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Originally Posted by mobius911
I was rear-ended sitting at a red light. Damage was light; the car behind me was hit hard, but pushed forward and only mildly scratched my rear bumper. This was on a 12-year old RX-8 with 120,000 miles.
I'm sure it shows up on Carfax, as there was a claim. But I decided to live with the small imperfection and pocketed the money. Not sure this is the case with the cited example, but it does happen.
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It happened with a 930 I recently bought too, I have no idea about the BaT auction you’re all talking about as I haven’t tuned into it, but it does happen. The car I bought was in a very minor fender bender 17 years go, it was so minor that there was no visible damage other than a small buckling of one of the front bumper rubber accordions. But because another car was involved there was an accident report filed and thus the Carfax accident notation. I’m sure the owner at the time just pocketed the insurance money as well. I just repaired this damage only because I wanted to repaint the front clip of the car since it had so many rock chips on it, so I addressed the minor damage from 17 years ago at the same time. Thus an accident that was reported 17 years ago that wasn’t repaired until 2018, the body panels and paint were both original when I acquired the car.
Not to say the auction or seller is or isn't legit in regards to the specific BaT auction you’re all discussing, I’m just commenting on the fact that this does tend to happen with accidents that result in very minor damage.