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How to find out if a car is on Turo

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+title: "How to find out if a specific car is listed on Turo"
+author: matt_popovich           # Reference author_id in _data/authors.yml
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+date: 2021-07-15 00:57:06 -0600
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+description: The quick and easy way to see if a vehicle is currently listed on Turo
+
+---
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+## Intro
+Good afternoon! Matt Popovich here for my first post discussing Turo things. I recently just hit 100 trips on Turo! 👏 Eventually I want to put up a video talking through my thoughts on Turo after my first 100 trips. But, for now, I want to talk about how to tell if a car a car is currently listed on Turo or not. Maybe you're looking at purchasing and you don't want to purchase a car that's been rented, or maybe your buddy just pulled up in a brand new lambo and you know he can't afford it and you're really hoping it's rented...
+
+Regardless of your motives, here's how:
+
+## [TL;DR](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/TL%3BDR)
+* Sign into your Turo host account
+* Try to [list a new vehicle](https://turo.com/us/en/list-your-car/list) by VIN
+* If it doesn't let you, you'll know that the vehicle is currently listed on Turo
+  * If it does let you list the vehicle, that just means that the vehicle isn't *currently* listed on Turo.
+  * It doesn't tell us anything about whether the vehicle used to be on Turo or not... Maybe the owner took the vehicle off of Turo, we don't really know.
+
+## How To
+For this to work, you'll need two things:
+1. A Turo (host) account
+2. The VIN number of the vehicle in question
+
+Once logged in, go to your [vehicles tab](https://turo.com/us/en/vehicles/listings), then try to [list a new vehicle](https://turo.com/us/en/list-your-car/list). Add in an address, then you'll notice we can't get any further without putting in a VIN number. So, let's get the VIN that we're interested in and input it. We have to fill out a few more fields (odometer, transmission, trim), then before you can advance to the next section, if the car is on Turo, you will get the following warning:
+
+![Prompt you get when a VIN is already listed on turo](/assets/img/posts/2021-07-15-how-to-find-out-if-a-specific-car-is-listed-on-turo/TuroAlreadyListedVIN.png){: width="400" .shadow}
+*The screen you see if a vehicle is currently listed on Turo*
+
+> We're sorry
+>
+> It looks like this VIN is already listed, but you're free to list a different car. Please contact support if you think there's been an error.
+
+That's good and all, but if this screen doesn't come up, that doesn't mean that this car *hasn't* been listed on Turo before. That just means that the vehicle isn't ***currently*** listed on Turo. Maybe the owner took the vehicle off of Turo, or maybe it hasn't been listed at all... we don't really know.
+
+But if you **do** get the above screen, you can be sure that the vehicle **is** currently listed on Turo, and you can make... whatever decisions you need to make from this information.
+
+## Outro
+
+![Tesla Model 3 that I was considering purchasing on Craigslist](/assets/img/posts/2021-07-15-how-to-find-out-if-a-specific-car-is-listed-on-turo/CraigslistModel3PurchaseEditedSmall.jpeg){: width="640"}
+*Tesla Model 3 that I was considering purchasing*
+
+There you have it, short and sweet. Funny enough, I found out about this little trick by looking into purchasing a Tesla Model 3 from a private party and I was doing some research on the car and I figured, *I'm already a Turo host, let me pull up Turo and see how this car's competition is looking in my market, what they're currently priced at, etc.*, and, lo and behold, with a little detective work, I end up finding the **exact vehicle** that I'm looking at buying listed on Turo!
+
+![The same car that I was thinking about purchasing - I found it on Turo!](/assets/img/posts/2021-07-15-how-to-find-out-if-a-specific-car-is-listed-on-turo/Model3FoundOnTuro.jpg){: width="640" .shadow}
+*I found the same car - listed on Turo!*
+
+Fast forward, I end up buying the car and when I got to try to add it to my account on Turo, it hits me with the *We're sorry. It looks like this VIN is already listed on Turo*. So, I can either contact Turo and I can show them the registration, title, bill of sale, etc. and they can put the car under my account, or, since I know who I bought it from, I can contact them and have them remove it from their account.
+
+But, that's how we got here. Thanks for reading. Hope this helps!
+
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