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Flood-damaged cars spilling into NC

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Was looking at CarMax for a late model Honda Pilot and found when IO checked the CarFax for these vehicles that all appeared to have been registered in NY or NJ at the time of Sandy. There was no reference in the vehicle data sheets that they had been flood vehicles.

Deltawar
February 11, 2013 5:18 p.m.

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why would we contribute data to a national mv data base and then turn around and not use it? And we should trust our government to work for the people?

Stilllearnin
February 11, 2013 12:38 p.m.

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"Seems like Roy Cooper should be prosecuting these people who "clean" the titles."

Roy should prosecute himself for contributing to the presence of the criminal illegals.

whatelseisnew
February 8, 2013 5:08 p.m.

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"To the person who commented: I know a dealer who cuts the check engine light indicator. He then solders it to the oil light. Why? Because when you start your car the oil light & check engine light both come on briefly."

The WHY is... you expect to see the check engine light come on briefly and go out. By pulling the needed voltage from the oil light, you get the expected brief lighting of the check engine. However, if a real problem develops that would normally turn on that light, it will not now turn on.

whatelseisnew
February 8, 2013 5:07 p.m.

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When we were young and naive about 20 years ago, we bought a 2 or 3-year old used car from a big, name brand new/used car dealer. Car looked very nice, OK price. A few weeks later I noticed that all of the bolts under the front seat were rusted out. That "nice" salesman sure floated our boat. Learned our lesson.

PetulantHarbinger
February 8, 2013 5:07 p.m.

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So our LOVELY government does nothing to prevent this. Instead they focus on amnesty for criminals and would dearly love to take guns away from the entire population despite the constitution. So in addition to maybe getting a problem car, you might very well die and kill others out on the highway. It is great to hear they raised the speed limit on I540 so people will now run at 79 miles an hour figuring they will not get stopped. Hope they are not driving one of these things. I wonder how many children will die because of this nonsense. Our Government is the biggest danger to our lives.

whatelseisnew
February 8, 2013 5:05 p.m.

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To the person who commented: I know a dealer who cuts the check engine light indicator. He then solders it to the oil light. Why? Because when you start your car the oil light & check engine light both come on briefly. People are driving cars purchased from him that have problems they don't know about because the check engine light only comes on when there's an issue connected to the oil.

WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU NOT REPORT THIS PERSON?!?!?!?! That's called being responsible! Report him!

3TeensGrowinUp2Fast
February 8, 2013 3:20 p.m.

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Wow, how will you ever know when you buy a used car with model years 1995-2012 if it was in the darn floods from Sandy?! That's just insane. I guess more people will be buying new cars...wow.

3TeensGrowinUp2Fast
February 8, 2013 3:18 p.m.

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tedmcneill50: "If NC would check the database as 33 other states do, would this solve the problem here, or at least significantly reduce the chances for this fraud? If yes, shouldn't this law be changed?"

Sounds like something we should speak to our NC State Senators and Legislators about, huh? Best chance of getting this into law than we have had for some time.......

lasm
February 8, 2013 2:45 p.m.

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Seems like Roy Cooper should be prosecuting these people who "clean" the titles.

Life-goes-on.
February 8, 2013 11:19 a.m.

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