Hi, I am looking to buy a used car, but I want to check its history. Does anyone know of a cheap but reliable vehicle history report service site? I just think Carfax is overpriced.

I’ve never used CarFax but have used AutoCheck - it was more reasonable though they’re all nutty expensive unless you buy some kind of package. (Unlimited for X time or XX # of reports or something). I also found AutoCheck to be much more complete. On several occasions I was able to compare CarFa…

I agree that they don’t offer all the information I need to buy a car. I am planning to use it in addition to taking it to my mechanic for a check-up. I thought I heard somewhere there is free vehicle history report.

Dealers will give you the Carfax or Autocheck for nothing if you are looking at a car. Also you can sign up for the 30 day service. It used to be $30 and you could access as many reports as you wanted in the 30 days.

If Carfax reports a problem/incident with the vehicle, then you know there was at least one problem/incident. However, if the Carfax report doesn’t report any problems, then you know nothing more than you did before you read the report.

Carfax or AutoCheck can only report to you what was reported to them. Many times problems are never reported…so you may get clean report, but the car had been in 3 accidents and actually had 400k miles on it…

…or had been in a flood, and was a salvage vehicle until someone moved it to another state and “sanitized” its registration.

Or the car was reported stolen, but it really wasn’t(OK4450?)

Yes, that was me. CF was also inaccurate on several other family members cars. One of mine (a SAAB 900) was shown to be “currently stolen”. That was at odds with the DMV and the car being in my drive. One of my old Subarus was on a Salvage Title for about 7 or 8 years and CF showed it to be a clea…

There are other sites like Autocheck by Experian but carfax is the most detailed and have more records on odometer. I would suggest going with carfax compare to other cheaper reports as it’s a one time purchase and you don’t want to get a car that has bad history or odometer rollback

Is there a free or cheap vehicle history report site? Carfax is too expensive

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davesmopar February 5, 2025, 5:13am 13

Welcome to the forum…

BTW you replied to a thread that has been dead for 14 years…

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Is there a free or cheap vehicle history report site? Carfax is too expensive

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