Many people have said it right here. CARFAX does not know everything about every accident any given car may have been in. It is unfortunate that many people think CARFAX is in-fallible. Tonight on 2020, ABC proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Here is a link to the segment. http://abcnews.go.c…

@ok4450 I’m not doubting you, but do you personally know anyone that has chucked their bad title and obtained a clean title “through the Title 42 process” ? I just read that article. That guy isn’t going to serve anywhere near 20 years. He probably won’t even serve 1/4 of the time.

I don’t know what the Title 42 process is. I have bought salvage title vehicles out of OK, TX and MO. I never questioned trying to erase that status after they were fixed and branded as rebuilt. A duplicate title in my state will most certainly still carry the salvage or rebuilt salvage brand if …

Yep, you can repeat it 1,000 times, but there are still idiots out there who are willing to trust people who have a conflict of interest when they buy a used car.

Yes, I personally know someone (deceased as of about a year ago) who used to build heaps on occasion and sell them. The tag agent would fork over a clean title no matter what. I’ve also worked for a few dealers who took in extremely low miles cars (3k to 20K miles) with clean titles. The cars were …

There is also the possibility that your friend was rebuilding cars that were wrecked, but never owned by an insurance company and issued a salvage title. I know that happens. IIRC, Experian’s Auto Check was the one that found the issues that CarFax missed on the TV story I linked. I suppose there…

It’s about time. Let the truth begin.

Carfax is worst then the ABC News 20/20 report exposed. There are 11 problems with a Carfax report that Carfax doesn’t tell their customers. Please visit http://www.usedcarinspections.org/carfax.htm . The # 1 reason vehicles with existing problems are purchase is the buyers’ inability to determine …

I’ve stated many times on this forum that CarFax is very suspect. They seem to be gathering more data then they did a few years ago. But just based on the data they say they get their data from says they don’t get a clear history of a vehicle. . First off…repairs (NOT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCIDENT). …

I’d like to see 20/20 or some other investigative journalistic organization get Carfaxes on 500 “for sale” (or recently sold) vehicles and then investigate the actual backgrounds and compare the difference. They have the resources, and this would demonstrate how accurate/inaccurate Carfax reports re…

“Title washing” is not that hard to do. Crooks do it differently depending on which state they’re in. Some states will require minimal paperwork to replace a “lost” title or people can have the car titled in a state then quickly title it in another state before the branding catches up. I have even s…

CARFAX exposed by ABC's 2020

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davesmopar April 1, 2026, 11:48am 36

When I bought our Vibe from the dealers used car lot it had a clean CarFax report, but I pointed out where it had been repaired after a small wreck… I knew the CarFax report could not be trusted, if it shows something, it probably happened, but that doesn’t mean nothing ever happened… Like already said, it only shows you what has been reported… Not everything gets reported…

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