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"Elle" > wrote in message ... > Is there anyone with either carfax.com or autocheck.com service right > now that could run one check for me? Please email me. I will pass your > favor along to someone else somehow. Thank you. Up here in Canada, we have a show called Marketplace. They did a story on Carfax and showed how inadequate it is. I concur with the other posters that suggest a physical inspection is the only way to go. |
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:27:07 -0500, Iowna Uass > wrote:
>"Elle" > wrote in message ... >> Is there anyone with either carfax.com or autocheck.com service right >> now that could run one check for me? Please email me. I will pass your >> favor along to someone else somehow. Thank you. >Up here in Canada, we have a show called Marketplace. >They did a story on Carfax and showed how inadequate it is. >I concur with the other posters that suggest a physical inspection is the >only way to go. Both are the way to go. Learning wether a car was used as a rental car or totaled in an accident can be invaluable information. |
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On 09/25/2009 07:46 AM, AZ Nomad wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:27:07 -0500, Iowna > wrote: > >> > wrote in message >> ... >>> Is there anyone with either carfax.com or autocheck.com service right >>> now that could run one check for me? Please email me. I will pass your >>> favor along to someone else somehow. Thank you. > >> Up here in Canada, we have a show called Marketplace. >> They did a story on Carfax and showed how inadequate it is. > >> I concur with the other posters that suggest a physical inspection is the >> only way to go. > > Both are the way to go. Learning wether a car was used as a rental > car or totaled in an accident can be invaluable information. nope. rental cars can be abused, or they can be well maintained. "totaled" can be physically utterly trivial depending on what the insurance company deemed value to be at the time. relying on anything other than physical inspection is an exercise in self-deception and gullibility to advertising.. |
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:11:54 -0700, jim beam > wrote:
>On 09/25/2009 07:46 AM, AZ Nomad wrote: >> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:27:07 -0500, Iowna > wrote: >> >>> > wrote in message >>> ... >>>> Is there anyone with either carfax.com or autocheck.com service right >>>> now that could run one check for me? Please email me. I will pass your >>>> favor along to someone else somehow. Thank you. >> >>> Up here in Canada, we have a show called Marketplace. >>> They did a story on Carfax and showed how inadequate it is. >> >>> I concur with the other posters that suggest a physical inspection is the >>> only way to go. >> >> Both are the way to go. Learning wether a car was used as a rental >> car or totaled in an accident can be invaluable information. >nope. rental cars can be abused, or they can be well maintained. >"totaled" can be physically utterly trivial depending on what the >insurance company deemed value to be at the time. relying on anything >other than physical inspection is an exercise in self-deception and >gullibility to advertising.. It is still useful information. Would you want a car that passed inspection with a glowing report that had been totaled previously? I do both. |
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AZ Nomad > wrote:
> Both are the way to go. *Learning wether a car was used as a rental > car or totaled in an accident can be invaluable information. I agree with robb, Leftie and you. To share experience for the archives, about a year ago when I was looking at Craig's List cars, the Carfax report showed that about one-third had had odometer tampering. Many also had a salvage title. This information was not being disclosed by the sellers. Also, a salvage title is important not because it is a clue to look for damage, a non-straight frame, etc. A salvage title is important because it means the car will not be fully insurable for damage to it in the future, regardless of the extent of repairs to the car in the past, because some insurance company somewhere has already paid out on the car for its full value. |
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"Leftie" > wrote in message ... > Elle wrote: > > AZ Nomad > wrote: > Just to counterpoint a bit, a friend just backed out of buying a > 2002 Camry with very low mileage, because Carfax showed an 'odometer > discrepancy'. It appears now that there was none. Most likely an > inspection station wrote down the wrong number. So heck, you really > can't even trust them 100% when they appear to find a problem... > I thought the only thing you can trust %100 are ... death and taxes ? |
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Elle wrote:
> AZ Nomad > wrote: >> Both are the way to go. Learning wether a car was used as a rental >> car or totaled in an accident can be invaluable information. > > I agree with robb, Leftie and you. To share experience for the > archives, about a year ago when I was looking at Craig's List cars, > the Carfax report showed that about one-third had had odometer > tampering. Many also had a salvage title. This information was not > being disclosed by the sellers. Also, a salvage title is important not > because it is a clue to look for damage, a non-straight frame, etc. A > salvage title is important because it means the car will not be fully > insurable for damage to it in the future, regardless of the extent of > repairs to the car in the past, because some insurance company > somewhere has already paid out on the car for its full value. Just to counterpoint a bit, a friend just backed out of buying a 2002 Camry with very low mileage, because Carfax showed an 'odometer discrepancy'. It appears now that there was none. Most likely an inspection station wrote down the wrong number. So heck, you really can't even trust them 100% when they appear to find a problem... |
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On 09/25/2009 05:13 PM, AZ Nomad wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:11:54 -0700, jim > wrote: >> On 09/25/2009 07:46 AM, AZ Nomad wrote: >>> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:27:07 -0500, Iowna > wrote: >>> >>>> > wrote in message >>>> ... >>>>> Is there anyone with either carfax.com or autocheck.com service right >>>>> now that could run one check for me? Please email me. I will pass your >>>>> favor along to someone else somehow. Thank you. >>> >>>> Up here in Canada, we have a show called Marketplace. >>>> They did a story on Carfax and showed how inadequate it is. >>> >>>> I concur with the other posters that suggest a physical inspection is the >>>> only way to go. >>> >>> Both are the way to go. Learning wether a car was used as a rental >>> car or totaled in an accident can be invaluable information. > >> nope. rental cars can be abused, or they can be well maintained. >> "totaled" can be physically utterly trivial depending on what the >> insurance company deemed value to be at the time. relying on anything >> other than physical inspection is an exercise in self-deception and >> gullibility to advertising.. > > It is still useful information. Would you want a car that passed > inspection with a glowing report that had been totaled previously? unless your carfax report states the nature of the damage, you have no idea what "totaled" means other than that the insurance company considered it "uneconomic to repair". it doesn't mean squat in terms of structural integrity. oh, and vehicles are are repaired, but don't have any record on carfax, can be chop-shop repairs - i.e. uber dangerous. > > I do both. you should only spend you money on the one that matters - physical inspection. friend had their teenage daughter joyride their new lexus over an embankment. the vehicle was inspected, repaired, and given a clean bill of health. but it didn't drive right. after getting the brush off from the insurance company several times, he submitted a report from an independent inspector revealing the problem - irrepairably bucked subframe. insurance company wrote off the vehicle and paid for a new one. without that insistent and pedantic owner, inspection and subsequent write-off, there would have been no carfax, and you could have been driving that vehicle right now. |
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