CarFax Accuracy? Garbage in, garbage out.

[edkellock at juno.com]

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Carfax is only as good as the information it receives.  Garbage in,
garbage out.

I run my own cars and my mom's Honda periodically when I have a
subscription for another reason and they all come back with accurate and
fairly thorough information, except for once.

I have owned my CGT for 12 years and moved it from CA to TX to IA to SC
and now to CO.  I paid it off while I lived in TX.  At some point a
couple of years later, it showed up as a repo in TX.  Somehow the report
of it's pay-off became a repo I guess.  I laughed and did nothing.  It
has since been cleared up.  TX must have rereported something I guess.

Anyway, I'm not thrilled with their subscription offerings, but when I'm
serious about an acquisition, I regard Carfax as one worthwhile source of
data to add to the mix.  It's never going to be perfect in every case.

Case in point:
I had a '91 Avant that I rolled and was totalled.  I kept the salvage and
sold it to a guy who repaired it.  Two and a half years later, he sold it
and it was totalled again last fall, this time for good.  I ran a report
on it last fall and it came up with no record of my wreck.  I'm curious
if the second was recorded.  Why wasn't mine?  Because a salvage title
was never issued.  I think the bank sent the title to the ins co which
sent it to me, if I remember correctly.  Either the ins co didn't do it's
job or the state that it was registered in didn't require a salvage
title.  Either way, Carfax knows nothing of it

Ed
Colorado Springs


On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:06:50 -0500 "Michael Guidotti"
<MAGUID at MAIN.DJJ.STATE.SC.US> writes:
> well my Audi was in 2 accidents and they never showed up on carfax,
> my VW never showed some of the previous owners of the car, a friends
> VW was totaled in an accident and it never showed up on carfax
> either. in my opinion its just about totally worthless.
>
> Mike
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