I am looking at some newer lower mileage used cars for my wife for a daily driver to replace her Saturn. Some are I know are salvage vehicles and some not so sure. I am mainly interested in checking for mileage that is correct or any unusual pattern of ownership.

I found two sites that do a search. Carfax and autocheck. Carfax is unlimited use for 30 days while autocheck is for 60 days. Are there any other sites?

Thanks - John

I am interested in this info as well. But for older cars, not newer.

Anyone have any info?

I once joined both and compared, there was no difference at least for the cars I checked. The info is only as good as what was reported to the state or states where it has been registered. If soneone was in a wreck and fixed it themself and did not report it, you'd have no way to know. One thing I learned is to watch out for a vehicle that came from the northeast (where roads are salted) and is now in the northwest - or was in the southeast
(where there was flooding) and is now in the southwest. A used vehicle is really not worth shipping that far for a wholesaler unless they are trying to hide something. On a former rental car, be careful if it's a muscle/sport/SUV
as it may have been beat to death by the various renters. With a compact, more conservative car such as Camry, Accord, or Mazda you can get a good deal. My daughter got an '03 Protege with 25k miles still under warranty to 48,000 for a couple of thouand under what dealers wanted for trade ins, and has had no trouble with it (2 years now).

You cannot find such a service on classics. They go by vin # and the format on our 60s/70s cars is a much shorter number so you just get an error message.

Really? So if I signed up for carfax, it would be useless since it wouldn't work?

Bummer!

Im not sure on any other sites. I know on carfax they don't do older cars (not sure what year change) but newer cars have 17 numbers in the vin. and the older cars have 13.