lol i crashed my old tiburon being a jackass did 3k damage fixed it with cash and traded it in a week later to a honda dealer for my last car b4 the G and noone knows

 

My G35 has a clean carfax and I found out later that the backend had been replaced.

 

i dont understand....you think a dealer or any private seller will let you drive the car away for full inspection ?

 

Most accidents won't show up on car fax unless i has had frame work done, or major body panel replaced. When I had an accident that's what my body shop told me

 

You request to have the car checked out at a trusted garage or you rent a mechanic to meet you at the dealer/seller location. If they have nothing to hide they should be okay with it.

When I was selling my FD privately the seller asked if I could bring it to a Mazda dealer that specialized in rotaries. It was a 45 min drive, I got nothing to hide and was compensated for it. Buyer was happy, I was happy, it wasn't a big deal.

 

The way carfax works is that it checks for REPORTED accidents. If you never made a police report, filed an insurance claim, or it was never discovered by the DMV, it will NOT be on Carfax. The cost of the repair or the type of repair do not matter. Carfax is a good tool to use when buying a used car but you must always supplement it with an inspection.

Im not sure how it is where some of you guys live, but here in NYC, car insurance is astronomical. This is especially true for drivers under 25. So when an accident occurs around here, especially a minor one, drivers are very eager to deal with it on their own without cops or insurance claims. Generally, any accident around here will cause your insurance cost to jump at least 50%-75%.

To answer a question earlier asked.. yes, the seller should allow you to just take the car to inspect it before purchasing it if you are serious about the purchase. If he doesn't, that should automatically tell you theres something he doesn't want you to know and you should walk away from the deal.

OP, sorry this happened to you. really bummer =\
but you shouldn't disregard Carfax next time you buy a car.

 

sorry to hear that man. was the damage massive??? or was it just a mild front end kind of thing?

 

Turns out it was minor, looked like it may have been run up on a curb and then fixed. nothing too bad, thank god... the dealer was playing some games making it sound worse than it was, but when i pressed him about it he told me exactly what it looked like.

 

Also, you should not assume that a missing A/C belt is always an indicator that work has been done on the car!

I just discovered this past HOT weekend that my A/C belt was missing. There was no evidence of collateral damage, nor was there any part of a broken belt to be found under the hood.

I had had no work done on the car other than an oil change, where I was present the entire time in the service bay. It's probably very unusual, but this belt can apparantly fail and go missing all on its own

 

They aren't going to certify if no matter what because it wasn't purchased from them. A car pretty much has to have spent it's entire life as part of Infiniti (purchased from, leased from) to qualify for CPO status. And they will certify a car that's been in an accident. But it has to be minor, and has to have been repaired at an Infiniti dealership.

 

Yes. If they've got nothing to hide. I've let people take my car and I've taken cars somewhere to be inspected. In both cases, I/they'd made appointments somewhere we both knew and I/they verified it by calling the place. A dealer will certainly let you. Hell, they let you test drive the car for an extended time period (1-2 hours), why wouldn't they let you get it inspected?