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CARFAX

Get your car history from your Uncle Sam? (Auto Fraud Week)

February 13, 2009

Hopefully in the not-too-distant future you will be able to get all the same information that Carfax sells you for $2.50 from Uncle Sam. I say hopefully because there are a number of forces conspiring to prevent it.
The Anti-Car Theft Act (the Act) of 1992 directed the U.S. Department of Transportation to establish [...]

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Carfax: know its limits (Auto Fraud Week)

February 9, 2009

Every time I hear a Cafax ad, it makes me want to scream. Carfax will not give you the “real history” of a car. What a Carfax report gives you is the reported history. There can be a big difference. What Carfax does is collect information reported to the various states’ motor vehicle departments. But [...]

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CARFAX, a history with holes big enough to drive a salvaged Mac truck through

November 29, 2007

I am always a bit shocked at some of the commercials I see and hear, but being that I deal with car sales scams quite a bit the CARFAX commercials catch my attention. Maybe you have seen or heard one. It starts out warning about damaged cars and then says a CARFAX report will protect [...]

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