Can I run a Carfax on a Class A MH

The national insurance crime bureau has a free vin check nicb. org and you can get a title report from titlecheck. us for $5. Niether of these will show maintenance history.

This online tool can help decode this ***Link Removed***VIN number and get a full history report of almost any vehicle. You can also check a VIN to search auto parts and find out the market price of both new and pre-owned cars.

"Who knows maybe the ones trying to scare people off of Carfax are also the ones selling the chocolates."

Nope. If I have a vehicle for sale, and you want to pay for a Carfax, you go right ahead. If you decide NOT to buy the vehicle based on the Carfax report, it is your loss, not mine. In fact, a double loss: the price of the report, and you don't have the vehicle.
Somebody will come along and buy it, sooner or later, and I am probably in no hurry to sell anyway. Of course, the vehicle is to be sold "as is, where is, no warranty of any kind expressed or implied"!
After a little fender bender I recently had, I got a letter from the insurance company saying they had totaled the car. I found that interesting, since I had got the car out of the body shop a couple weeks prior to that, and the insurance paid for the repairs. Just out of curiosity I paid for a
Carfax report to see if the insurance had reported the car as totaled, since they also had not paid the lien off. The accident was reported, but it was not totaled. they got that right, at least.
It is worthy of note that most independent (not part of a franchised new car dealership) used car lots around here get their cars and trucks from one or the other of the local auto auctions. These are vehicles that the big dealers don't want on their lots for more than a couple weeks.

John&Joey wrote:

...snip... all vehicles are not reported to CarFax, and as you've seen in previous posts, they may or may not be accurate, so what good are they. :h

Because things like state registration and miles are reported (under 100K). Change of title name is. Anything that the state requires to legally license the car is. Just about any reported insurance claim will also be.

Now can you go to many shops and pay cash for repairs without being logged, of course you can. But if you get a Carfax on a 10 year old vehicle that has had 15 owner changes, two auctions, all occurring in three different states that also reports zero accidents but a magnetic will not stick to the lower door panel, and is barely over 100K miles with a worn brake peddle. Well guess what Forrest, that vehicle is going to be just like a box of chocolates.

Who knows maybe the ones trying to scare people off of Carfax are also the ones selling the chocolates.

the problem is that just because the car fax says it has 15 owners doesn't mean that it isn't a 1 owner vehicle . Car fax is totally unreliable!!

...snip... all vehicles are not reported to CarFax, and as you've seen in previous posts, they may or may not be accurate, so what good are they. :h

Because things like state registration and miles are reported (under 100K). Change of title name is. Anything that the state requires to legally license the car is. Just about any reported insurance claim will also be.

Now can you go to many shops and pay cash for repairs without being logged, of course you can. But if you get a Carfax on a 10 year old vehicle that has had 15 owner changes, two auctions, all occurring in three different states that also reports zero accidents but a magnetic will not stick to the lower door panel, and is barely over 100K miles with a worn brake peddle. Well guess what Forrest, that vehicle is going to be just like a box of chocolates.

Who knows maybe the ones trying to scare people off of Carfax are also the ones selling the chocolates.

AGC wrote:
I agree that Carfax has limited information, in the past I've always used Carfax as supplement data, I don't based my car buying decision on Carfax alone. It doesn't hurt to make sure Carfax is clean as when it's time to sell your car a lot of people will ask "Does it have a clean Carfax report."



I was curious to see if Carfax also covered MH

Thanks

Only the ones that don't have a clue about Car Fax, all vehicles are not reported to CarFax, and as you've seen in previous posts, they may or may not be accurate, so what good are they. :h

I agree that Carfax has limited information, in the past I've always used Carfax as supplement data, I don't based my car buying decision on Carfax alone. It doesn't hurt to make sure Carfax is clean as when it's time to sell your car a lot of people will ask "Does it have a clean Carfax report."

I was curious to see if Carfax also covered MH

Thanks

Sure, you can get a Carfax report, but I wouldn't spend the money.
If you want to be sure the title is "clear", ask to see it. If there is a lien on the vehicle, it will be shown in the appropriate space on the title. If the title is a Salvage or Rebuild or Bonded title, it will say so on the title.
If there is a lien shown on the title, but the seller has a lien release from the lender, then it is a clear title. When it is transferred, the lien will go away.

Car fax only reflects registration, insurance claims and service/repair provided at a certified service/repair center. An independent service or collision shop does not have to inform anyone of the service or repair. If the repairs were covered by insurance it will come up. If you paid out of pocket it will not.

I own two vehicles that will have clean car faxes but only I know better.

John&Joey wrote:
You can still get a lot of info from CarFax. How many owners, how many states it was registered in, how many miles, has it been on auction block. It can still paint a picture of a hard or easy life even without 100% repair info showing up.

from my experience car fax is wrong more often then not. Any info it gives you is useless.