The Truth About Carfax Every Buyer Needs to Hear

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• SM

  @Smitty_Sells_Cars · 11 months ago · pinned

  Just out of curiosity, how much does Carfax play into your purchase?

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• SN

  @snowrocket · 1 year ago

  Everything he said is 100% accurate. CarFax is ONE of MANY tools to use to assess a used car.<br><br>I bought a 1999 Subaru Impreza wagon a few years ago from a dealer in Virginia. It had a &quot;clean&quot; CarFax but was obviously wrecked and not entirely fixed on the right side. Two friends of mine also bought cars that looked great with a &quot;clean&quot; CarFax, and later shops found collision repairs had been done to them.

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• RI

  @richy1014 · 1 year ago

  Pro tip: Taco Bell smells can be remedied by replacing the driver&apos;s seat with one from a junkyard.

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• KR

  @krazmokramer · 1 year ago

  I bought a BMW online from what turned out to be a crooked dealership in North Carolina. &nbsp;Carfax was clean. &nbsp;and the dealer told me by phone that it had no mechanical issues. &nbsp;I specifically asked about the head gasket. &nbsp;When the car arrived in Kansas, the gas tank was bone dry (cheap dealer siphoned the gas out before shipping.) &nbsp;The front end had been damaged and cheaply repaired with pop rivets and a metal patch across the broken plastic showing, and there was copper dust floating in the radiator...a sure sign of attempting to fix a blown head gasket. &nbsp;The #3 spark plug was corroded into the block...also a sign of head gasket damage. &nbsp;So YES...Carfax doesn&apos;t mean 💩. &nbsp;THANKS for this video!!

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• DE

  @destroyingdadxx2274 · 1 year ago

  Yup went to look at a used truck last year at a local used car lot. &nbsp;Carfax said no accidents reported. I got there and the truck had a huge dent in the front. The hood was actually buckled from the impact! So much for carfax!

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• AL

  @alexsagatelian4388 · 1 year ago

  I recently bought a 2023 Camry. After I started negotiating the price, the salesman and his &quot;closer&quot; swore up and down it had a clean Carfax, car had never been hit or had any body damage. I drove it, everything seemed ok. I opened the hood to look for over spray, etc; it was a bright sunny day and I couldn&apos;t see anything amiss. After purchasing, I drove it to my wife&apos;s office to show her. She doesn&apos;t have cataracts, and noticed that the driver&apos;s side fender had repair damage. I called the salesman, and he said &quot;oh yeah, it was damaged here at the dealership. I took the car back, wanting to get my deposit money back. The sales manager told me that the car is not his problem, that I&apos;m stuck with it, that I&apos;m just like all of his customers in wanting something for free, etc. Called an attorney the next day, they are working on it. Never trust a dealership - and this is a large Toyota dealership in Southern California. It&apos;s sad that some dealerships are this crooked. They give others a bad name.

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• UO

  @uo2230 · 1 year ago

  Agreed however, I wouldn&apos;t buy a car w/o it. The best way to tell if the car is good, pay for an inspection.

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• MA

  @markteich1766 · 1 year ago

  Several years ago I had a deer hit that resulted in $4000 to $5000 in damage. Some time later, I saw the Carfax for the car and all it said was that &nbsp;“maintenance” had been done. Carfax is only as good as what is inputted/inputted accurately into their system.

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• OL

  @oldsharkbythesea3962 · 7 days ago

  If people get their car repaired off the record with no insurance claim, it’s not gonna show up on CarFax.

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• MA

  @magdrango23 · 1 year ago

  The car itself tells you so much, have it checked out by a mechanic. &nbsp;I had a 2004 Dodge Viper, and when I took it in for service, they told me it was a Police DARE &nbsp;vehicle for a sheriff&apos;s office in CO, it wasn&apos;t on the car fax yet showed up on the service report at the dealership. &nbsp;Answered a lot of questions.

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• M0

  @M0viLover · 1 year ago

  Ha, ha - I&apos;m a CPA, and live by the motto, &quot;trust, but verify!&quot; &nbsp;I bought a used car in 2004, and <b>should</b> have had it inspected, beforehand. &nbsp;Major corrosion issues.. &nbsp;I bought a different used car late 2023. &nbsp;This time, I <b>did</b> research a local mechanic, and had an inspection done, before I signed the paperwork. &nbsp;21 months in - no problems, except for a manufacturer recall.

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• EG

  @egman5225 · 1 year ago

  My friend took his new Dodge truck back to the dealership for electrical issues multiple times. Come to find out they didn&apos;t put it into the system that the truck was there. Guess what, it has a clean car fax, because they didn&apos;t report the truck of having issues.

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