I just found my stolen car in CARFAX.com
 

YOu guys know what i just found out?

As i was playing with the CARFAX.com thing (as many of you are :p), out of curiousity, i type in the # of my stolen car a year ago. Guess what happen? The report never show it stolen. Furthermore, the car is registered 2 month after the car was stolen :eek:

my question is: How can someone register a car without my title (i still have to title at home) and why didn't the police report show up in DMV and CARFAX???!!!???:mad:

What do you guy think i should do? The car is register local, should i report to the police so i can get it back (i should have the police report back then)? What if the buyer didn't know it was a stolen car? will he or she lose their cars? This is too ridiculous......

Duh
 

Of course you should contact the police. DUH.
-Dan

Call the Po Po's and get your car back. The people that own it now will just have to understand that it was yours to begin with.

find out who stole it and break there fuckin legs! :mad:

Definetly contact the police first. Even though the car is legally yours you need to follow their rules and procedures for recovering the vehicle. Maybe if your lucky the current occupant of your car will have some good mods and a fresh coat of wax waiting for you.

This happened to my cousin. His Chevelle was stolen, the theives yanked the motor out, and sold the body. The kid that bought it put in a new motor and went to register it. When it came up stolen, the police confiscated it and gave it back to my cousin.
The only way they could have gotten a tag, is for the car to be older than the cutoff date for the title. Look to be in a long protracted legal battle if it is.

First thing, report this to the police - both here and in the town that the car is registered in.
Do not contact the people who registered it themselves.
You will need a copy of the stolen vehicle report and the title to show the police.

do NOT go see him on your own. You never know if he's the theif or some unsuspecting rube. If the current driver IS the theif, or a friend, they may want the car enough to do something rash.
Go get the cops and get your car back!

Cory Waters

And THEN break his fuckin legs!

Right now the problem is that i don't have a written report at my hand. All the report has been done through the phone. I know there is a report # assigned, but I don't have that # (i do back then, but lost it since it's over a year). Can I just call in and have them search using my name? What are the chances of me getting the report?

Furthermore, the insurance has already pay for the stolen vehicle since I have the comperhansive insurance on it. So either to get it back or not is not important to me.

The thing i concern the most is the safty of my neighborhood. I live near UCLA, which suppose to be a good neighborhood, but the car was stolen IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!

I think i will call police to request the report first, then see what happen.

thanks for advices though

Steal it back
 

Steal it back, do you still have the old keys lying around?

who needs keys?:D

Did you report it to your insurance company? Did you have comp on the car even? Well don't go see the people that have it registered, if they stole it chances are if you talk to them the car will "disappear" again just so they don't get in trouble. If insurance paid out on this car then they would get the car more than likely. If not and its all yours then go down to the police station and have them look for the report. If you called it in to your insurance co. they might have the police report # on file because that is one of the first questions we ask for.

Hey that is funny. My uncle was just telling me a story about his co-worker car. His old Celica got stolen and when the police recovered it they called him right away to identify if its his. When he got to the impound he couldnt recognize the car because it had fresh paint, bigger and wider rims, & big sound system. :D I must say that the guy is lucky that he had instant upgrades!...:D ...ohh and the celica before it got stolen was a piece of junk that he didnt care about. What a good story of a man falling in love to his car again, dont you think???..:) :) :)
FCTURBO2

hey
 

Yup. By the way. I would be very pissed if I was you. You dont care if you get it back or not. Even thou you had comp stealing is stealing. I would like you to find the guy who did it. Couldnt be to hard. Just back track. Find him then brake his fucking legs. Unless it wasnt an rx7 then your right... fuck it.

I got an AR 15 rifal with a scope. Anyone wanna steal my RX7s? I don't think so!

Oh ya
 

Sheeeeet doo. Ill wake em with my penice.

Did I spell that right.

Did I spell right, right. All well fuck it/ its 5 in the morning . going to bed. Sleeeepy

ok Wait if the insurance co paid you off
right? Then sometime later the car was found
the insurance co can get a Title and sell it at auction
and it's legit.

there are two things i can see happeningwith your insurance.

One. you might have to buy it back from your insurance company

two. they might not car or might not be notified and if they find out later and tell you it is their's i suggest you just play dumb and say ok. insurance fraud is no fun

but dont go see the guy. no use getting your car back if you get shot

Re: I just found my stolen car in CARFAX.com
 

Report it and get the car back. :D

OOoooh, good point.

But wouldn't that show up on the carfax report? car stolen /
car recovered / etc. ?

People that own rifles should at least know how to spell the word correctly.

Dah!:D

Shut the fuck up. that is what spell checker is for.

Then fucking use spell check if you're too simple to know how to spell rifle/rifles.

