Nightmonkey
Well-Known Member
@Cobra Jet
For US vehicles / VINs you can use Carfax over here without any problems.
Like you say, the Google search for the VINs of the offered US vehicles also regularly leads to the pictures from the auctions incl. the knowledge of what the damaged vehicle has raised in the auction.
The problem with the repaired total losses here is really just a problem with US imports.
In the case of EU vehicles, you can usually find out from the previous owners, authorized workshops or the insurance system whether the car has been in an accident. But you don't get such a nice report as with Carfax.
However, you can apparently hide total losses from Carfax (move them to other states, etc.).
But you have to know all that!
For most people here e.g. Carfax is unknown.
If you do not inform yourself in the Internet and in the relevant Internet forums, then you go there fast times into the trap, and wonder on the next Mustang meeting that all insiders are astonished about it, how well the Eastern Europeans are at smoothing the wrinkles.
There is always someone there who quickly enters the VIN on Google if you can recognize the vehicle as a US import.
Here is also an issue that such vehicles are then gladly "brokered on behalf of individuals".
Dealers have to give at least 12 month of warranty here, in this way it is tried to circumvent this.
For example, I had once tracked a total loss vehicle, that was offered at a dealer around the corner, that had fetched just under $10,000 in the auction, and was then offered for 35,000 € after repair. This was a 2019 GT PP1* (*I asume) without leather and without sync with low mileage, which has been damaged all around. If you don't track the VIN, this could be a tempting offer.
For US vehicles / VINs you can use Carfax over here without any problems.
Like you say, the Google search for the VINs of the offered US vehicles also regularly leads to the pictures from the auctions incl. the knowledge of what the damaged vehicle has raised in the auction.
The problem with the repaired total losses here is really just a problem with US imports.
In the case of EU vehicles, you can usually find out from the previous owners, authorized workshops or the insurance system whether the car has been in an accident. But you don't get such a nice report as with Carfax.
However, you can apparently hide total losses from Carfax (move them to other states, etc.).
But you have to know all that!
For most people here e.g. Carfax is unknown.
If you do not inform yourself in the Internet and in the relevant Internet forums, then you go there fast times into the trap, and wonder on the next Mustang meeting that all insiders are astonished about it, how well the Eastern Europeans are at smoothing the wrinkles.
There is always someone there who quickly enters the VIN on Google if you can recognize the vehicle as a US import.
Here is also an issue that such vehicles are then gladly "brokered on behalf of individuals".
Dealers have to give at least 12 month of warranty here, in this way it is tried to circumvent this.
For example, I had once tracked a total loss vehicle, that was offered at a dealer around the corner, that had fetched just under $10,000 in the auction, and was then offered for 35,000 € after repair. This was a 2019 GT PP1* (*I asume) without leather and without sync with low mileage, which has been damaged all around. If you don't track the VIN, this could be a tempting offer.
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