Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:32:28 -0800
Reply-To: Debra Clark <clark10006@COX.NET>
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From: Debra Clark <clark10006@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: 27,000 orig miles?? / Car-Fax? Worthless.
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If this truly was a car that lived all it's life in Ca. and there was
nothing funny going on, then there would be smog results and mileage with
them. A car-fax is not worth much but it can be a beginning.
Debra Clark
Santee, California
clark10006@cox.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Perdue" <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: 27,000 orig miles?? / Car-Fax? Worthless.
> Okay, let's sort of settle this once and for all (yeah, right!). I ran
the report. The van qualifies for the clean title carfax guarantee. No
odometer rollback. Two vehicle
> history records, one passing smog inspection, the second a transfer of
title. Something very strange, to me anyway, is that there is no record of
any history for this van before
> 10/21/2002. Bid at your own risk. If anybody wants to know more about
this report, pmail me.
>
> Let the games begin . . . :^)
> Marc Perdue
>
> Rodney Woten wrote:
>
> > OR...they could run the report and possibly see that the odometer has
been rolled back or tampered with. Much the way it did on the '87 Wolfy we
were looking at from Minnesota.
> >
> > 50k miles too good to be true on an '87???? You betcha...and the carfax
report confirmed it. Mileage at the last registration was 90K miles and
that was in 1996!!!!
> >
> > What have they got to lose??? Will it hurt them to take a look at the
carfax report??? Especially if a list member is willing to do it for them
for free????
> >
> > -Rod
> >
> > ----------
> > From: MIME :THX0001@AOL.COM[SMTP:MIME :THX0001@AOL.COM]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:07 AM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: 27,000 orig miles?? / Car-Fax? Worthless.
> >
> > In a message dated 2/5/03 10:52:49 AM, clark10006@COX.NET writes:
> >
> > << Wouldn't this be easy to check out with a car-fax check? >>
> >
> > You can use a Car-Fax report when you go to the bathroom for all of its
> > ability to keep someone from doing a number on you. Anyone bent on
fraud has
> > little trouble making the necessary adjustments to produce a pristine
Car-Fax
> > record.
> >
> > Consider these couple of scenarios. I see full page ads in used car
> > advertising rags for large wrecking yards which deal in late model
insurance
> > recoveries. In these ads for totaled vehicles two things are often
> > highlighted in bold print: good airbags and GOOD TITLE. I take that to
mean
> > that the car is being sold with a kosher title and not a salvage title.
Now,
> > when that jewel is once again crab-walking its way down the road, how in
the
> > hell is Car-Fax going to inform a buyer of its little sojourn in Joe's
> > Junkyard?
> >
> > Also, I've seen one particularly audacious list member offering titles
and
> > VIN number plates to one and all who might need them. Being mindful of
this,
> > could it be possible that the lovely van you are buying showing 99 K on
the
> > clock has, in reality, already been fed into a Bessemer blast furnace?
> >
> > Years ago some notorious crook said, "More men are rob with a fountain
pen
> > than with a gun." Since then, the only thing that has changed is that
crooks
> > have less balls and better penmanship.
> >
> > George
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