carfax, yay or nay? Options

[brianforster]

ok so while in the market for my car I usually try and run a carfax on it (i dont have an account I just see how many things pop up)

and all of the ones I have found have had 10+ entries in the carfax database

what all is considered an entry on the database?

its kind of concerning to know a car I might buy has all of these entries.

have you had experiences with these VIN checks? if so post them please

[Clipsetuner]

well depending alot of things show up.
but when your looking for a car, alot of people will try and mess with you. Like on a RX7 we were buying got the VIN and ran it, and found out it was on a different Chasis, and the VIN had been changed, and we later found out that is was a white car even tho is was painted black. Later found out that it was a chop shop that'd change vins and stuff so will never go there again. Depending on what kinda car your looking at, and depending how much money/time you gonna dump into this car get the chasis code's and the Vins and make sure there the right one for the car. I know my buddy looked at a Skyline and it was just to good of a deal, then had a buddy read us the chasis code and a Skyline body was sitting on a older supra frame. So just becarefull, and oh yeah about the Skyline we just ended up paying 60k and got one direct from Japan ( lucky ba$tards I know ) hehe
DTE