I'm I Shafted and Stuck with this Corvette?
#41
Instructor
Never accept a dealer or car lots Car Fax. They falsify information on them all the time. Pay the $ and get your own reports. As mentioned earlier Car Fax warrantees their reports.
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Drifting
#43
Le Mans Master
WOW, So he should just take all our non-leagel advice and just take whatever happens as a lesson in buyer beware?? Sure hope ur not a lawyer. Normally and where I'm from lawyers will listen to your complaint say if you have any case and if not explain to you how to handle the issue, all at no charge and if charged it's a small fee. Then you leave with piece of mind and no what if's.
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St. Jude Donor '05
Youd hope but not always. Mine shows up clean as a whistle and isnt
#45
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2020 C6 of the Year Winner - Modified
Like others have said, sometimes Carfax is incorrect. I purchased a '99 Hugger Orange Camaro SS with 1600 miles on it, still had the plastic on the seats & floor mats. I owned the car for nearly 3 years & put 40k miles on it. I ran a Carfax when I listed it for sale & it had a red warning flag with 25 entries listed for my car all of which had dates during the period of my ownership. Luckily I had all maintenance receipts & records for everything on the car (it was 1 of only 3 HO hardtop 6 speeds with white leather interior), but I had to explain the errant Carfax to every potential buyer. IIRC it was a long drawn out process to try to get Carfax to change their report which I never did because I was able to sell the car for what I was asking.
#46
I'm sure that there will always be that percentage of dealers that will partake in skulduggery just to sell a car, but I think suggesting that dealers falsify info on a regular basis may be a stretch. I think that might fall under the term fraud....or something along those lines.....