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| | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 227 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 227 | one worry about purchasing older vehicles is the distance from home that you find your buy sometimes. Found this site: http://www.carchex.com/ and for about $100 they will go and inspect a vehicle and provide a detailed report of vehicle condition and report it back to you. could save a lot of time and hassle bacause you know how sellers like to leave out certian negative details and all. I sure wish I heard of these guys before i bought my truck! and i dont work for them, just thought this might be helpfull to someone. I know if i buy again away from home i'll be using this service! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | sounds to good to be true but
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,682 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,682 | I seem to recall Patrick66 offers a simular service for vehicles in the OKC area.
Pros and cons to that sort of service.
The pros would definately be that if you have real concerns that the seller is being less than honest about the condition of the vehicle, having an independant third party to look it over, provide additional details and insight on the vehicles condition would put your mind at ease.
The only con I could think of, is if the vehicle is something really cool you're thinking of buying real cheap, the "inspector" could buy it out from under you.. and you just paid him to do it.
For $100 flat fee, my guess is that outfit just contracts with a local shop or garage in the area the vehicle is in, and pays them a $50 cut or something.
Nothing but upside for the CarCHex folks.. because not only do they hit you for $100 to look at the vehicle, but they add that report to their database and sell the same report to anybody else who asks for $25.
Seems like a service you'd only want to use if the vehicle was a real high dollar item.. probably wouldn't want to spend $100 to have somebody check out a $1200 vehicle.. at least *I* wouldnt.
an idea is only stupid if you think about it rationally.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | I might be concerned whether or not the vehicle is checked out,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yup,, lost a lot of trust in people thru out the yrs..
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | |
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