Carfax

whats up everybody! new guy here. was referred to the forum by a friend with a situation ive got. im in the market for a used tacoma. been looking for a short time now. came across a few that i like but found one today that i really like and its local!!! so i called and spoke with a salesman at the lot where its for sale. long story short i was wanting to know if anybody could help me out with a carfax report on the truck without me dropping the $40 for the report. i have the vin number if anybody is interested in helping me out. PM me or i can be reached on my cell at 239-269-2231. thanks in advance and looking forward to hanging out for a while.

 

Anyone?!

 

the dealer should give you a carfax on the truck

 

Morning! Thanks for the reply. The guy said they don't do Carfax they use some other program similar to it though. I ran the Vin and it says 23 reports. Its a 08 with less than 35k miles. Just seems odd to me. Also, its a prerunner with a 4x4 sticker on the windshield. I told him I hadn't seen a 4x4 prerunner and his reply was "he was informed it wasn't 4x4 after he took the picture and posted the ad"... I don't know, maybe I'm over tinking it?!

 

Its not a big dealership either. One of those buy here pay here deals. They buy auction vehicles and buy from other big dealerships.

 

ask for the name and number of previous owner. Spend the 40 bucks it may save you many x that.

 

23 reports could be a number of things including service that was done on the truck. I recently purchased a used Tundra the carfax had numerous reports on it (none of which involved a wreck)
Take a look at the report he has and go from there with it

 

Can they give that info? Didn't know that was legal..

 

if its a buy here pay here lot, I imagine that truck has been thru a few auctions. if so you probably wouldn't be able to get that info. even though that dealer doesn't use carfax, his report should let you know where the truck has been and any accidents

 

I assume so.

 

I asked if he could provide a clean Carfax because the ad says nothing about one. He said they don't use Carfax but could provide the report for the program they use..

 

The other report is probably autofax, when i bought my used tacoma the dealer kept saying yea, we have a carfax here it is. They showed me a autofax report instead. I ended up buying the truck. Fast forward and im trading it at another dealer and they offer a low price and tell me the reason is it has a bad carfax, this time im shown a real carfax report, not autofax or whatever the hell it was. The carfax had a severe front impact with a deer with damage bad enough that it needed towed away. If they dont want to get the carfax go elsewhere.
On a side note those buy here pay here lots are shady as fuck, i wouldnt buy a piece of bubble gum from one. There are a ton of those lots around me and i could talk for days

 

Something just seems weird about it to me...

 

That's what I'm thinking about the Carfax.

 

This is what I was thinking also

 

Some dealers use one or the other and I'm sure they don't want to pay for both. With that said look at the other vehicles on the lot to see if they all use the same service. If some others have carfax then I'd run away.

For what it's worth our carmax dealer here uses autocheck. They claim it to be better, idk, just 2 different services which complicates things IMO.

 

Sucks because this one is the nicest one I've come across in my price range... 08 with less than 35k on it. Excellent condition

 

$18900

 

My bad. I meant $20990

 

Just checked their inventory on their site. The Tacoma isn't even listed on the inventory. Only about 13 or 14 vehicles. Some have both Carfax and auto check reports. So I'm guessing its an autocheck report.