On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, George Goff wrote:

> You can use a Car-Fax report when you go to the bathroom for all of its
> ability to keep someone from doing a number on you.  Anyone bent on fraud has
> little trouble making the necessary adjustments to produce a pristine Car-Fax
> record.

As amply demonstrated by all the people on this mailing list who have
successfully gotten new, "clean" titles for vans they bought without a
title.  You could easily use the same process to "fix" a vehicle that had
a salvage title or odometer discrepencies.

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