Buying a used car? We inspect it at the seller's location so you know exactly what you're getting.
Where the used cars actually are in Etobicoke. The Queensway is the biggest dealer row in this half of the GTA, franchise and independent lots almost end to end from Kipling through Islington, with more clustered around Dundas West and Kipling and up by North Queen. Private sales sit in the old neighbourhoods and the new towers both: Mimico, New Toronto, Long Branch, Alderwood, Markland Wood, The Kingsway, Rexdale, and the Humber Bay Shores condos along the lake.
The condo-garage and permit-parking reality. Etobicoke has the hardest logistics in the zone. Humber Bay Shores and Islington-City Centre sales usually mean an underground P1 or P2 with low clearance, a fob you don't have, and visitor parking on a timer. On the Mimico and New Toronto side streets it's permit parking and no room to work. None of it stops the inspection, it's a measure-and-look job with the car on its own wheels, but it does change the plan: ask the seller to meet at street level or in visitor parking, and confirm the cold start hasn't already happened while they drove up from the garage.
Lakeshore salt is the Etobicoke story. Gardiner, 427 and QEW spray plus lake humidity is the worst rust combination in the region, and Etobicoke cars show it from underneath years before anything shows on the paint. Points 113 to 124 of the inspection exist for these cars: subframe seams, rocker pinch welds, brake and fuel lines, tank straps, and fresh black undercoating sprayed on right before a sale, which around here is the single most common thing used to hide a rotten underbody. Add Queensway and Lake Shore stop-and-go, which eats brakes and seizes rear calipers.
A pre-purchase inspection is the one job with a published flat price, no parts and no unknowns, so nothing about it needs a phone call first. Fill this in, pick a real window, and it’s held. Then you get a pre-written text for Fares and one for the seller.
This is the step most buyers skip, because they assume the answer is no. Framed properly it almost never is: about an hour where the car already sits, nothing taken apart, nothing removed, they keep the keys, and they get a copy of the report.
An inspection usually ends with two or three worn items, that’s normal on a used car and it’s the useful part. The published sample report ends with rear pads and rotors, a tired battery and a cracked serpentine belt. All three are driveway jobs.
So if the inspection turns up work you want done, and you buy the car and have Fares do that work in Etobicoke, the inspection fee comes off the repair. You pay for the inspection either way, you just don’t pay for it twice. Published ranges: brakes $200–$700 per axle · battery, alternator and starter $180–$1,100 installed · serpentine belt $150–$650 · suspension $350–$1,500 · cooling $250–$900. All from the same published rate card.
And before you even book: paste the listing into the free listing check for the documented weak points on that exact year, make and model, or read all 150 inspection points, numbered.
Already own the car, or you bought it already? Brakes, suspension, no-start, cooling, leaks, done in your Etobicoke driveway. Flat quote before anything gets touched.
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Every pre-purchase inspection job we do in Etobicoke is complete, not a band-aid. Here's what's covered:
Watch for these, catching it early saves money and prevents bigger damage:
Yes, that's the whole point of mobile. Fares goes to the seller's location anywhere in Etobicoke: a Mimico or Alderwood driveway, a Humber Bay Shores visitor spot, a Queensway lot. The seller stays with the car, nothing gets taken apart, nothing is removed, and they get a copy of the report too. There's a pre-written text above to send them, plus a page written for the seller you can just forward.
Yes. Mimico, New Toronto, Long Branch, Alderwood, Markland Wood, The Kingsway, Rexdale, Humber Bay Shores and the Queensway. Fares comes to the driveway, a visitor spot, a workplace lot, or a dealer lot, wherever the car is parked in Etobicoke. No tow, no drop-off.
Call or text 647-450-0406 if you'd rather talk, but you don't have to. Use the booking above: the windows that are actually open (two-hour slots between 9am and 7pm, Monday to Saturday, he only takes two jobs a day, so what you see is what's genuinely left), held the second you pick one, plus a pre-written text for the seller. A pre-purchase inspection has a published flat price, no parts and no unknowns, so it's the one job that doesn't need a phone call first.
$120–$250 flat. That’s the published price and it’s the whole price, no parts, no add-ons, no hourly rate. Three published packages, $149, $249 or $399, and you pick the depth; the price is confirmed in writing when you book. Full breakdown on the PPI cost page.
All 150 are published and numbered across 14 systems, so you can count them yourself before booking: identity and paperwork (8), scan tool and electronics (12), engine and under-hood (18), fluids (10), cooling (10), belts and charging (8), transmission and driveline (10), brakes (12), suspension and steering (14), tires and wheels (10), undercarriage and rust (12), exhaust and emissions (6), body and glass (10), interior and safety equipment (10). There’s a complete sample report too.
No, and that’s worth being clear about. This is a condition report written for the buyer, by someone working for the buyer. A Safety Standards Certificate is a separate document with its own rules, covering minimum safety requirements on the day it’s issued, it says nothing about engine health, how the transmission behaves warm, slow leaks, or how the car was treated.
Most of these get sorted in the same visit, one trip, one flat quote. These two or three come up alongside this job the most:
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