Used Car Pre-Purchase Inspection Sheet
Carry out the same inspection on every car you view, so a decision made in somebody's driveway is based on what you saw rather than what you remember.
VB-01 2 pages
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Vehicle buying and selling
Sheets for the hour you spend standing in front of a car you are thinking of buying, and for comparing it afterwards with the others you saw.
Buying a used vehicle privately is a memory test carried out under mild social pressure, in somebody else's driveway, usually in the rain. These sheets take the checks out of your head and put them on paper, so the car you choose is the one that came out best rather than the one you saw last.
Sheets in Vehicle buying and selling
Vehicle Viewing Comparison Sheet
Compare the cars you have seen on what you wrote at the kerb rather than on what you can still remember a week later.
VB-02 1 page
Vehicle Sale and Handover Record
Leave both sides holding the same written account of a private sale, including the odometer reading and exactly what changed hands.
VB-03 1 page
Vehicle Advert Details Worksheet
Answer every question a buyer asks once, on paper, instead of going back out to the car each time the phone rings.
VB-04 2 pages
Part Exchange and Valuation Comparison
Tell the highest offer and the best offer apart by writing down what each one actually includes, not just the number quoted.
VB-05 1 page
Test Drive Checklist
Come back from a test drive with notes on what you heard and where, instead of a general feeling that it seemed fine.
VB-06 2 pages
Vehicle History and Paperwork Check Record
Keep a dated account of which documents you actually saw and what each one said, rather than a memory of being shown a folder.
VB-07 2 pages
Motorcycle Pre-Purchase Inspection Sheet
Walk round a used bike in an order that catches crash damage, chain and sprocket wear and weeping fork seals before the money moves.
VB-08 2 pages
Caravan and Motorhome Pre-Purchase Check
Look at the habitation side of a caravan or motorhome in the same order every time, and leave with the damp readings written down rather than a feeling that it seemed dry.
VB-09 2 pages
Classic and Project Car Buying Checklist
Compare a car in boxes with one that runs on the same footing, by writing down what is there, what is not, and what each gap will cost you to close.
VB-10 2 pages
Import and Registration Document Checklist
Keep track of a stack of paperwork moving between customs, test stations and the registration office, so a missing original is found before the appointment rather than at it.
VB-11 2 pages
Trade-In Appraisal Sheet
Give every part-exchange the same walk-round and leave a record on file that shows how the offer was arrived at, whoever did the appraisal.
VB-12 2 pages
Van and Commercial Pre-Purchase Inspection
Inspect a working vehicle for the wear a working life leaves, in the places a car checklist never looks, and leave with the plated weights written down.
VB-13 2 pages
Vehicle Collection and Drive-Home Checklist
Turn the excited, slightly rushed hour of collecting a vehicle into a list, so the second key, the locking wheel nut and the cover start time are all dealt with before you drive off.
VB-14 2 pages
Used Electric Car Battery and Charging Check
Judge a used electric car's battery on evidence you saw, not on what the seller says. The warranty wording and the range test go on the same page.
VB-15 1 page
Car Personal Data Wipe Checklist
Hand the car over without your phone, your addresses or your apps still linked to it. A factory reset alone can leave some of them behind.
VB-16 1 page
Lease Car Return Condition Check
Find the marks a collection inspection will find while there is time to act on each one. Every mark is measured against your own lessor's guide.
VB-17 2 pages
Vehicle Fault and Repair Attempt Log
Show how often a fault came back and how long the car was off the road, from the paperwork. A pile of repair orders becomes one dated record.
VB-18 2 pages
Private Car Sale Enquiry and Viewing Log
Keep track of every buyer for a car you are selling yourself, and spot the scams early. The handover checks on page two make sure the money has really cleared before the keys go.
VB-19 2 pages
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Home systems
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Safety checks
Alarm tests, extinguisher checks and the records that prove they happened.
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23 sheets
Vehicles
Cars, motorcycles, motorhomes, trailers and boats — service history, schedules and pre-use inspections.
23 sheets
Water and pools
Pools, hot tubs and private water supplies — chemistry logs and test records.
14 sheets
Rental property
Maintenance logs, periodic inspections and changeover checklists for let property.
17 sheets
Pets and animals
Vaccination and health records, sitter instructions and the emergency details somebody else would need if you were not there.
33 sheets
Trailers and marine
Trailers, horseboxes, caravans and boats — annual service records, pre-use inspections and the towing figures you should never be guessing at.
27 sheets
Workshop and tools
Inventories, service logs and the working paperwork a small workshop, a trade or a van actually runs on.
32 sheets
Cleaning and routines
Cleaning schedules, rotas, deep-clean checklists and the dated records a cleaning routine is supposed to leave behind.
10 sheets
Moving and buying
The paperwork of changing address — moving, viewing, snagging, renovating and switching the supplies over.
12 sheets
Garden and growing
Sowing plans, plot layouts, greenhouse logs, compost records and fruit tree histories — blank wherever the answer depends on where you garden.
