Car fax joke Reply #1 – March 26, 2013, 05:01:08 PM I ran a car fax on my own car. It showed a red flag because it had seen a body shop. It did see a body shop for quotes on hail damage. I had taken it there for the quote. No work was performed. Car fax will show any visits to a body shop, but will not explain what the visit was for. And of course, If you done body work yourself it will never show up on a car fax. Quote Selected
Car fax joke Reply #2 – March 26, 2013, 05:45:22 PM Back in the old days, even the dealership would give you the time to check it out. I'm not sure if they still do that now or not. I bought my Cougar from a friend and he documented just about everything, probably because it was his wife's car. Quote Selected
Car fax joke Reply #3 – March 26, 2013, 09:25:34 PM Yeah that's what I was more or less saying if you or the previous owner did the work themselves car fax is useless Quote Selected
Car fax joke Reply #4 – March 26, 2013, 09:50:49 PM Carfax reports all the wrecks that the car has been in, that where reported to the police or insurance company, and the exact date of the wreck. It also reports flood damage. Those are the 2 most important things to me when buying a car. As I will never buy anything that has been wrecked before. I almost dropped $15k on a car once that had been flood damaged. Looking at the car you would never know, as the guys who owned it had given it a really nice soft-resto, and you would have had to really tear into the car before you would have seen the actual flood damage to the interior, which was mainly inside the dash, as everything else had been replaced. It certainly isn't the be-all/end-all of used car buying info, but it does help, and it hasn't let me down yet. Quote Selected
Car fax joke Reply #5 – March 26, 2013, 11:35:41 PM My old 87 bird showed a wreck but I couldn't find anything that stood out. After i wrecked it, it did not show up. And police and insurance companies were involved on that one. Quote Selected
Car fax joke Reply #6 – March 27, 2013, 01:00:18 AM I'm sure some things slip through the cracks, but that's to be expected from such a large database. Like I said, it hasn't let me down yet the 15 or so times I have used it (I flip used cars occasionally). For finding undocumented bodywork, there are no better tools than my Cynic's Eye, and the Electronic Body Filler Detector. It has even found body filler in places on cars that I would have never suspected at the time by just looking at the panel. Sellers have a hard time when lying to me, and I'm not afraid to call them out on it once I see through the BS. Quote Selected
Car fax joke Reply #7 – March 27, 2013, 03:36:26 PM Like I said on another post, I knew a kid that had a fairly new Jeep that had major rust on the frame and he covered it up, painted it and sold it to some poor guy. I never heard anything about it after that (if he got sued). As bad as that frame was, he should have been thrown in jail for endangerment. Quote Selected
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