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

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

Does anyone know if there are any other promos for a free carfax report??

Maybe we could buy one as a forum or something, from what I know they are unlimited uses.

I wonder how long a lifetime/unlimited account is

Carfax is a joke, lets say some one flooded thier car, if they didnt file it on their insurence then it wont be on a carfax report (of course that means they fixed it out of there own pocket.)

Carfax doesn't bring up all things..

My first car was a 93 Hyundai Scoope.. It had a cracked frame, was in 4 crashes, new tranny, new moter, and all sorts of problems.. Even had a Rebuilt title..


It had a clean carfax report..