VIN Reports
I was reading the news yesterday and there was a law passed in California that requires dealers to run history reports on vehicles – then the fee is passed on to the consumer in the form of a doc fee. I checked out the government’s website and it had the list of the sites dealers could use for history reports. AutoCheck and CarFax is not on there, probably because of how expensive they are. They actually have a history report you can pull for $3.50. So I started pulling them on several of our vehicles because you really cannot beat that price. The only thing I don’t really like about them is it contains the same information that you would get by looking at the title. Anyway, feel free to have a look at them they are listed on almost each vehicle page. We’ve come across 2 so far that didn’t have a report available – which made me wonder, if it’s a requirement and it’s not available, how does that work?