Re: Carfax, Buying Used, & Craigslist.org

"Elle" <honda.lioness@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "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.

Then how do you know you "prefer" car without ABS?
It is like saying I do not like chocolate icecream
without trying them :-)

To apreciate ABS you need to own a car with one.
Until you drive cars without it you do not know 
what you are missing.
 
> 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.

Texas? Phoenix?
 
> 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. 

I was talking about daily e-mail from carfax.com, not dealers.