We bought a used car last year and though it seemed fine (and really is) I
decided to spend the $$ on CarFax anyway. Since it was a couple of bucks
more to get unlimited reports for a month, I took that option.
According to CarFax, our old Suburban has never had an accident, even though
it rammed other cars a couple of times thanks to the antilock brakes, and
then it got t-boned while driving down the street. All were reported, all
required insurance claims, and not one showed up in the report. And though
it'd been to a GM dealer within the past couple of years, it was reported as
having about 80,000 miles, which is what it had when we bought it in 1997 -
it has 245,000 now.
Maybe the Suburban is in the 0.2% with hidden history too.
Karl
>> http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2009/vehicle_history_reports/main.html
>>
>> interesting report
>
> Nothing too surprising, though. CarFax claims to be "most complete",
> which
> means only they have more data points than their competition does. It
> does
> NOT say they have all the relevant information about any particular car.
>
> And the news report conveniently leaves out facts like how many thousands
> of
> cars they had to search, to find 10 of them that had problems not logged
> in
> CarFax. Of course, "0.2% of cars have a hidden history" doesn't make as
> good a headline!
>
> Randall
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