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**Rich Z** · 03-09-2006, 12:01 PM

Yeah, I know, I've used it too and thought it was a comprehensive listing of anything we all could rely on as gospel. Well at least I did.

But it just ain't so. When I got my monthly Carfax access for the Z I was looked at, I decided to run my own vehicles as well just to see what the database showed me. Well when I ran the check on this old 94 Chevy Astro I had at the time, I was pretty astonished to see that it did NOT list the accident my wife had with it. Messed up the front end to the tune of $2500 in damages which WERE filed with the insurance company, btw. So it should have definitely been on the record books. If that incident were missing, what are the odds that this was a one in a million situation that just happened to be the one I checked out?

So for what it is worth, don't place all your stock in what the Carfax says. It is very obviously incomplete and maybe significantly so, in my opinion.

03-09-2006, 12:01 PM	#1
Rich Z Internet Sanitation Engineer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Crawfordville, FL Posts: 15,125 Name : Rich Zuchowski	Carfax false sense of security.... Yeah, I know, I've used it too and thought it was a comprehensive listing of anything we all could rely on as gospel. Well at least I did. But it just ain't so. When I got my monthly Carfax access for the Z I was looked at, I decided to run my own vehicles as well just to see what the database showed me. Well when I ran the check on this old 94 Chevy Astro I had at the time, I was pretty astonished to see that it did NOT list the accident my wife had with it. Messed up the front end to the tune of $2500 in damages which WERE filed with the insurance company, btw. So it should have definitely been on the record books. If that incident were missing, what are the odds that this was a one in a million situation that just happened to be the one I checked out? So for what it is worth, don't place all your stock in what the Carfax says. It is very obviously incomplete and maybe significantly so, in my opinion.