question - may have made a major boo boo... Was, now fishy cars

[Huw Powell]

> there has been a lot of skepticism about  carfax on this list. i KNOW
> bad things have happened to my car, but carfax comes up clean. maybe
> they werent reported, but thats unlikely.

Mine, too.  I suspect that at the very least, carfax is going to be weak 
on things that happened more than a few years ago, due to issues with 
reporting "the past" versus gathering fresh data (from insurance 
companies and states?).

Not to say that they would necessarily be reliable on a 4 year old car, 
but to expect that on a 15 year old car would be pushing one's luck.

>>Finally, someone recognizes that Carfax is not the be all to end all.  BTW,
>>the thousands of flooded cars from the Gulf region ought to be reaching the
>>other parts of the country and there ought to be some real bargains out
>>there :-).

Their ads have been playing heavily on that theme from what I've seen.

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Huw Powell

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