Salvage Title Cars

[Fleetwin]

Re: Salvage Title Cars

The issue not addressed here is the safety of the cars involved.

Today's unit body vehicles require some pretty sophistacated repair procedures. Heat temp., etc. Not old Joe with a blue tip wrench.
There are millions of $$ spent on making the safety cage just what it is. If that is compromised (via wreck), you compromise.

I'd be a whole lot more confortable buying a rebuilt flood victim that a wreck hacked (welded) together by some hacks.
In any event, you have a "branded" title. Unles you plan on driving it to the end-forget it.

Parts can be replaced, structural integrity cannot be replaced. Your call, cash and flash is powerful. I just couldn't sell a compromised vehicle. Most would, I can't and won't.

 

[ezbtr]

Re: Salvage Title Cars

Go to coparts.com, all the salvage titled cars available for purchase before repair and open to the public for bidding.. They buy them from the Insurance co when they total them out.

I used to work for Copart (IT stuff all over US), some decent cars - theft recovery the best, little to no damage.

 

[jkust]

Re: Salvage Title Cars

Go to coparts.com, all the salvage titled cars available for purchase before repair and open to the public for bidding.. They buy them from the Insurance co when they total them out.

When my wife rolled our last tow vehicle over several times on the highway, Copart ultimately got it. I watched the online auction but I don't think it ever got any bids since most thingse were pretty well destroyed. I stopped by to get some personal stuff out of the truck and then I took some of the high value interior parts out of it as well since I planned to get the same truck. Copart said it was ok that I took parts off of it since they didn't own it yet, I still did, but they hovered over me as I did it seemingly unhappy I was doing it.

One can get a CARFAX on a vehicle, which should show an accurate title/mileage history, even for a salvage title.

I never quite took buying a salvage completely seriously and while every single used car I looked at that wasn't a salvage car had a Carfax right on the website, the salvage ones never did and I didn't buy access to the carfax site.