Car Fax - how infallible ??

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Conase wrote:

> Read an article on Florida flood cars coming to PA for resale .
> They make Car Fax sound like it is INFALLIBLE.

Which it is not. I proved that to myself by Carfaxing a car I'd owned
since new.

> Can't people BYPASS Car Fax and sell flood cars ?

Surely. It's easy.

> They make it sound like once a car is FLOODED OUT or damaged in any
> other way that it ALWAYS ends up on Car Fax report

Completely false. Most of the time, ownership transfers and other
state-controlled functions (sometimes including safety and/or emission
tests) show up on Carfax. Accidents, floods, etc. do NOT reliably show up
in Carfax; there's no means by which for them to do so.

DS