The 2002 Accord five hours away?
I originally found my current cheap cat for $110 and it seemed to last two years. It would have been under warranty, but I am not the original owner. I have since found it for $86 and if it lasts two and a half years I will be out $2.87 a month.
If I were to purchase another Accord, why not this one about three hours away? One year newer than mine, but two years older than the other one, and it shows the sides! Also, it has the aluminum wheels that I have always wanted!
Somehow it has half the mileage of the other one.
https://phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/c...693204827.html
Actually, I think it is more likely you will find a Honda driven 45,000 miles a year than 4,500.
It says that it is rebuilt, which is not great. I searched for the VIN and all that I really found was this:
https://offerup.com/item/detail/541116077/
It includes this detail not shared on Craigslist:
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Restored title- was clean until the person selling it messed up on the notary portion on the back. The DMV has to make a duplicate and had it restored. I provided VIN so you can check history. No accidents. No anything.
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People mess up, but the rest of that story does not make any sense. I used five different sites to check the VIN and no, it did not show any accidents, thefts, or anything.
Not even sales.
Right now I am just curious, but I cannot imagine a legitimate reason for an absence of sales.
I found the random comment "If $24 makes the difference on whether you purchase the car you should not own a car." That person received upvotes, but imagine if I had not been able to find out the following information without paying, or I paid a mechanic $24 to inspect it and found a deal-breaker that I could not have recognized on my own?
Some reddit post said to substitute your VIN in this URL:
https://www.melraptonhonda.com/templ...cg6694yc017152
It shows an accident on 03/05/2017. Well, there you go, the seller is lying.
It shows eleven odometer readings, while the others showed zero, although they had places for them.
It had 92,101 miles on 12/29/2006.
Huh.
Almost twelve years ago it had more 10,000 miles than now.
On 04/12/2017 the car had 260,352 miles.
It was apparently totaled on 03/05/2017, and on 09/07/2017 it had 78,384 miles. On Xistday 2018 (03/23) it had 78,000 miles, so it accrued 115 miles or fewer in six and a half months and they rounded down?
So, it sat for six months before someone rebuilt it and another six months before they got the rebuilt title, and somewhere in there some esteemed DMV professional said "That's wrong, but I don't care?"
The detailed vehicle history supports that. Apparently on Xistday they registered it and passed emissions.
Good news everyone! I found out how to get good free VIN checks!
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