Can someone run a vin# ?
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
I wanted to get a carfax report or something on this car I was thinking about getting for a little x-mas present...
I heard that somepeople on forums can get free reports.
If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.
I heard that somepeople on forums can get free reports.
If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.
I've got a CarFax account, and I'll run that Vin for you....But you supply the leash
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
Originally Posted by mouserider
That car propped up against the wall of that house is just wild! I guess he popped the clutch a little hard. 
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
Originally Posted by mouserider
Of course you're entitled to your opinion and there are those that share your position and as there are others who share my position on the matter.
I agree that many on the forum, you and I included, who would not hesitate to help another, but there's a way to ask and a better way to ask, especially when asking for something that cost someone else money, how ever little that cost may be.
As you have mentioned in your message, "sharing" the service is ultimately self-defeating as it may cause the company to raise the prices or restrict the use, so in the end, it just hurts the consumer if the consumer's goal is to save money.
I believe that the consumers goal should be to pay the right and reasonable price for a service, not to pay nothing for something. At some level, we're always both the consumer and the provider, with the exception of the privileged few, we have to earn a living before we can consume and for most of us, to earn a living relies on others consuming.
What goes around, comes around at some point.
As for buying and selling cars, it is quite customary for the seller of the car to provide proof that the car is in good condition, and one of the best modern ways is with a report like those from CarFax.
Before there were services like carfax, the seller is always the one that has to show that the odo wasn't tampered with or rolled back and it's the sellers responsibility not to mis-represent the sale, never the buyers responsibility.
Though the "buyer beware" caution always exists.
As for the magazine analogy posed by Blue Pearl, I don't think it is wrong at all to borrow something you can return but if I decide that the magazine contains an article I really like, I would not hesitate to buy it. If it is offered to me, I might just take it but I wouldn't ask for it to begin with, but again, that's just me.
When it comes to a carfax report, you can't exactly borrow it and return it so like nox1s's comment on my CD analogy, I don't think this analogy is perfect either.
Doing a favor for a friend that I know, sure, totally, wouldn't hesitate but I think there is a difference when you post on an open forum asking "strangers" for something that cost them money, but again that's just my opinion and I'm just expressing it.
I'm actually even more surprised now that we're discovering he's buying a Mini and asking for a free report in a Crossfire forum.
I work in the service industry and like many people in the business, I make my living providing people with reports and knowledge that can very easily be passed from one person to another, so I'm definitely in the camp that says it's bad form to not expect to pay for something that you will derive value from.
I agree that many on the forum, you and I included, who would not hesitate to help another, but there's a way to ask and a better way to ask, especially when asking for something that cost someone else money, how ever little that cost may be.
As you have mentioned in your message, "sharing" the service is ultimately self-defeating as it may cause the company to raise the prices or restrict the use, so in the end, it just hurts the consumer if the consumer's goal is to save money.
I believe that the consumers goal should be to pay the right and reasonable price for a service, not to pay nothing for something. At some level, we're always both the consumer and the provider, with the exception of the privileged few, we have to earn a living before we can consume and for most of us, to earn a living relies on others consuming.
What goes around, comes around at some point.
As for buying and selling cars, it is quite customary for the seller of the car to provide proof that the car is in good condition, and one of the best modern ways is with a report like those from CarFax.
Before there were services like carfax, the seller is always the one that has to show that the odo wasn't tampered with or rolled back and it's the sellers responsibility not to mis-represent the sale, never the buyers responsibility.
Though the "buyer beware" caution always exists.
As for the magazine analogy posed by Blue Pearl, I don't think it is wrong at all to borrow something you can return but if I decide that the magazine contains an article I really like, I would not hesitate to buy it. If it is offered to me, I might just take it but I wouldn't ask for it to begin with, but again, that's just me.
When it comes to a carfax report, you can't exactly borrow it and return it so like nox1s's comment on my CD analogy, I don't think this analogy is perfect either.
Doing a favor for a friend that I know, sure, totally, wouldn't hesitate but I think there is a difference when you post on an open forum asking "strangers" for something that cost them money, but again that's just my opinion and I'm just expressing it.
I'm actually even more surprised now that we're discovering he's buying a Mini and asking for a free report in a Crossfire forum.
I work in the service industry and like many people in the business, I make my living providing people with reports and knowledge that can very easily be passed from one person to another, so I'm definitely in the camp that says it's bad form to not expect to pay for something that you will derive value from.
The old ethos just isn't understood by some...
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
Originally Posted by MiniCooperS
The Vin is for a Z not a mini and i wasnt aware that I should do to a mini forum for a favor over a crossfire forum bud. Thats what one of your members here posted.. Kinda puts a ignorant snobby vibe on this forum as a whole... WOW im impressed...
1) A Crossfire owner
2) Checking a Crossfire VIN
I speak from experience having asked for the same thing and gotten positive replies in a matter of minutes. Note: I have seen some of your less than favorable post on the Crossfire......Think Karma may have something to do with it ????????