37 sheets
Exotic and small pets
Husbandry records for reptiles, amphibians, fish, small mammals and birds — the readings, feeds and weights that keep an animal well.
26 sheets
Trade job forms
The sheet that goes out in the van: what was quoted, what was fitted, what it took and what the customer signed.
40 sheets
Garage and vehicle workshop
Job cards, parts, road tests and the paperwork that follows a car through a workshop from booking in to handing back.
42 sheets
Professional drivers
Shifts, runs, checks and hours — for the people whose office is a vehicle.
38 sheets
Warehouse and logistics
Goods in, picked, packed, counted and despatched — the paper trail down the aisle.
25 sheets
Hotels and guest accommodation
Rooms turned round, guests arrived, faults reported and the shift handed over.
25 sheets
Restaurants and bars
Prep done, tables planned, lines cleaned, waste counted and the till cashed up.
28 sheets
Retail shop floor
The till, the stockroom, the shelf edge and the routines that open and close the door.
25 sheets
Food production and artisan makers
Batches made, yields counted and where every ingredient came from.
30 sheets
Caravan parks and campsites
Pitches let, hook-ups metered, blocks cleaned and the site walked.
20 sheets
Salon and studio
What was done to whom, with what, and what they said about it last time.
25 sheets
Music and performance
The gig booked, the stage plotted, the set played and the show reported.
34 sheets
Studio crafts and making
Firings, cuts, pours and settings — written down so the good one can be repeated.
35 sheets
Motorsport and track days
Setup, times, tyres and fuel — the numbers that make the next session faster.
20 sheets
Sports clubs by sport
Team sheets, scorebooks, training plans and the club admin behind a fixture.
30 sheets
Faith and community groups
Rotas filled, halls booked, collections counted and volunteers looked after.
25 sheets
IT and office systems
What kit exists, who has it, whether the backup ran and when the licence expires.
20 sheets
Self storage and removals
Units let, keys issued, payments tracked and loads moved.
15 sheets
Livestock and smallholding
Flock and herd records, medicine and movement books, and the application records that have to be produced when somebody asks.
71 sheets
Craft and making
Project planners, stash inventories and machine logs — for quilting, sewing, printing, modelling and selling what you make.
15 sheets
Photography and media
Shot lists, kit inventories and job records — for getting the shot, insuring the kit and finding out what the work actually pays.
10 sheets
Outdoor pursuits
Logbooks and trip plans for time spent outdoors — dives made, water paddled, rounds played.
33 sheets
Beekeeping
Inspection records for hives and colonies, built so this week's visit can be read against the last three.
21 sheets
Equine records
Due-date charts and care records for horses and ponies, with the intervals left blank for the ones your own farrier, vet and dentist give you.
33 sheets
Access and visitor control
Visitor sign-in pages and key registers — who is in the building, who let them in, and what has not come back.
14 sheets
Running costs and fleet
Per-fill fuel and cost records, kept unit-neutral so the same sheet works wherever you buy fuel and whatever your odometer reads in.
21 sheets
Incident and first aid records
Kit checks, expiry dates and restocking — dated on paper and signed by whoever actually did them.
10 sheets
Hobby and craft logbooks
Logbooks for the things people do for the love of it, built to hold hours, conditions and the incident nobody wants to reconstruct from memory.
10 sheets
Food preservation and pantry
What is on the shelf, how much of it you want there, and what needs reordering before the recipe stops.
10 sheets
Growing results and crops
What seed you actually have, whether it still germinates, and what the plot really produced.
20 sheets
Premises and facilities checks
The dated, initialled rounds that show a space was actually attended to rather than merely meant to be.
11 sheets
Fitness and training
Session logs and equipment records for training — what you did, and what your kit has done.
10 sheets
Collecting and valuables
Itemised records for collections and valuables — what you own, what it cost, and what can be evidenced about it.
11 sheets
Office and committee
The paperwork a committee, a small office or a one-person project runs on — minutes, agendas, actions, decisions, risks and issues.
13 sheets
Invoicing and money
The money paperwork a one-person business runs on — invoices, estimates, receipts, orders, price lists and the sheets that show what a job really cost.
24 sheets
Staff records
The records a small employer actually needs: hours, leave, rotas, reviews, training and the two checklists that make starting and leaving orderly.
15 sheets
Site and construction
Permits, method statements, diaries and inspection registers for building sites, yards and anywhere work is done under control.
15 sheets
Classroom and childcare
Blank sheets for a classroom, a tutor, a club or an evening's babysitting — registers, marks, seating, reading and trips.
14 sheets
Clubs and teams
The paperwork a sports club, a society or a village hall committee runs on — members, subs, kit, duties, scores and fixtures.
13 sheets
Blank and universal
Sheets with no subject at all — blank logs, blank checklists, tally sheets and report forms you head yourself.
12 sheets
Kitchen and catering
Records for a working kitchen — what a dish costs, what was made from which batch, what was checked, cleaned and thrown away.
30 sheets
Travel and trips
Two sheets for going somewhere: a packing list you write once and reuse, and a road trip planned day by day.
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