As some may or may not agree, I believe Privacy Laws were meant to protect actual personal information about a person, not automobiles. As the owner of several "high-line" Euro cars, I have no problems with anyone seeing the service history of my vehicles, especially if I was selling one. Anyone can run a CarFax on any vehicle they choose as long as they have the VIN number, so what is the difference of that and dealer records? If you own the automobile, you should own the records as well. Its not like you can get a credit card in someone else's name using a part number from a 2002 MB radiator hose, or can you?

So, I suppose the easy answer is to come up with a records disclosure form that the seller must sign and release at time of purchase. I know most of us love our MB's like children, but they are still only cars...not humans. Common Sense, I don't know what happened to it, but I sure do miss it.

Finally, as my "pro-communism" note on the subject, If greed-ridden corporate America would not openly offer credit to millions of people based on numbers and phone calls we wouldn't be having this discussion. Credit should be local face-to-face thing IMO, or at least by proxy through a local banking institution. Mark my unimportant words, it will get worse before it gets better, the current system if severely flawed when it is overflowing into mundane things such as automobile records