Carfax "minor fender bender"... food for thought.......

[Gthong]

I guess I have a little too much time on my hands right now... but I got to thinking... have you ever heard an "incident" report on carfax as any more than a "fender bender" by the cars owner?

heck.. it's even the excuse when the car has a salvage title for heavens sake!!!!

so the question is.... most of the people on this site ( and others) take a picture of there car everywhere it sits for more than 10 mins it seems.....

WHY THEN, DON'T THEY HAVE PICTURES OF THE 'MINOR FENDER BENDER: THE CAR WAS IN TO EARN THE CARFAX INCIDENT REPORT IN THE FIRST PLACE??

the single most significant event in the cars life... and no one has a picture????

not just true of NSX of course.. porsche guys and motorcycle guys ... the same way......

If I had an incident in my NSX... I'd have 50 pictures... and would be a permanent part of the cars records... good, bad, or indifferent...

my .02

 

[Lostbuckeye]

It's hard to take pictures with tears in your eyes and a straight jacket on. When I wrecked my 91 it took a few days for me to get some pictures. I was so sick about it I couldn't look at it. And I still have a hard time looking at the pictures.

 

[tof]

Pretty much every accident results in the bending of one or more fenders. So "fender bender" may be accurate, even when it is not really the truth.

 

[Gthong]

my point is...... every accident is described as "I got backed into in a parking lot" or "I ran over something"... but yet it shows up on carfax... if my car had ANY DAMAGE ever.... I'd get a picture to show the next prospective buyer... that it really was no big deal

if you don't have a picture... you should consider it a rather big event... IMHO

it's like a timing belt change... without a receipt... there was no timing belt change

 

[LuckyM]

Not many seller will be honest of their accidents cuz it would just devalue their cars.

 

[shawn110975]

I take pics I just had one a few months ago guy lane changes into my car heres the link
http://www.nsxprime.com/forum/showthread.php/172340-Oh-nooo-my-nsx-boo-boo

I even took pics of when I hit a construction cone at high speeds and it ripped the passenger mirror off like it was butter. posted in one fo my other build threads

 

[Gthong]

my point exacly....

buyer looks at carfax... sees an accident reported...
seller.... oh I just hit a parking block a couple years ago and had it fixed
buyer... or great.. lets see the picture!!!
seller... I didn't take one
Buyer... oh then you really ran off the road and jumped a ditch then!!!!! no picture.... magor accident

 

[vivanshah]

it's understandable if the accident took place 10+ years ago before the advent of smartphones and cameraphones. although even then I kept a disposable camera in the glovebox for such situations.

nowadays when there are cameras everywhere, i agree it is inexcusable.