What does a salvaged title really mean?

I found a car i am very interested in, but it has a salvaged title. Im not too familiar with this term, and was wondering what it means? I have an idea of what it means, like the car was involved in an accident, but would like to know the exact definition. It may sound like a stupid question, and im sorry about that, but i need to know what this really means. thanks guys.

yea, i already saw that, it says its saved from loss. thats a little broad. Does it mean the car was totalled, and rebuilt, or can it mean that it ws in a fender bender and a fender was changed? And your pretty funny... i love comedians... maybe i shuold book you on a tour....

It wouldnt be a broken bumper and replacement, or else all used cars that got small incidents would never sell.

Salvaged is when its totaled, and rebuilt.
You are better off to buy a car that is used with low miles, less chance of breaking down.

thanks man, thats what i thought and was just reassuring, and that little quote i put at the end there, it was from heavy weights, it kinda reminded me of that lol.

Depending on the state "Salvaged Titled" could be anything as simple as the car was brought from a jumkyard/auto recycler.

But generally under a salvaged title, a car falls under this tittle if the car was not repaired due to a broken or defunt parts or body and towed off to a junkyard. sometimes ppl cant afford to fix the car so they get it towed to the junkayrd, or the car was sitting on the side of the road due to a flat tire or becsaue the car overheated adn the owner never retrived the car and it gets towed to the junkard. and then ppl buy these cars becasue they had a simple little problem as a blown tire or the car over heated cause they didn't have the right mixtuire of coolant.

I have brought cars that all they needed was a new hood, or new quater-panel, just because its a slavaged title doesn't mean its bad.

you will be surprised at what you can find at a junkyard/auto recycler that you can get a salavaged title for.

Is it possible to wipe away a slavaged title or anything, or will the car always be hard to sell? I've always wondered that, kinda like speeding tickets coming off your insurance...

My mr2 was salvaged.... had a messed up bumper, fender, and some of the shit going to the right front wheel. I believe it was replaced with an entire front clip. Everything is OK.

you can get the title clean, and sometimes they will issue a new vin,

so even though it maybe salvaged now, you can go and get it wiped clean.

I will be going through this when i go and produce yet another awd Camry, I will also get a new vin becasue of the awd and other modifcations i will be making.

That's awesome! Maybe my dreams of a MKIV Supra aren't so distant after all.

Lot of salvage titled cars were stolen or repo'd or seized.

Originally posted by Sportivo Concepts
you will be surprised at what you can find at a junkyard/auto recycler that you can get a salavaged title for.

exactly, people get the idea that a salvaged title is the end of the world for a car that they can never resell it etc etc. these are all misconceptions.

my husband's '89 MR2 has a salvaged title, but it was rebuilt. all of this is stated on the title. it was in a wreck on the pass quarter panel and pretty much the entire right side. but when he bought this car, it was a cheap price & he was lucky to pick it up.

sometimes a salvaged title can also be due to a freshwater flood, like a street flood.

i guess it bothers some people, but it doesn't bother me or my husband...it doesn't stop people from complimenting the car including a guy in a Ferrari 360 today :cool:

Keri

a woman after my own heart:loove: :loove:

Originally posted by Sportivo Concepts
you can get the title clean, and sometimes they will issue a new vin

how is that possible???...VIN numbers are produced by manufacturers...not by the DOT....

here in the states they can re-assign you a new VIN if major modifcations has been done like engine swaps or awd/rwd conversions.

and actually DOT has some say about the VIN, its the same way a custom Hot Rod or custom Chopper gets a VIN number,

yeah, When the motor was replaced with just the same size motor with my celica, they issued me a new vin for the car.

They said incase it was stolen later or in a wreck, the motor would match. ?! The same size motor was put back in, but they still issued the new vin.

As for Salavaged titles, if a car is sold within most states and the damage is 50%-75% of the value of the car it is considered to be salvaged

It can also mean water damage, hail damage etc...

From what I found out, you need to get a rebuilt title on your car. This requires goverment inspection to ensure that everything passes their specifications.

Not sure if this applies for you or not though