensland WOVI, etc.) and is re-registration-ready.
• ·Repairable Write-Off — declared repairable but not yet inspected. Eligible to be repaired and re-registered, but the buyer wears the inspection risk and the repair cost.
• ·Statutory Write-Off — damage exceeds the threshold for re-registration. Parts car only, or export (Dubai, Pacific islands, parts buyers). Cannot be re-registered for road use in Australia.

Auction Intel preserves the WOVR label at every appearance of a VIN so the original auction declaration can be cross-checked against any later resale. We index roughly two years of history at any given time and continue accumulating with every daily scrape.

Who we are not

Auction Intel is not affiliated with Pickles, Manheim, IAAI, Grays or Slattery. We do not buy or sell vehicles. We do not act as an agent or broker. We do not bid on your behalf, broker finance, arrange transport or take commissions on sales. We provide information — the buying decisions, registrations, inspections, finance, transport and ongoing ownership obligations remain entirely your responsibility. We are not a vehicle title registry; for clean-title verification you should obtain a Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) certificate directly from the Australian Financial Security Authority.

Who it's for

Auction Intel is built for anyone who participates in the Australian auction-sourced vehicle market:

• ·Private buyers — wanting to know whether the cheap Cherokee on Pickles really is a deal, or whether the "no WOVR" claim on a Facebook re-sale holds up against the public record.
• ·Used-car dealers and wholesalers — sourcing trade-stock at scale, needing fast price-comp data across salvage and clean-title channels in the same query.
• ·Panel shops and repairers — evaluating repairable write-offs as buy-fix-resell or parts-stripping projects.
• ·Fleet managers and lessors — benchmarking residual values and disposal timing against actual auction outcomes.
• ·Parts wreckers and Dubai exporters — finding statutory write-offs in their make/model specialty before the rest of the market notices.
• ·Mechanics and inspectors — running pre-purchase checks on a VIN before the customer commits to a private sale.
• ·Finance brokers and insurers — validating quotation data points against the actual auction record.

How we make money

The free tier — search, VIN look-ups, the deal radar, the live monitor and a personal watchlist — is rate-limited per hour but otherwise unrestricted. Paid plans (in design at the time of writing) add higher quotas, bulk export, API access and saved deal-alert filters. We do not take referral commissions from the auction houses, we do not sell user data, and we do not run third-party advertising or behavioural tracking.

Australian and independent

Auction Intel is built in Australia for the Australian auction market. We are not affiliated with any auction house, vendor, dealer or referral network, and no third party has editorial control over what the platform shows you.