Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
Are you buying from a dealer or a private party? Most dealers will run the carfax for you.
Also carfax only tells you the title history of the car, NOT stuff like if it's ever been in an accident. Just so's ya know.
yes, but in most cases a car will be taken to a dealer or to a body shop or mechanic which if i remember correctly is shown on a carfax if the damage is over a certain ammount (last carfax i ran reported a car was in an accident and that there was 4k+ damage done to the front end) and has been reported.
many of their sources on that data can be 6 months behind if i read it right...