When I bought a car a couple of years ago, I got a CARFAX report for it prior to buying and it didn't reveal any problems with the car — no accidents or anything. Then someone recommended that I check it with other services as well. I searched my VIN number through the Internet and found a lot of similar VIN reporting websites that are not only much cheaper, but also showed that the car had been in an accident and even provided photos of the damages. I'll never use CARFAX again!

 

Obviously, I understand that. My problem is much more serious than a hit and run.
See for yourself, there's been a big accident, that CARFAX somehow didn't report

There's the clean CARFAX I got, as I was buying my old RAM

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u9med1oe4o...00252.pdf?dl=0

And that's the report I trust. I bought I got into serious trouble servicing the car

https://www.epicvin.com/en/check-vin...8c798f2120f5d6

 

As far as I know, CARFAX gets some of their info from companies that are not responsible for the information provided. My friend who works for the government told me only NMVTIS is responsible for any information that is provided on VIN number decoding. It turns out that the information provided by CARFAX is not verified. What is even more interesting (BUT THAT'S PURELY MY GUESS) is that CARFAX might have some kind of agreement with dealers and provides deliberately negative information in their reports when buying a car from a person, and then resells it with a clean CARFAX for a higher price... You should think about it!