[s-cars] Was Vin check Link, Now Carfax article

[Harold McComas]

My experience on my old  '96 Cashmere car...
Nothing showed up on carfax when I ran it in  Sept, 2003 before buying it. 
Previous owner disclosed that he slid and hit the rear end into a lightpole: 
trunk, tail light and bumper damage. Saw the repair paperwork, didn't look 
too serious.

In my effort to help the  new buyer ( a Canadian) last year , I came upon 
www.carproof.com  ( very good, BTW). It disclosed that my car was never 
"officially" imported into the US ( no documention of importation). It had 
front bumper damage in '98 or '99 ( I forgot).

Back to carfax,  I used it again while I was looking for a replacement for 
my S6. Just for fun I ran it again ( now 2008) on my S6.  The PO accident 
was now on carfax, BUT the date was wrong: June 2004 instead of June 2003. 
Which made it appear as if the accident occurred while I owned it.

Harold M
Manchester, NH

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> I can vouch for that.  Recently saw a BMW 3 series convertible that
> had a clean CarFax but AutoCheck showed that it had frame damage when
> sold at the Manheim auction.  Sure enough, the car had been whacked in
> the rear.
>
> Darin Nederhoff
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> On Apr 8, 2009, at 7:25 AM, hoog23 at aol.com wrote:
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>> Did anyone read the article in the link below?? Pretty interesting
>> how Carfax does not disclose known?information that?(may be)?
>> disclosed when a car is auctioned off.? Says that Autocheck does.
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: hoog23 at aol.com
>> To: s-car-list at audifans.com; dlandaeta at gmail.com
>> Sent: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 4:05 pm
>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] vin check? Edit: Working Link
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>> http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/19086976/detail.html
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