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Originally Posted by Dion
A vehicles VIN number can give you a lot of info about the vehicles history. It can determine a car's entire history - where it's been registered, if it's branded salvage or rebuilt and if there are any collisions. Doing that can save a buyer a lot of grief before he/she buys.
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That has nothing to do with maintenance records, I'm not sure how it relates to my post.
Now, even a VIN search won't give you all the facts. I had a car that I know was in 3 claimed, at fault accidents. When I went to sell it, I did a VIN search through several different sources ( I can only remember using CarProof, there was another one too). Nothing comes up. To the potential buyer there is nothing to be concerned about. I wanted the information to provide full disclosure when selling it. I just had to verbally notify the purchaser, who thinks the worst, when infact all the damage was cosmetic and repaired.
I'm not to sure why nothing was returned on a VIN search. I was told that it could be because I was the original owner and only when the car is sold/re-registered is that information provided to the database. Someone else may know more about this.