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A lot of car dealerships pick up cars at auctions. There isn't anything necessarily bad about that. Whether they bought it as green, yellow, or red light, though, is what determines whether it's bad or not. Usually the dealers won't buy anything other than green or yellow, but preferably green.
The main thing you want to check for with carfax reports is junk status on the title or mileage rollbacks for the odometer. The junk status is usually if the car was in a wreck, maybe flooded, or something of that sort where the car was essentially discarded. For mileage rollbacks, it's hard to tell with newer cars since they tend to have less of a service record.
The car could have been registered as a fleet vehicle for a variety of reasons. I'm not sure if rental cars count as fleet vehicles or not. It could have been for some other corporate use that wasn't rental, though. Just because it's a fleet vehicle doesn't make it bad. It's still a Honda.
Didn't the dealership offer to pull up a carfax report before you bought it? That's something they should have offered to you. They will pretty much always pull up reports on the cars before they buy them at auctions, or maybe soon after they by them at auctions, so usually they have them on hand. Hindsight is always 20/20, but you should always check a carfax report before buying a used car. Some dealerships will provide them for free.
Just why do you want a picture of the interior? Do you suspect something was done with it?
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05-10-2002, 02:54 PM
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