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1) are you sure you entered the correct VIN (read directly from the VIN plate, not from a piece of paper) ?
2) carfax only reports what it has. Maybe info has not been reported by the dealer/repair facility/dmv over the years
3) age - was carfax widespread in 1990-91?
1) are you sure you entered the correct VIN (read directly from the VIN plate, not from a piece of paper) ?
2) carfax only reports what it has. Maybe info has not been reported by the dealer/repair facility/dmv over the years
3) age - was carfax widespread in 1990-91?
Yes i took a picture of the vin and the car has a license plate that is registered to the vehicle but no DMV records show on the report
Hello im possibly going to buy this 1991 Plumouth Acclaim but when i did a carfax report nothing shows up for sales history,mileage or anything except the plant it was made and the details of the car. What is going on? Was it stolen? The seller apparently owned it all these years. Very weird
Thanks
I ran into this problem too but I found out it was a European car with German VIN built by an American-owned factory.
Age wouldn't matter. One of my cars is mid '80's and carfax shows records back to when it was new and titled.
Really it comes down to what is reported to carfax. Not everything is.
That's interesting. I was the original owner of a late 70s Pontiac T/A. Even though I never drove it in the winter, it developed some rust issues. At the time, 20+ years ago, I wasn't in a position to properly address the issues, and I didn't want to just let the car continue to deteriorate, so I was thinking of what to do.
One of the guys who was a co-worker of my wife's, and lived "out in the country", was also a "car guy", and at an employee gathering, he told me that the Chevy dealer out where he lived, had a side business in classic cars. Long story short, I made a deal with this Chevy dealer, trading the T/A for a new Corvette, in 2001.
Years later, I wondered whatever happened to the T/A, and long story short, I did locate the car. It had wound up across the country, at another shop that dealt in classic muscle cars. HOWEVER, this is the deal....those older cars, I forget exactly what year it occurred, went from a 13 digit VIN to an 18 digit VIN, and most of the "VIN search" websites aren't set up to search the shorter VINs.
I happened to stumble on a site that could accommodate the short VINs. I also found the information on my former car to be a little sketchy. For instance, my ownership, consisting of the first 25 years of the car's existence (10/76-8/01), was not recorded. The next 6 years weren't noted, either. Then beginning in 2007 a trail between Arizona, Nebraska, and Montana appeared, taking it to around 2018.
So, as previously stated, the info on a used car can indeed, be sketchy......
Some states allow free plate lookup on the state inspection history.
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