just wondering if anyone has a carfax account need to run a search or know how to get a free full report for carfax???

 

careful, that's against the rules...

it's only $25 to do as many as you want for a month anyway...

 

Just an FYI, Carfax won't always be accurate. If someone did something to the vehicle and it didn't get a police report written up, it won't be recorded. Usually unless there's drugs, alcohol or someone got hurt. No police report. I know mine was clear and I saw issues right away. Same deal with a couple friends of mine.

 

Its against forum rules to ask for free carfax reports.

It should be noted that in some states all accidents over a certain value get a police report, and some states don't.

In NY if its over $1000 in damage it gets a police report. Anything under that the report is optional. If theres a crash that leads to an arrest it will also get a police report. Some dmv's also report odometer issues, or suspected issues that do sometimes show up on the carfax report.

Carfax is worth it imo, but I wouldn't use it as my only source of figuring out if the car was in a crash. When you're ready to go shopping get the $25 for unlimited vin's deal (or whatever it is), and just run every car that you look ats vin.

 

I did mean to add that different rules do apply for different states. It's cheap enough just to check it out.