Re: Carfax, Buying Used, & Craigslist.org

"Pszemol" <Pszemol@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> "Elle" <honda.lioness@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> At this point, clean and relatively unmolested is worth 
>> another grand or two to me. I can deal with high mileage 
>> (say 70k - 170k miles).
>
> Are you serious? This is what you call high-mileage
> for a 89-97 civic? Even taking the youngest from your
> model year list it is 11-12 years of service...
> Average mileage is 12000 miles per year, so you should
> on average expect 1997 to have 140k or more...
> Not mentioning 1989 :-)

? What is inconsistent with what I wrote? Of course 70k is 
rare, but I saw a 1995 with 55k miles on ebay this morning 
(it checks out with Carfax). I see a 95 with 177k tomorrow. 
It too  checks out with Carfax.


>> I am wondering if there is a quicker way of getting this 
>> info out of Carfax, rather than putting in a VIN and 
>> seeing the ads pop up.
>
> There is an option to be notify with e-mail message
> when the car shows up listed in the range of model
> years / trims you selected...
> My subscription expired already I cannot check it for you.

I tried the used car search engine carfax.com and it seems 
to pull up strictly dealers' offerings. But the darn dealers 
do not say a word about when the car came in, when it sold, 
etc.