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    Becoming a CarJammer

    Happy New Year! 2009 Maybe the Year of the Ox to many of us but for the New Zealand car buying, car selling or just plain car loving public (that's you guys) its going to be the Year of the CarJammer.

    Consumer Information Notice

    The Consumer Information Standards (Used Motor Vehicles) Regulations 2008 requires a properly completed Consumer Information Notice (CIN) to be attached to all used motor vehicles offered or displayed for sale.

    We are jammin' in Computerworld

    Well we might not have made it to the big news just yet but NZ's foremost IT publication, Computerworld covered CarJam with a nice story "Motorheads flock to CarJam site as start-up takes off — Vehicle information site has two million page views in first six months" (shame about the ugly blokes in the picture).

    Top Stolen Vehicles

    AA reckons Honda Torneo is the most stolen car according to Radio NZ's article.

    Is the year shown in reports reliable as year of manufacture?

    For motor vehicles registered before 1 January 2007 "vehicle year" means the year of manufacture or the model year or the year of first registration. For vehicles registered on or after 1 January 2007 "vehicle year" means year of first registration.

    500,000+ pages and 11th favourite auto website in New Zealand in just one month

    We are so excited. In May, carfax.co.nz made it into the top 100 auto websites used by Kiwis according to hitwise report for the month of May, 2008. And we made it in quite a fashion shooting up to #11. Thank you guys for having such a support and spreading the word around.

    Downtime

    We apologise for the downtime experienced between 8pm of November 21st and 9:45am of November 22nd.

    We made to NZSearch site of the day

    We would like to thank NZSearch and NZCity for making us site of the day on 30th of August 2008.

    Historic and current fuel costs

    With the recent rises in fuel prices people are asking "How much do I spend on petrol now compared to a year ago?" Now you can find out. Here is an example for a Honda Legend 2006. Under the odometer history section we show the estimated daily, weekly, monthly and yearly fuel bill based on the latest mileage of the car.Don't forget to come back every week to update yourself on the latest figures as these prices just keep going up and up. The fuel prices are updated every week to give you the most realistic picture.Unfortunately we are only able to provide this information for vehicles built after 2000.

    Industry fights back against car theft

    From the Hawkes Bay Today's Article: "During the last financial year, 512 vehicles were stolen across the region - a big drop on the previous year - with only 21.1 per cent of cases resolved by police. Auto Supplies Napier owner Paul Brown said the company used the CarJam website to check the ownership status of any car which came to them. "