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There needs to be a procedure for straightening out car fax reports that are wrong, sort of like we can do with our personal credit reports. Have a friend who lent his Subaru outback to his daughter so she could pick up some bulky item she was buying. She gets in a left turn accident - her fault. Insurance tows the car to the dealer and the body shop starts repairing it. Meanwhile, my friend decides that he wants to buy something else and goes to the dealer where his car is being repaired, and is told that they would cut him a decent deal on another car with the Subaru as a trade in. He finds a car he likes, they agree on a price and everything is great until the salesman pulls a carfax. According to the salesman, the Carfax showed that the car was a total loss, and they wouldn't even accept it as a trade in. This was despite the fact that the insurance company did NOT total the car and the body shop of the very same dealership was just finishing the final touches on the body work. Many, many phone calls later the carfax got cleaned up, but what a mess!
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