Hey guys, I've been wondering this ....I tried doing a search but everything that shows up under carfax is people offering / requesting carfax checks. Basically who reports accidents, flood damage, etc... to carfax? is it a dealer bodyshop that is required to do so by law? what if someone takes their car to a mom and pop body shoop do they also have to report repars to carfax? I honestly don't see a lot of small body shop stores doing that..so then if that's the case then a car with a clean carfax record hwould probably only mean the owner never took the car big body shop who reported it and might have instead taken it to a small shop or done the repair himself?.....and still the record looks clean? or maybe Im just way off.....
#10870, "RE: How does carfax get their info?" In response to Reply # 0
It's mostly based on insurance records, vehicle registration records, etc.
Yes, a repaired car could easily show up clean on Carfax if the repairs were done "off the record" so to speak, whether by mistake or by not being reported to any of the databases used by Carfax during routine searches.
#10878, "RE: How does carfax get their info?" In response to Reply # 3
yeah, carfax is far from the end all know all solution. if its not reported...then nothing comes up. while its really the best thing we have so far, there are still many ways to get around those records
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