Appraise for Dealers is a used-car appraisal app started by a Calgary dealer. It turns a VIN into wholesale grades, retail comps from listings around Calgary and a max buy, scans the engine for codes cleared before the trade-in, and prices hail, gravel and salt damage from your own rates. Free Bluetooth OBD reader with your 14-day trial for the first 25 dealerships, in Calgary and across Canada.
Calgary trade-ins carry a particular mix of weather and work. These are the things a Calgary appraisal has to catch.
Calgary and the corridor north to Red Deer get some of the most frequent damaging hail in Canada, and major storms in 2020 and 2024 left thousands of vehicles dented. Check the roof, hood and trunk lid in raking light, ask about claims, and look for a salvage brand on written-off units.
Chinooks melt the snow several times a winter, so salty slush keeps re-wetting the underbody. Calgary cars rust like any salt-belt car: look at the frame rails, rockers and brake lines.
Road-salt checklistWinter gravel and fast traffic on Deerfoot Trail, Stoney Trail and Highway 2 chip hoods, bumpers and windshields. On newer vehicles, a windshield replacement also means recalibrating the driver-assist camera.
Pickups and 4x4 SUVs make up a big share of Calgary trades. Engage four-wheel drive on the test drive, and remember aluminum-body trucks cost more to dent-repair.
Lease and fleet trucks idle for hours on job sites. Where a truck reports total engine run time, compare hours with km, and look for upfit holes, strobe wiring and fleet-graphic shadows.
Minus-thirty mornings find weak batteries, cracked block heater cords and tired starters. The scan reads battery voltage, and Appraise flags anything under 12.2 V with the engine off.
Type or scan the VIN and enter the km. Appraise decodes the vehicle and prices it against Canadian dealer listings near your rooftop.
Values are estimates built from comparable listings. Each shows how many comps it used and a confidence label.
Alberta has no routine emissions test, so nothing at registration checks whether a check-engine light was cleared last week. Plug in a Bluetooth reader and Appraise reads what a quick clear leaves behind.
How to read it: spotting recently cleared codes.
Book a demo and start your trial. Free Bluetooth OBD reader with your 14-day trial for the first 25 dealerships, in Calgary and anywhere else in Canada. It works with iPhone and Android.
One reader per dealership, while the first 25 spots last. Open to dealerships anywhere in Canada. No card needed for the trial.
Appraise was started by a Calgary used-car dealer for the way local lots actually work, from franchise stores on the Macleod Trail corridor to independent lots across the city and dealers in Airdrie, Cochrane and Okotoks.
Use one tool, any two, or all three on the same VIN. Results stack on one car.
Yes. The first 25 dealerships that start a trial, in Calgary or anywhere else in Canada, get one Bluetooth Low Energy reader per dealership, free. Book a demo to claim yours; the trial itself needs no card.
No. The founding offer is open to dealerships anywhere in Canada: the first 25 to start a trial get one reader each. Ask when you book a demo.
Yes. When you book a demo you can choose an in-person visit, a video call or a phone call.
Local first. Appraise looks for comparable listings within your search range (300 km of your rooftop by default), then widens to Alberta and finally to Canada adjusted to Alberta, and labels the value when it has had to widen.
The photo inspection flags dents panel by panel with size and PDR eligibility, priced from your own PDR rates. For a heavily hailed car, use it to document the damage and get your PDR tech’s count before you commit.
Frame rails, rockers, cab corners, brake and fuel lines and subframes, plus how to grade rust and what cold does to batteries and 4x4s.
Read the guide OBD-IIReadiness monitors, distance and warm-ups since codes cleared, and permanent codes: what a quick reset leaves behind.
Read the guide PricingExpected retail − recon − pack − holding − gross. Each input explained, with a worked example on a pickup trade.
Read the guideTry it free for 14 days, no card needed. Or book a demo and we will run a real VIN with you.
