# How to verify lien/carfax
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-verify-lien-carfax/234365
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [December 28, 2013, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-verify-lien-carfax/234365 "2013-12-28T10:32:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@9c1ny](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1ny)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2013, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-verify-lien-carfax/234365/1 "2013-12-28T10:32:23Z")
Looking at buying a car but the title has a lien on it and the owner is saying it was his deceased uncles car and the lien has been paid for years, he does not have a lien release.
I walked away
Now I am trying to verify lien status myself but the DMV lien/title site appears to not be working (I was going to get current DMV info/bank info off of here)
Also I am looking to get a carfax run if anyone can help
The car is priced right and I would love to buy it but until I know theres not a cent owned that isn’t going to happen
VIN is 2g1fp22g0w2101082
thanks!
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### Author:  [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2013, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-verify-lien-carfax/234365/2 "2013-12-28T11:27:24Z")
PM’ed
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### Author:  [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-verify-lien-carfax/234365/3 "2013-12-28T12:46:33Z")
Contact the bank and get one.
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### Author:  [@Wahoo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wahoo)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2013, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-verify-lien-carfax/234365/4 "2013-12-28T13:58:58Z")
Find out what bank has the Lein and call them ask for them to fax the Lein release to you or the seller.
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### Author:  [@Justin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Justin)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2013, 5:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-verify-lien-carfax/234365/5 "2013-12-29T05:35:21Z")
Carfax does not show if a lien has been removed. You could guess based off of when the last owner bought the car, but it won’t tell you specifically that a lien has been satisfied.
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### Author:  [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-verify-lien-carfax/234365/6 "2013-12-29T06:04:34Z")
This happened to me once. I called, the bank verified the loan had been paid in full. I registered the car that day, title was still branded with a lien, had them mail me the lien release, when I sold the car I gave the release to the new owner to clean the title when he transfered it. That worked well for me