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Old 09-16-2009, 10:37 AM
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would CarFax tell me previous owner?

I haven't pulled one for years, and a dealer SA pulled one on my new (to me) car to confirm it was clean, but I ended up getting only one key with the car, and thought it might be worthwhile to check with previous owner to see if he/she still has another key.....
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Did you buy it from an MB dealer? If yes they should've supplied you with 2 keys.
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Did you buy it from an MB dealer?
no; bought it an auto auction. former lease car sold by Daimler Credit.
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If yes they should've supplied you with 2 keys.
yeah, I know. I probably saved $5000+ off the price a dealer would have wanted, but I do have a great SA at the dealership and he had reported to me that each of two auction cars I had asked him about had clean service records with MB....now that I think of it, he didn't have access to Carfax.
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Carfax will only tell you how many previous owners, but it will not give you a way to contact the previous owners.
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Yeah, I'd be happy to do the searching if I could get a name, but my car was leased, so I'd prolly not ever find name of lessee.
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Yeah, I'd be happy to do the searching if I could get a name, but my car was leased, so I'd prolly not ever find name of lessee.
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I wouldn't mind contacting the PO of my car either.

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