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Originally Posted by maninblack
Interesting. Please state your source.
My reply:
I'm the source. Which accidents end up on carfax versus which do not? DMV does not report accidents to carfax, private individuals with an accident don't report to carfax, very few insurance companies if any(this is still being disputed)report to carfax, so that begs the question who does report to carfax? It seems that they get total loss data presumably through DMV, it seems that they get limited police/highway patrol accident reports through public record I presume? The fact is virtually no one cooperates with them so virtually no accidents show up on carfax. It's literally the rare occasion and weird circumstances that it does. That is where my 99.9% comes from. I'm in the collision repair business. I have fixed thousands of cars since carfax has been around and I only know of 2 that ended up on carfax. One through a police report and one mysteriously. I'll give the benefit of the doubt that several others have ended up on there as well and were not disclosed to me. As Tarek said great for salvage title and I'll say the occasional mileage rollback but other than that rarely an accident appears. If you want to be uber generous and say 80% of all accidents do not apppear on there that is still ridiculously incomplete.
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