Totaled Truck...CARFAX
My previous truck was totaled several months ago. After the insurance settlement, it was towed away. Today I found it on a used car lot (not dealer) but it appears to have been repaired although I do...
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1492 wrote:
I just recently purchased my first used car, which is no longer made though popular with owners who tend to hold onto them. The CarFax report indicated no "reported" accidents. However, I was lucky to have most of the records from the previous owner which indicated an USAA insurance claim for a collision. After carefully reviewing the paperwork, I determined that the damage was largely cosmetic, no frame damage, though $2000+ to repair.
The lesson being that services like CarFax appear to list only what has been reported from their sources. In fact, I'm not sure what the criteria is for reporting damaged vehicles in their report? No accidents not necessarily meaning the vehicle was not involved in some type of accident?
Do you realize how little damage it takes to get a repair bill up p $2,000+?
If a fender and bumper are damaged even slightly,'but need replacement bill will be $2,000+!
