Reading your vehicle report
Your Autoentic report arrives by email with a link to your record online. This page walks through what each section tells you and how to find your record again later — even if you lose the email.
The summary line — three things to read first
Every report opens with a single summary line. It looks like this:
Your vehicle is Autoentic Inspected — confidence 87 of 100.
Three pieces of information live in that line:
- The vehicle-level tier — either Autoentic Inspected or Autoentic Certified. Inspected means every panel in your scope was measured. Certified is the stricter tier — see What is Autoentic certification? for what each tier means and how the per-panel grades roll up.
- The overall confidence score — a number from 0 to 100. Higher is better.
- The vehicle identifier — year, make, model, and VIN. Worth a glance to confirm the right car was inspected.
The score is a confidence measure, not a percentage
A score of 87 doesn't mean "87 % factory original." It means we're highly confident the paint is factory, after accounting for natural measurement variation.
The per-panel breakdown
Below the summary, every measured body panel is listed with its own confidence score and grade. Each row shows:
- The panel name in plain English — hood, roof, front-left fender, right rear quarter panel, and so on.
- The per-panel confidence score — 0 to 100, same scale as the overall number.
- The grade label — one of Factory Original, Factory Acceptable, Refinished, or Extensively Repaired. The glossary has short definitions for each; the consumer explainer covers what the grades mean for your vehicle.
The score on each panel reflects three sources of measurement uncertainty: how consistent your readings were, how well the instrument was calibrated, and how much natural variation the factory itself produces when it applies paint. Autoentic combines the three into the single number you see. No math is shown in the report — you just read the number.
Use a low-scoring panel as a conversation starter
If your vehicle is Autoentic Inspected overall but one panel scores noticeably lower than the rest, that's the panel to ask the seller about. The report doesn't accuse anyone — it points.
How to find your record later
Every Autoentic record is tied to the VIN. You can always find yours using the VIN alone — the record transfers with the vehicle, not with the owner.
If you have a booking in progress or recently completed and you've lost the email, you can look it up by entering your email and reference code at autoentic.com/book/status. A reference code looks like AUT-DEMO-XXXX — short, easy to type, unique to your booking.
If you've lost both the email and the reference code, contact the shop that performed your inspection. Shops can look you up by email on their partner dashboard — see Walk-in redemption for the shop-side flow.
What the record proves
Your record is cryptographically signed. Nobody — not you, not the shop, not Autoentic — can change the readings after the fact without the tampering being immediately detectable.
Your record is tied to the VIN. When you sell the vehicle, the record goes with it. A buyer, appraiser, or dealer can verify the record using only the VIN; no Autoentic account is needed on their end.
Every measurement becomes a permanent entry in your vehicle's Paint Passport — the set of all Autoentic records attached to that VIN over time. Viewable by anyone with the VIN, transferable by default.