Why do dealerships lose/destroy vehicle records?

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You can get the dealer reported history... but there's often a lot more to a car than that.

yea.... anything that was not a dealer repair is not shown is a dealer history.. there is no way for the factory to know what is done outside a dealership.

AKA. i have cars that have been in an accident or wrecked but because i did not go through insurance the CARFAX is totally clean on the car. that may not be the truth but carfax will show a totally clean carfax on a car that has damn near been totalled


EXAMPLES...... i know of a new 996 turbo that had a factory road and tow coverage... when it was dropped off at the dealer it was backed into the service bay.... the roof was way to low and the new 996t was smashed into the drop off bay roof. Porsche, after a fight covered the cost of fix and an additional payment on top of that to cover the disvalue the car would undertake after the "accident" Overall. the car had a clean carfax and was sold with a clean title. Would the 2nd costomer ever know about this???? probably not... but I sure as hell would want to know id my new "old" 1 year old 996 turbo had major damage.. but this customer will and wont ever know what happened.