Re: Carfax, Buying Used, & Craigslist.org

"Pszemol" <Pszemol@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> Don't forget you are not talking about the car for 
> yourself but for Elle.
> She might be somebody's grandmother :-) Or - just a driver 
> little more educated in benefits of modern car safety 
> systems than you...

Not to contradict you, but to get out my puny view: I have 
been restricting my search to older cars partly (very small 
part) because I do not want ABS. ABS is harder to maintain; 
has more that can go wrong; and I do not see significant 
advantage from a safety standpoint.

I have always had a car without ABS.

I would prefer airbags but I am not requiring them.

> I am not talking about cosmetic rust but undercariage 
> rust, ball joints, etc.
> Once again, I have to remind you that your advices are 
> addressed to Elle.

I think JBeam is recalling, correctly, that I am in the 
southwest. No rust in general, though a few of the cars I 
have seen are from up north and show rust.

I finally read the fine print on carfax.com's connection to 
dealers: Every time a dealer looks up a vehicle history on 
carfax, the lookup goes into their system as a car that 
/might/ be traded in or just got sold. I think it would be 
luck to run across a Honda through this approach. I really 
do not trust the salespeople there to call me as soon as 
another 92-95 Civic comes in. They deal in the here and now. 
A phone call does not seem to be worth it to them.