Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:37:02 -0500
Reply-To: Marc Perdue <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET>
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From: Marc Perdue <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET>
Subject: Re: 27,000 orig miles?? / Car-Fax? Worthless.
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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
>
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> 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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