I bought a car about 15 months ago and ran a carfax report which came back clean. Now I need to sell the car and someone told me that they did a carfax report and it came back with inconsistent millage. Why did this not show up initially when I purchased the car? Is there anything I can do? If someone changes the millage isn't that illegal? Can I find out the specifics of when the change of millage occured? From my research I've learned that carfax is apperently a waste of money and often either lacks info or places false info on accidents and millage in the report. So am I screwed with a car that may have a lot more miles than the 60K I think it has?
2007-09-20 03:23:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
my first suggestion would be to run a carfax check on it yourself so you can see exactly what this person is talking about. he may have entered the wrong car information. if you do not have a current subscription to carfax maybe you know someone who does or maybe this person will let you use his
2007-09-20 03:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by hermitofnorthdome 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you still have the Carfax report from 15 months ago, and it was clean, run another one to be sure that what the person told you is actually correct!
They may have entered the wrong VIN. If there is a difference other than your titling the car, and any repairs or inspections that were done while you had it, contact Carfax and ask that the records be corrected!
2007-09-20 10:38:28 · answer #2 · answered by fire4511 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I adore carfax. Kept the studio I work for from buying a salvage titled truck that was selling for a never-wrecked price.
My boss bought a diffferent truck, the mileage on the carfax was lower by 20k! She said she asked the seller about it & he said he'd changed the size of the tire and that affected the mileage. I'm buying that a smidge, truly though, I think he kept driving it and didn't have it maintained (oil change, emissions inspection, you know the usual "check-ins") so the mileage on Carfax was lower. It's still a great truck & worth most all we paid for it. Check for yourself, get the month long carfax membership so when YOU go buy a different car you can use it to check them out.
***Check your service records which should be in your file you got when you bought the car or in the maintenance log in the glove box. Dealers & mechs always put in the mileage when they serviced it-that's how you know your service intervals.***
2007-09-20 11:13:32 · answer #3 · answered by Needs the Cash 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Im not sure on what you can do about it, but I do know that a carfax report would not lie about the mileage a car has...Whoever you got the car from sounds like they most definantly rolled the miles back...You can tell if parts on your car fail on you that wouldnt fail until you got real high mileage...thats all the help i can give right now.
2007-09-20 10:36:38 · answer #4 · answered by Joe C. 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