Originally Posted by smokinsrt6
Attention to all Forum Members:
DO NOT TRUST CARFAX REPORTS!
I can tell you first hand that a Carfax report is unreliable. I operate 2 car dealerships and we stop using Carfax 3 years ago.
Here are the issues. First they do not guarantee that the report is accurate because they rely on the insurance industry to report all claims on every vehicle. Well that just dos not happen. In the USA there is no federal laws that mandate that insurance companies report all claims to a central system becsaue there is no such thing. It's strickly volentary. Some states may have some kind of required declaration of accident reporting but it is rare to find a state that does it.
Car dealers or wholesalers and even some shrewd privateers know how to get around producing a bad report. Most deal in vehicles from out of state knowing that nothing will be found.
FYI, Carfax has a giant class action law suite against them right now for vehicle report misrepresentation. They can not be trusted.
Before you purchase any car make sure that you perform a professional mechanical and physical vehicle inspection at a top notch service center and body shop.
Good luck members
This is a bit OT for the "SRT6" forum- however I can attest to this. I got burnt before when I bought a car with a clean car-fax traded it in at a later date only to find it had indeed been in an accident that never showed up until a year after owning the car. Car Fax washes their hands of this and states it isn't their fault- and doesn't tie in with their guarantee as it was a case of the data not posting to the Car Fax fast enough.