Not necessarily. A friend works for Carfax. He says they go around buying, cajoling, or doing whatever else their information procurers are willing to do to get sources of information. It could be that the insurance and law enforcement agencies involved in the various transfers of your EX-CAR do not share information with Carfax.

There is no universal, all encompassing reservoir of information about cars, titles, and histories. Carfax is merely a private enterprise that sells whatever information they can get their hands on at a price they find acceptable.

Your EX-CAR could quite explainably be in the hands of a legitimate owner. You should call the police and report the information you have found. If the car is still stolen, they will know what to do. If it is not, they will know that too.

Haha. this isn't English 1A asshole. Why don't you leave if you don't like my spelling errors.

*Once again, another person getting off subject to flame someone*

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*Cops man, go to the cops.

First off thanks yamatokh for the treat of using car fax on your dime =) I had always wanted to know what kind of info would show up.

Also I agree with Ralph. I ran all my cars and a couple others that I owned in the past. The information was sketchy at best and sometimes not accurate. You have to take it for what it is worth.

For example My wifes cars odometer was rolled back before we bought it. (The idiot that did it wasn't smart enough to remove the repair recipts from the glove box that showed milage higher than what was on the odometer.) Car fax was unable to detect the roll back but by looking at the reported milage you might be able to tell things didn't add up. Also some states such as michigan didn't show any milage reports at all.

Anyway. I enjoyed the info.

Easy Money
 

Does it say you're eligible for the $5000 Clean title guarantee?

If so, but your car back and call CarFax. Easy $5000 ;)

Similar thing happened to me many years ago--before carfax. In my case, the car was stolen for the stereo (not a real expensive unit by any means), and the guy had a dash vin plate and title from the same make/model. Drilled out the rivets, and glued on the vin tag. Sold the car (it was in the paper a week after it was stolen from me) listed as having a bad trans-- which it didn't. I saw the ad, but never thought it could possible be my car.

Turns out it was, a unsuspecting buyer bought it. I got a BIGTIME runaround from the cops when a friend spotted the car, and called the police. To avoid a 30 paragraph story here, make sure you have them check the VIN stamped into the firewall and confirm it matches the one on the dash. That is what I finally convinced them to do, and the car was recovered.

Buyer was out the $700 they paid, but later was able to id the guy when he was caught stealing another car.

Sometimes it sucks to have a nice car....:(

FPrep2ndGenRX7, If the insurance paid you that cars isn't your any more. And If you want it back you should motify the police and the insurance corp. The police so they contact the actual owner ; the insurance, to negociate the purchase of the car from them, like kabooski said.

also, don't do insurance fraud, that is real serious shit.

Re: Easy Money
 

I sure did!! Made me laugh. It required that you have a goverment document stating odometer roll back. Good luck getting that. They also will only pay 10% of value up to $5,000. For this car it wouldn't be worth it anyway. Paid $2,850 for it 4 years ago. I have already put over 40,000 miles on it so I don't feel bad.

Ditto that comment on the vin number. I had a motorcycle that the vin # on the frame didn't match the one on the motor and neither matched my title. I am not sure how it made it thru the state inspections. From now on I always check both vin#'s against the title before I take a car home.

Wow... I think this is the oldest post I have ever found of mine.
Looking for threads regarding odometers and found this... LOL.

Sucks that the OP hasn't been here for over eight years. I'd like to know if he did anything with this info.

what probably happened is you reported the car stolen to your local police, the police then never filed the stolen vehicle to the DMV. the thieves probably just found out your information and forged a bill of sale.

my suggestion is contact the police that you reported it to and take the information you have back to them so that they can investigate and pickup the person who is now in posession of your stolen vehicle. even though they may not know it was ever stolen they should have some record of who they bought it from so that the real thieves can be found.

edit: nm, damn necro post..

I'm dealing with this right now lol
Got my mr2 and rx7 stolen
Mr2 came up crushed in a junk yard 2 days later and no word on the rx7

Cal the police man
Seriously
I'm about to receive a 15k rollback for compensation of just my mr2
Which I bought for 1k

You were member 254 Pele, that is pretty old school. I wonder who was #1, maybe Ryan(I think his name was) that used to own the forum.

EDIT: Maybe that number on your name when you hover isn't your user join #, as there is only 1 person that joined earlier than you Pele and he has a higher number, according to the member search.

any news OP?

Lol, the OP hasn't been on here for 8 years. We'll never know.

My join date is not entirely accurate...

I joined the RX-7 club in Dec of 1999, as that's when I got my first RX-7 and actually joined the forum. That's reflected by my join date.

The forum was hacked in January 2001 and the entire place was deleted. There were no survivors... And no backups. It came back with all new servers and software. (Now without the backdoor vulnerabilities.) As such, most of the earliest dates are gonna be around February 2001.

Ah I remember hearing about that long ago.

ehh, figured I'd ask anway lol