Must car repairs be reported to DMV in Florida?

Checking car on Carfax and it appears clear but titles soley in Florida.|||There is no rule or law that says it MUST be reported. If it was a repair paid for and authorized by an insurance company, yes it will be reported. But if the previous owner had it fixed in some dudes garage then NO, it will not be reported.|||Repairs due to an accident should be reported in FL


Repairs due to maintenance or because something failed don't need to be reported.|||All repairs are supposed to be reported, no matter what the state.





If the carfax is clear and you are still curious, take the car to a body shop and have them look at it.





If you want to do it yourself, what you are looking for is paint colormatching, overspray, plastic filler, missing trim pieces.





Sometimes, the new paint does not match the old paint exactly, or may fade at a different rate than the old paint.





Overspray is where paint was sprayed on items that are not supposed to be painted like the underside of the car, under the fenders, exhaust and suspansion pieces. Sometimes you can find what feels like a seam in the paint where the new paint was adjacent to the masking tape covering up places they didn't want to paint. This normally occurs in the door jamb area.





Plastic filler is used to make small or cheap repairs to dents. You can easily find this type of repair on metal surfaces with a magnet or, if you are good, you can hear the difference by tapping on the surface with your fingernails.





Good Luck|||Yes, it needs to be reported to CarFax, however, in Florida, they have up to a year and a half to report it. So a CarFax could be clean today, but four months or a year from now, something could show up that you didn't know about.