Is this website legit?
Why is it free?
Does anybody have a Carfax to compare they data they use?
they are legit, but they almost never show the full story. I have directly compared their reports with CarFax on my own cars and CarFax has substantially more information.
>>17889845
still a good place to start being free and all
They dont always pick up on car history
I was looking up a surprisingly inexpensive Honda Prelude from craigslist a month ago and Vehicle history said it had a clean title and no history of accidents. Then I checked NICB and Carfax. NICB lists it as a salvage title and Carfax said it had 3 previous accidents and 10 previous owners.
Needless to say, I steered clear of that car. If i trusted Vehiclehistory, I would never have known until it was too late
This is going to be free until they hit a certain amount of users and then roll out pay services. They want to get a userbase before they try to fuck 'em.
Was nervous about my first car and bought the Carfax just to be more sure about anything wrong with it. Carfax showed the accident it's been in plus some of the maintenance history, VehicleHistory showed most of the info, but not the maintenance/repairs or accident. VehicleHistory didn't know the car was a rental for one of the owners.
>>17890620
VehicleHistory report for same car
>>17889744
>Why is it free?
Because in return for giving you some service, you stress test their website. The requests also show what type of requests come in. Those requests can be compared to the same request results from other database sites. They can thus tune what types of data they need to buy to be complete enough to satisfy the types of requests they typically get. Doing it that way would help them from buying too much data or too little data. Being too complete is a waste of money after all.