Well the carfax said everything looked good on the car. Clean title no wrecks good service record. It was a Mazda 3. So I bought the car and it started acting funny. The rpms were all over the place they wouldn't hold and it ended up causing me to lose control in the winter do a 180 hitting a wall with the back end. It just scuffed the bumper and bent the exhaust a little(I was going maybe 20 mph). The dealer did the repair and took me around to look at it, showing where paint was under the door handle and how some emblems are missing but were found cleaning the vehicle under the seats. Apparently the car had been wrecked twice before me. I had to trade it in because nobody would buy it. Carfax, a complete waste of my money. I forgot this situation because it was about 5 years ago and paid for it again! Don't bother. Get a body shop to look at a car you want to buy.