Can someone please run a carfax for me?

THANKS IN ADVANCE! The VIN is 2C1MR5291S6791081.

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The Radney's
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Ignoring his agents wishes,The Radney's flung open the hotel room door and announced to the gathering crowd:

why? Can't you do it yourself? AFAIK, a Carfax report isn't free.

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wideglide01diespammers

Some people pay for the big Carfax reports that will allow you to run multiple cars instead of paying for each one you runn... He's just hoping that someone will give him a freebee...

BTW I dont have carfax so Good luck.

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Joe Biadasz

flung

In the past, people that frequent this NG have been kind enough, while they have an active subscription, to run VIN's for others.

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Napalm Heart

Ignoring his agents wishes,"Napalm Heart" flung open the hotel room door and announced to the gathering crowd:

wow. That's really nice of them. Guess I would too. If someone *is* doing this, in all seriousness, could they ping me off-list? I have a VIN that needs to be run...actually two...it involves the recent problems I've had with my (now traded in) 2000 LS2.

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Brigitte J.

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Brigitte J.

Would anyone really trust carfax? I know of problems on one of my cars that would never show up on it. It is only as good as the data that is put into it. Paul

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Paul Dougherty

...it's good if you're concerned about possibly getting a car with a scrap title that isn't being disclosed. If Blue is reading he may have some other info - there's a way around the disclosure (I think if the car and bought and sold in different states... I can't remember the detail)...

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Jonnie Santos

With your carfax subscription you get a $5,000 guarantee that their info is accurate.

All 3 cars I've purchased using the carfax reports to rule out problem vehicles were, as far as I could tell, accurate.

Have you ever ran a carfax report on your vehicle? For each report run, there is a place where they ask, "Do you have any information on this vehicle?". I'm not sure what they do with the information someone would post there, but surely it could be easily abused.

Brigitte

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Brigitte J.

It was nice of you to look that up, Brigitte :) Now the Radney's will know they should take their discussion to alt.geo.ex-rental

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c0smic

Great, in theory. What about accidents that haven't been reported? Case in point, my 94 SL2 that I bought from a local Police Chief (now you would think that a cop would be an honesty guy, lol) I should have been leary about how adamant he was about showing me his Carfax report showing that the car had never been in any accidents. As far as I could tell that day, the car looked in near perfect condition.

Later that week, I had noticed that the front air dam was missing. Closer inspection and some headlight dissasembly revealed that the front end had indeed been in an accident and repainted, which my Saturn mechanic also noted upon replacement of the missing air dam.Althought the damage was not structural, only cosmetic, if one looks closely, my hood and headlights are misaligned as a result of an obvious minor accident.

So much for Carfax knowing everything and so much for policemen and thier wives being honest. Carfax is a good idea nonetheless, it will show any "reported" accidents. Your absolute best bet is to ask the owner to allow you to have the car physically inspected by a qualified mechanic before you purchase it. Any reason that the owner declines this should give you reasonable doubt, and that was MY mistake.

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mjh404

That is what I was pointing out. My Blazer has a (new) Engine that has half the mileage of the car and (new)transmission that as a 1/4 of the mileage. It does not show up on car fax. But, I do have the paper work that proves it.

Paul

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Paul Dougherty

Note that in many states there is no requirement to report damage an accident to the police unless the accident is on public roads AND it involves personal injury or damage over some significant limit ($500 or so).

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Dan Hicks

Nor do many states require police chiefs to be honest, lol.

-- marx404

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mjh404

It was nice of you to look that up, Brigitte :) Now the Radney's will know they should take their discussion to alt.geo.ex-rental

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c0smic

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