Carfax report

[Team Canada]

(I waffled between sticking this in OT or Trading Post, and won't be offended if another mod decides it should be in the latter)

Looking at purchasing a used car and just thought I'd check whether anyone has a bulk Carfax membership, or you bought the package of 5 and have some left? I'm fine with compensating you, it's just the $35 for 1 is a bit steep (although not in the context of spending thousands on the actual car).

[GormanHarvey]

(I waffled between sticking this in OT or Trading Post, and won't be offended if another mod decides it should be in the latter)

Looking at purchasing a used car and just thought I'd check whether anyone has a bulk Carfax membership, or you bought the package of 5 and have some left? I'm fine with compensating you, it's just the $35 for 1 is a bit steep (although not in the context of spending thousands on the actual car).

 

Can't help you with the membership, but I assume you asked the dealer to provide you with the report free of charge? Most reputable dealers will...

[Team Canada]

Good point.

[DatHoser]

I went through Carsoup and all the dealers I looked at cars through had the carfax included online. If the car you're looking at is through a dealer, you may want to go there and see if you can look at the carfax that way.

[Crew2323]

Also, often times cars that are listed on cars.com or autotrader.com will have free carfax reports included.

[JackNicholson1974]

I have bought two used cars in the pat 6 weeks. I bought a carfax package of 5 but only used about 2 before it expired (you have 30 days to use them). I used cars.com, kbb.org and cargurus.com while shopping. I recommend all 3. I found most larger dealerships offered free carfax reports.

[Team Canada]

In case anyone's interested, if you list the car on ebay (for an insane price, of course), you can then pull up the report (for any listing) and see it that way.

 

That car ended up being shady, but I found the same as people are mentioning here, most large dealers will give it to you for free.