Comments on: 3 Smart Ways to Check a Used Car for Water Damage

By: Tris

Tris — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:04:27 +0000

Is it the sellers responsibility to provide a carfax report?

By: Lea mae

Lea mae — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:24:07 +0000

In every water damage, I'm sure there are mold cleanup that should be done. We've experience that last year when the typhoon hit our town very hard. Our car was soaked into the flood and molds are everywhere.

By: dan s

dan s — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:35:13 +0000

Yes! What a huge failure “cash for clunkers” was! I read that with all the government expenses in the program it cost taxpayers over $10,000 for every new car that was bought. The program especially hit lower income people the worst because it destroyed a million or so used cars, and most of those could have been used by lower income people like me that cannot afford $20,000 or more for a new car but can afford $5k-$10k for a solid used car. The total value of each used car was wasted/destroyed and what was left was scrap value. This is not the way the government should be intervening in the marketplace—the government destroyed billions of dollars in value and drove up the cost of used cars, and left many lower income people with greater expenses or no car at all!

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:29:52 +0000

Yeah, one has to be really careful when buying a used car – careful both about the seller and the dealer. It is not about being tricked,but about being cautious so that you don’t fall into any trouble and have to regret later. Self checks of eh car also help. The page at [link removed by admin] talks about what the things we should keep note of when buying a car, starting from the budget and the price.

By: Duktapekid

Duktapekid — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:09:15 +0000

If the truth were actually known, any car worth over a grand or so would be written off by the insurance company, mostly as “unrebuildable” , for parts only, because that type of damage costs more to repair than a car is worth. If it was written off, but “rebuildable” it would be marked on the Title as a Salvage Brand from then on. It only takes around 65% of a car’s value in damage to write it off. Or if it was uninsured it could happen, but a car not worth insuring certainly would not be worth doing all those repairs to put it back on the road. These horror stories are just to make you paranoid about the evil used car dealers so you’ll by brand new cars. Makes about as much sense as crushing millions of perfectly good cars a couple years ago ( cash for clunkers )so you’d by new ones for a few months. All that did was wreck milions of perfectly good mid-range used cars and vans, take them out of the used car system, and put thousands of auto related businesses out of business. Now the same used car that was worth $1500 2 years ago is worth twice as much today, because the supply is down so much. I think it’ll take another 10 years to get that auto industry back to where it was, it cost 1000′s of people their jobs in auto repair shops, body & mechanical, used car lots out of business, as well as auctions, auto parts, salvage yards ( after a few good months), and pretty well screwed small used car lots, you know, the businesses that are the ” backbone ” of our country.