CarFax is a rip-off! I paid the annual fee to receive a report on my own vehicle which I know to have been wrecked and the report came back clean. Internet

I think next time I see an add for Carfax for our local dealership, I will call them and alert them to this site. The carfax advertisement seems to be misleading and false.

i spent 4 months looking for a honda civic 5 spd
that had everything i wanted. when i found it i looked for all obvious signs of body work( paint overspray, replaaced parts ect) and found nothing. bought a carfax just to be sure, all came back clean. found out later the whole rear end, trunk, glass and all had been replaced. biggest ripoff yet. now i lagh when i see carlots offer free carfax reports!

I, too, ran a Carfax report on my own vehicle and was surprised at what did and did not show up.

The report correctly showed that the vehicle had been involved in an accident (my wife was at fault). It correctly showed that it once failed an Arizona emissions test.

But the car has passed the emissions test every other year and that was not shown. The reason that is important is that Arizona records the mileage each time a car is tested. The emissions tests therefore create a trail of odometer readings. If the Carfax report was accurate it would have shown that my car had 104,000 miles the last time it was tested. But since Carfax does not record the times my car passed, I could roll the odometer back to, say, 60,000 miles and no one would ever know by reading a Carfax report.

It appears from my own experience and from those reported above that Carfax reports are extremely incomplete and not very reliable.

I, too, ran a Carfax report on my own vehicle and was surprised at what did and did not show up.

The report correctly showed that the vehicle had been involved in an accident (my wife was at fault). It correctly showed that it once failed an Arizona emissions test.

But the car has passed the emissions test every other year and that was not shown. The reason that is important is that Arizona records the mileage each time a car is tested. The emissions tests therefore create a trail of odometer readings. If the Carfax report was accurate it would have shown that my car had 104,000 miles the last time it was tested. But since Carfax does not record the times my car passed, I could roll the odometer back to, say, 60,000 miles and no one would ever know by reading a Carfax report.

It appears from my own experience and from those reported above that Carfax reports are extremely incomplete and not very reliable.

I, too, ran a Carfax report on my own vehicle and was surprised at what did and did not show up.

The report correctly showed that the vehicle had been involved in an accident (my wife was at fault). It correctly showed that it once failed an Arizona emissions test.

But the car has passed the emissions test every other year and that was not shown. The reason that is important is that Arizona records the mileage each time a car is tested. The emissions tests therefore create a trail of odometer readings. If the Carfax report was accurate it would have shown that my car had 104,000 miles the last time it was tested. But since Carfax does not record the times my car passed, I could roll the odometer back to, say, 60,000 miles and no one would ever know by reading a Carfax report.

It appears from my own experience and from those reported above that Carfax reports are extremely incomplete and not very reliable.

I, too, ran a Carfax report on my own vehicle and was surprised at what did and did not show up.

The report correctly showed that the vehicle had been involved in an accident (my wife was at fault). It correctly showed that it once failed an Arizona emissions test.

But the car has passed the emissions test every other year and that was not shown. The reason that is important is that Arizona records the mileage each time a car is tested. The emissions tests therefore create a trail of odometer readings. If the Carfax report was accurate it would have shown that my car had 104,000 miles the last time it was tested. But since Carfax does not record the times my car passed, I could roll the odometer back to, say, 60,000 miles and no one would ever know by reading a Carfax report.

It appears from my own experience and from those reported above that Carfax reports are extremely incomplete and not very reliable.

I was looking at some used vehicles for my boyfriend and came across Carfax.com. I was curious because every vehicle I entered the VIN for came back with "issues" according to Carfax and asked if I wanted to order the full report. I then entered the VIN from my car, which I KNOW has no "issues" because I purchased it brand new and have never had any accidents with it. Yes, Volvo has had a couple of recalls on minor items but nothing major. Carfax indicated that there were 13 "issues" associated with my vehicle. I know that is not the case and am not going to pay the money to find out what bogus issues they have come up with. My main reason for writing this is that if I go to sell my car I would hate for someone to pull it up and think there are problems with it. Even worse, I would hate for someone to pay carfax to tell them that the 13 "issues" are not really issues at all.