Questions, answered plainly

₹6,000 for a full pre-purchase condition report inside the Hyderabad corridor, ₹8,000 beyond 100 km, and ₹4,000 per machine for a fleet audit of five or more at one site. All prices are exclusive of GST.

On a ₹25 lakh machine, ₹6,000 is a quarter of one percent of what you are about to spend.

It is a quarter of one percent of what you are about to spend, and the report is what you negotiate with. Buyers routinely take more off the price using the deferred-cost figure than the inspection cost them.

If the fee is genuinely the obstacle, take the free grade band instead. It costs nothing and it is honest work.

Because it is the reason you can trust the grade. We are not waiting on your purchase to get paid, so we have no financial reason to tell you the machine is sound. A desk that gets paid on completion has one.

No. A discount now would set the price permanently, and a price that moves tells you the number was never real in the first place. The free grade band exists precisely so that there is something honest to offer instead.

Not on a machine we are inspecting for you. If we ever had an interest on the other side, we would tell you in writing before the inspection rather than after — it is written into the engagement terms.

The report states exactly what was checked and what could not be checked without dismantling. We do not certify anything and we do not predict the future. Where we cannot tell, the report says we cannot tell.

That last part is what most reports leave out, and it is the part that matters when something surfaces later.

He may well be right. If he is, the report says so in writing and you buy with confidence instead of hope — which is worth ₹6,000 on its own.

No. We take no title and hold no inventory, ever. The moment we own machines, every grade we write becomes suspect — including the ones on other people's machines.

No. If we did that for one seller, the next buyer would have no reason to believe anything we write — including about that seller's next machine. This is the end of the conversation rather than the start of a negotiation.

Bring him — he will see things we do not. The difference is that you will have it in writing, with measurements and photographs, which is what actually moves a price. A verbal opinion does not.

We have not seen the machine, so we would be guessing and you would be acting on a guess. What we will do on the phone, gladly, is tell you exactly what we would check and why — so you know what the fee buys.

A pre-warmed engine conceals hard starting, start smoke, crankcase blowby and injector behaviour, which is precisely why sellers warm them. If we arrive and the machine is warm, the report records that and states that start condition could not be assessed.

Two to three hours on site for a single excavator, and the report is with you within two days of the visit.

The owner's operator, never our inspector. It is his machine, his operator knows it, and it removes any argument about what happened while we were there.

Anything requiring dismantling — internal engine condition beyond what blowby and oil tell us, pump internals, the inside of a final drive. The report lists its own limits explicitly, on the report itself.

Crawler excavators in the 13–22 tonne class and backhoe loaders today. Road equipment, concrete plant, cranes and crushing open as inspectors for those categories join the bench.

A hydraulic excavator mechanic cannot competently grade a mobile crane. A category opens the week its inspector is found, and not one day earlier.

No, and we do not intend to. It is a different trade with its own established networks, and we would be worse at it than the people already doing it.

Beyond 100 km the fee is ₹8,000 to cover travel. Well outside the corridor, ask — the honest answer is sometimes that we do not have an inspector who can competently grade that machine in that place, and we will say so rather than send someone who cannot.

No. We state condition and cost, in measurements, and the decision stays yours. Anyone who tells you a machine is a good buy is either guessing or has a reason to want the deal done.