accuracy of carfax reports

[JB3]

Just curious to see if any one else had this particular problem. A friend of mine was used car shopping, and paid for this service, and we ran a bunch of VINs for the hell of it. I discovered a serious discrepancy with a carfax report on 2 of my older diesels.

It was totally inaccurate on both of them.

One, an 83 with about 220,000 miles was reported as sold to me with 190,000 miles a year before I bought it, and reported as sold again with 250,000 miles even though It was totaled in my ownership at 225,000 miles!

The second one, an 83 with 320,000 miles at the time of purchase, was reported as sold to me accurately with the correct mileage, then afterwords recorded as in a collision marked at 200,000 miles! 120,000 miles less than the sale which was recorded as 6 months prior. I owned that car for 2.5 years with no accidents.

My conclusion is that the carfax program is not to be trusted if you are someone who has owned lots of the same model car in the same year range with similar mileage. Things got hopelessly confused, and some information from all 7 of my 123s owned over the years, as well as totally bogus information, was mixed into both reports.