The CARFIX newspaper · Auckland, New Zealand
More than 10,000 cloud releases, 1,184 database upgrades and nearly 57,000 automated job runs a month. CARFIX is moving faster than ever, and the pace is still rising.
New Zealand's warrant of fitness rules changed on 1 November 2026. Many cars now go two years between inspections, and owners carry more of the care in between.
When a car's WoF is due and how far it really travels have sat on the official record for years. CARFIX has joined that record to every part it supplies, building a living history of your car, kept against your rego.
Links across CARFIX's car guides and product write-ups now lead to live pages, and a nightly check keeps them that way.
Nightlylink check across product write-ups
Brake pads matched to the last digit of their shape number, wheel bearings checked against drive type, and a lock that stops a ruled-out part creeping back.
CARFIX has re-checked one of its largest coil spring ranges line by line. Every spring in it now says whether it's a pair or a single, and is priced that way.
1,836spring listings re-checked line by line
Every CARFIX order now carries a single state built from one timeline of everything that has happened to it, and the supplier's own invoice is checked against the part ordered.
5 minbetween inbox sweeps
When the exact part isn't available, CARFIX can now line up a proven equivalent, but only if the customer has agreed, and never at extra cost to them.
2proven alternates at most per part
New Zealand runs one of the oldest car fleets in the developed world. CARFIX now keeps discontinued parts on sale for as long as genuine stock remains in the country.
15 yrsaverage age of NZ light passenger vehicles (2023)
More than 97,000 everyday products, from screen wash to tools, are now within Bob's reach alongside the parts for your car.
97,000+everyday products now in Bob's reach
Every message CARFIX sends a customer must now pass a single test before it goes: does it genuinely help?
1test every message must pass
Bob's answers to rego-and-part questions now arrive in about two seconds, and every release must pass a 162-point experience gate before going live.
~2.3 sto a rego-and-part answer, about twice as fast