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Old 02-07-2018, 10:13 PM   #28
thstone
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Originally Posted by Wangta View Post
Odd. I called the dealership where the records show the car being serviced (and even sold!)....they had no records of the car! The guy wasn't the most polite - he seemed a bit annoyed I was bothering him with asking for service records.
This is not unheard of. Some dealers have a policy that service/repair data is a personal record and so they don't want to share it with anyone except the owner.


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Originally Posted by Wangta View Post
On the more paranoid end of the spectrum - is it possible to 'fake' records in mycarfax and autocheck?
Car repair record services are notoriously inaccurate. I don't know if they are subject to outright fraud on a regular basis but the data is often just plain wrong. Even more common is data that is missing - there could be many more repairs and even accidents that never show up on these reports.
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