Anyone out there happen to have a Carfax account that could check a vin# for me? I'm looking at a truck with salvage title but the owner does'nt have history. I've seen where members of others boards have offered to do this. I just hate to spend the bucks if someone bought a unlimited plan. Thanks [email protected]
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well, all carfax wll say is that the title is not clear and they will not guarantee the vehicle.... CARFAX is so vague it isnt even hardl helpfull... if you already know it is on a salvage title just know that the car was completly totalled for reason or another... i would never buy a salvage vehicle unless i was planning on doing some SERIOUS mods, like hacking the frame to bag the car/truck to the floor
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I tried Carfax for the first time a few weeks ago. Was looking at a vehicle in an auction 2 hours away, and figured Carfax would give me some useful background. Ha.
After plunking down my Visa, the report swore up and down that the vehicle was practically perfect in every way. One owner vehicle, low miles, tags last renewed ~50k km and nearly 2 years ago. That seemed odd, so I pulled the used vehicle package from the Ministry of Transportation (I'm in Ontario) for $20. Big diffrerence.
Original owner traded this Suburban to a Ford dealership 14 months ago. The Ford dealer sold it to a nondescript used lot after a month. That used lot kept it as a shop truck for a year, ran the miles up, beat it to heck, then set it out on their lot for sale when the tags ran out. When nobody'd buy the poor whupped critter, they farmed it out to piggyback in a government surplus auction, where I found it.
As far as Carfax was concerned, the last time the original owner renewed his license plates was the last time anything happened to this truck. In reality, it'd passed through 2 more owners and piled on 50k since then. They did eventually refund my Visa when I told them about the missing information, but it was an awkward process. I won't trust their data again.
Good luck!
After plunking down my Visa, the report swore up and down that the vehicle was practically perfect in every way. One owner vehicle, low miles, tags last renewed ~50k km and nearly 2 years ago. That seemed odd, so I pulled the used vehicle package from the Ministry of Transportation (I'm in Ontario) for $20. Big diffrerence.
Original owner traded this Suburban to a Ford dealership 14 months ago. The Ford dealer sold it to a nondescript used lot after a month. That used lot kept it as a shop truck for a year, ran the miles up, beat it to heck, then set it out on their lot for sale when the tags ran out. When nobody'd buy the poor whupped critter, they farmed it out to piggyback in a government surplus auction, where I found it.
As far as Carfax was concerned, the last time the original owner renewed his license plates was the last time anything happened to this truck. In reality, it'd passed through 2 more owners and piled on 50k since then. They did eventually refund my Visa when I told them about the missing information, but it was an awkward process. I won't trust their data again.
Good luck!
Carfax wouldn't be able to report that kind of information becuase a dealer doesn't register the vehicle. They place a dealer tag on it and run it under their blanket insurance policy. That how the new car guy's do it to. I bought a 2006 Trailblazer before my Yukon and it had 3500 miles on it but the title was new. The owners daughter had been using it for college with the dealer tag. I got some money off the top so I wasn't a bad deal. No program is going to be complete. I would take the truck to your local shop and have it placed on the rack. Check the frame for damage. If the frame has been welded or heated up they have changed the propertys in the metal and made it weaker.
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Sorry, but that statement is incorrect.
The Ford dealer and the mixed-bag used dealer both transferred this truck into their name. They appear right there, big as life, on the $20 Used Vehicle Information Package produced by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. Names, addresses, dates, mileages, exactly the same as any other transfer of ownership or tag renewal.
Your state (?) may be different. All I know is what I plainly saw with my own two eyes on this one truck in this one province. I'm sorry that I can't scan the MTO document in for you, as I shredded it after I decided not to buy that vehicle. If you'd like to doublecheck me, I'll be happy to PM you the VIN and you can pull the MTO package for yourself. No problem at all.