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
Originally Posted by mouserider
That car propped up against the wall of that house is just wild! I guess he popped the clutch a little hard.
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
I have to agree. I too have read a few of Minicoopers replies to a few posts. His posts are not usually constructive and are not what I personnally like to view on the Crossfire Forum. 
Sooooo, as the song sez..........
HIT THE ROAD JACK AND DON'T YOU COME BACK NO MORE NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE. HIT THE ROAD JACK AND DON'T YOU COME BACK NO MORE.
Sooooo, as the song sez..........
HIT THE ROAD JACK AND DON'T YOU COME BACK NO MORE NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE. HIT THE ROAD JACK AND DON'T YOU COME BACK NO MORE.
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From: slc ut
Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
hopefully this is a good time for me t ask about this vin for a CROSSFIRE that i serioulsy plan to buy very soon!!!
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...ice=&cardist=5
1C3AN69L24X005403
thanks in advance
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...ice=&cardist=5
1C3AN69L24X005403
thanks in advance
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
Originally Posted by RMADERMAN
I have to agree. I too have read a few of Minicoopers replies to a few posts. His posts are not usually constructive and are not what I personnally like to view on the Crossfire Forum.
Sooooo, as the song sez..........
HIT THE ROAD JACK AND DON'T YOU COME BACK NO MORE NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE. HIT THE ROAD JACK AND DON'T YOU COME BACK NO MORE.
Sooooo, as the song sez..........
HIT THE ROAD JACK AND DON'T YOU COME BACK NO MORE NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE. HIT THE ROAD JACK AND DON'T YOU COME BACK NO MORE.
lol Yeah I guess the name Minicooper does not make up for their shortcomings
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
Originally Posted by sub zero
hopefully this is a good time for me t ask about this vin for a CROSSFIRE that i serioulsy plan to buy very soon!!!
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...ice=&cardist=5
1C3AN69L24X005403
thanks in advance
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...ice=&cardist=5
1C3AN69L24X005403
thanks in advance
What more could you want?
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
I hope all of you have some thing really bad happen to you. I swear it.. I do have a Crossfire. its an 05 limited, black, 6 speed. STOCK...
My first car was a mini cooper S and I created an account on here to look into getting one. I guess that not every owner of a crossfire is a *** but most of the people on here that treat me like crap are. I would love to meet you in person and see how much of a big guy you are after all.
My first car was a mini cooper S and I created an account on here to look into getting one. I guess that not every owner of a crossfire is a *** but most of the people on here that treat me like crap are. I would love to meet you in person and see how much of a big guy you are after all.
Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
Originally Posted by MiniCooperS
I hope all of you have some thing really bad happen to you. I swear it.. I do have a Crossfire. its an 05 limited, black, 6 speed. STOCK...
My first car was a mini cooper S and I created an account on here to look into getting one. I guess that not every owner of a crossfire is a *** but most of the people on here that treat me like crap are. I would love to meet you in person and see how much of a big guy you are after all.
My first car was a mini cooper S and I created an account on here to look into getting one. I guess that not every owner of a crossfire is a *** but most of the people on here that treat me like crap are. I would love to meet you in person and see how much of a big guy you are after all.
Ohhh! Calling people ****
Paid a trip to the junior high recently?
Can't believe I stuck up for you, I take back everything I said in your defense. You're no better.
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
It appears from this thread that different cars/trucks attract different owners, as a former owner of a Concorde, the list I subscribed to constantly ran Carfax reports for owners or "soon to be " owners, If I was a subscriber it would be no skin off my nose or elsewhere to accommadate someone that is interested in vehicle that is relevent to the list.
As to snide comments, I have stopped reading the Sportster list, after 5 years. because of the raging controversy over SIG lines, and nothing constructive about the bike. List denigration is a poison slowly eating away at the subscribers and chasing away visitors.
As to snide comments, I have stopped reading the Sportster list, after 5 years. because of the raging controversy over SIG lines, and nothing constructive about the bike. List denigration is a poison slowly eating away at the subscribers and chasing away visitors.
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Re: Can someone run a vin# ?
I'll add my 2 cents about CarFax reports. Don't waste your money. Back in May my daughter bought a used Hyundai Sonata. Several months later her husband to be is looking to buy a ued Dodge Ram and they decided to spend the money and run the Dodge Ram Vin# on CarFax. While they were at it, they ran the Sonata's VIN# also and both came back with clean reports. About a month ago, the daughter goes to a Hyundai stealorship to trade up to a new 08 Sonata and take advantage of the 72 month 0% fianancing, now that she has graduated and has a good paying job. The dealer runs an AutoCheck report and it comes back that the car was in an accident in 2006 and suffered subframe damage. The dealer puts her car on a rack in the service area to verify the accuracy, and yes there was evidence of damage. Although, the bodyshop man examining this said that whoever repaired it did a very good job, the dealer would only offer her $6K on trade in. So for now she is pretty much stuck with the 06 for a while.
So I think from now on I will run AutoCheck reports instead of Carfax.
So I think from now on I will run AutoCheck reports instead of Carfax.