Can anyone help me with a vin# check ?

1G1YY36W985100145

 

What are you looking for?

For history under orig B2B, take VIN to any GM dealer & ask for a GMVIS. A free service.
For further info Carfax would do it for providing prior owners & any/all accident(s), repairs regardless who owed and/or when.
IIRC CF cost is ~$40 from CF directly, although a member posted a website doing CFs for <$2, IIRC.

Between a CF & GMVIS lies the entire story. G/L

 

Yup, it looks to be a vin number.

 

Just click on the VIN number in your post and it will give you some info. Dealer service records will also help.

It looks like your was the 145th Corvette built for the 08 Model year. I researched mine, and it is the 6th built! Carfax did not help me much because after the first owner which was GM, the car was auctioned but to who I do not know? At least with the VIS from the dealer you can see the service records but only if GM did the service.

 

Um, perhaps. Just me, but...a Carfax, an autocheck, and a VIS are all great tools to use to look into a car's history.

 

Yep. Want to make sure some nutjob didn't own the car.

 

I am looking at my car's CARFAX. Owner 1 Year purchased 2007 Corporate Fleet, GM at WARREN MICHIGAN got the car as a PILOT CAR. Estimated length of ownership "6 MONTHS". It then shows it going to auction 11-15-2007 "7 Months" with 14,908 on the odometer.

The second owner is listed as purchasing it in 2015 and owning it 9 days?

The 3rd owner purchase date is 2015 owned 1 Year.

No other owners shown? So Carfax shows 3 owners and 1year, 6 Months and 9 Days ! Under the Detailed History it does not show owners but does show Title activity and service.

Very hard to trace!

 

Hey...it's a base. Of course a nut job owned the car!

 

Looks clean based on this site;

https://www.research.com/paging-vin-...YY36W985100145

I would check other sources as well.

 

It's important to check both CARFAX and AUTOCHECK. They don't always report the same. One big box outfit uses AUTOCHECK which reports ownership change and accidents. CARFAX gets a bit further into the maintenance side of the vehicle.

Steer clear of vehicles with little to no reported maintenance. Granted self documentation is not always reported. This is a huge revenue source for a dealer or service shops to sell these records to both agencies.

Also not all accidents are reported. Some states have a threshold for dollar damage and filing a police report. Also with insurance privacy rights, insurance companies can not sell claim information on pay outs for collision/ comp damage to these reporting agencies.

Also you should pull your own report when shopping vs. letting the seller hand you over a printed copy and saying sign here. Photoshop is the key word here!

You should also recheck after your purchase as some items have not hit the reporting agencies yet! Especially if the last few entries are very close to your purchase date. Dealers like to sell inventory as soon as they acquire it so you're none the wiser. Also the dealer may hand you a report pulled prior to any presale fixes.

Another hint is a lemon is often concealed by not closing out an RO.

Also if a manufacture buys the vehicle back before being forced to by arbitration it's not branded as a lemon. Huge black eye for the next buyer either way! Lemons are usually spotted by numerous service visits. Some people may claim the owner was OCD. I'm not buying that card.

If you are unsure what you're doing, get a certified pre inspection. If the seller refuses, that's a good sign they are hiding something.

 

Sometimes when you just google the vin, it will show if the car has been in any insurance auction, or possibly someone has posted info on the car thru something like this forum.

 

There is good advice in these posts but buying a car is a crap shoot. As said all accidents are not reported. Cars that have been in a flood will still look good it is the hidden stuff that hurts in that case! I bought a new Ford Explorer a few years back, it was raining when I picked it up and I left on a trip the next morning. When I got back and washed it, I noticed the ACID RAIN DAMAGE! The Dealer would not take the car back but He did repaint it. It looked good but I always was unsatisfied! The Carfax on that car did not mention the paint job! What is the old saying, BUYER BEWARE!

 

I would never buy a car new or used if the weather was not crystal clear. All that effects the looks and can't been seen until it's too late.

Even flood vehicles have a tendency to wash up with clean titles. A few insurance companies were caught selling them unbranded. They claimed everything but the truth.

When I bought my C6, the dealer pulled an AutoCheck. I pulled a CARFAX and bingo! A whole host of things that never showed up on his reporting. The dealer claimed it was a mistake. I inspected it myself and found the damage plain as day! Then claimed it was not frame damage, therefore not reportable. When pigs fly I said! I walked on the deal.

 

Be aware that CarFax is now a car salesman's tool! What you see on a CarFax report is mostly true, it's what they don't show is what you should be concerned with.

Tom

 

When I bought my vette the Carfax didn't show flood damage. And I've been concerned ever since...