getting car history not carfax

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Limeybastard

A little secret... I bought the car last wednesday with 15XX miles on her, now she has 23XX miles. I dont even use it for commute.

MacCool

Limey, are you concerned that the car was perhaps returned under the Lemon Law or repeated-but-failed repair issues? That would make sense and be a valid concern IMHO. One does have to wonder why it was for sale at 1500 miles.

Limeybastard

Exactly, well said. I dont think it was returned under the lemon law as the booklet ( florida one ) came with the service wallet which also included the previous owners name and date of purchase. The lemon law booklet has spaces for the amount of times the car came in for such work ( all empty ) the car was purchased at Pearsons Nissan in Ocala, and then traded in at Love Chevorlet in Homossa which is also close to that area.

I even found a google cache copy of my car for sale at Love Chevorlet stating that it was a local trade in which sounds about right. Then the car I am assuming was sold to my local Mazda dealer approx 20 miles away from Love Cheverolet. The Z had just been delivered that day and was not even detailed when I bought it. The previous owner was a married man of 52 year of age that I do know from looking up his name and details courtesy of them leaving it in one of the pages of the Florida Lemon Law agreement that he signed at the time of purchase from originating dealer Pearson Nissan of Ocala.

I used to work in the bodyshop industry many years ago back in England, UK. I have reviewed all bolts screws and areas where I assumed collision repair and could not identify anything that has been changed. I will be using a PTG device on Monday to be sure, however.

Going back to what you said about trading in a vehicle at 1500 miles, that is IMHO also a red flag hence my caution. I guess coming from primarily a BMW background, that is what I owned and drove many in the UK It came as a suprise to find "factory" faults in body and also some other areas in a few Japanese cars that I have owned since living in the USA. Example, my previous ride a 2013 Mazdaspeed 3 which had 2 miles on the ODO, after detailing that car, I did notice a couple of dust particles in the hood. Albeit they were the size of a sharp pencil tip and acceptable under the words "factory tolerence" I guess LOL.

Appart from the few issues I posted earlier the Z seems to be good to go. My main concern was the thread about the rear light gaps which raised all this initially.

SouthArk370Z

More of a yellow flag than a red one, IMNSHO. Lots of "early turnover" on Big Boy Toys (boats, sports cars, ATVs, &c). Still possible that it's a wreck or lemon, but there are lots of good reasons for a low mileage trade-in.

Since you have some bodywork experience and have made a through inspection without finding any evidence of repairs, I'd guess that someone bought the car and then decided it was too small or fast or expensive or whatever.

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Fountainhead

Hey Limey,

My Z was 2009 with 11K on it. When I got it I had a 150 mile/5 day return window, so I took it to our shop and we went over it with a fine tooth comb, didn't find any nuts shiny, paints, nothing had ever been taken off/on the car, even had original tires. Even the paint was pristine, minimum swirls, appeared to have been hand washed it's entire life. I got under it and there was even very little grease spun out from the diff joints. So, it is possible to find a cherry once in a while. The CarFax listed two owners, originally sold in GA and then resold here in FL.
While I don't give Carfax that much credit, it's nice to have an apparently clean bill of health anyway.
The salesman told me a pregnant woman traded it in for a van.....I just looked at him and said oh wow. I don't believe anything a car salesman says.

PS: My wife and I bought a 2007 Santa Fe with 600 miles on it, the salesman told me a woman brought it back for another color....7 years later still no problems with it. Of course we got factory warranty.