Caveat Emptor!! Run that Carfax!!
Well I encountered something today for the first time. Background: the man who's basically my father-in-law wants a used Sequoia for grandchild duty and he found a 2005 (SR5, 2wd) with 94,000mi for...
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bmanning wrote:catfishmontana wrote:Fordlover wrote:popupcamping wrote:
Carfax's are a very UN reliable way to buy a car.
They are good to find some that you don't want to buy.
But there are millions of vehicles out there that could have issues that a carfax will never show.
If things are not reported, a carfax is useless. Taking a "good" carfax report and buying because of that is not a good idea.
It is one tool that is helpful, out of many that should be used when evaluating a used vehicle.
Not if you are paying for the carfax yourself. I personally will not support a business such as carfax. Seems such a waste of money to get hit or miss info to me.
I did pay for it, and however isolated this case may be, spending $55 prevented me green-lighting my FIL to spend thousands of dollars under the premise of buying a 94k mile truck when in actuality he'd have bought a nearly 200k miles truck.
Everyone is free to hate Carfax, but it saved me a headache and my FIL a bad car deal.
Thing is, you could have also passed up a deal on a car with half the miles you though it had. See what I am saying? On principle alone, I refuse to support a business such as carfax.
