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* Typically salvaged vehicles lose 50% of their NADA or KBB value, but usually this only matters if you are using your salvaged vehicle as a trade-in. The actual value loss can range greatly if you are selling it to a private party. This will be largely determined by the extent of damage to the vehicle and how concerned the buyer is with the damage or the effected repairs. If the repair work has been done professionally, the vehicle may not even lose value. One item to note, however- some insurance companies will not insure a salvage title vehicle or will at least limit how it can be insured. * If one is buying a used car, a used car value could be determined by asking for the car's history. This history includes all the service/maintenance done to the car, repairs/crashes it has gone through and the price difference of the used car and the new model.
=== === * A salvage/reconstructed car is worth roughly 40% less than a comparable clean titled car. Check nada.com, and kbb.com to get an idea of clean titled value.
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Is it legal in California to ask full retail value for a salvaged title vehicle?
You can ask anything you want to for it. Whether you can get it is another matter. California law requires you to tell them it is a salvaged title vehicle. If you do not tell them you have committed fraud and are subject to fines and jail time.Note: a legal salvage title will indicate that the vehicle is salvaged!
Salvaged title finance in california. Is it law in California that a car having a salvaged title can not be financed through a banking or credit union Stuck in a rut?
There is no law against financing Salvaged Titles. It is just that most banks and credit unioins chose not to finance these vehicles. The problem is that there can be liability if the vehicle is for whatever reason unsafe, and you sometimes do not know why a vehicle was salvaged. It could be because of frame damage or other serious damage, or it could be for water damage (i.e., Katrina), or it could be that it was just stripped by a theif, and has been rebuilt and is perfectly good, but since it was totaled by the insurance company, it is "salvaged". Some lenders will lend against a salvaged title. But they will take off 40% of the value of the vehicle due to salvaged title. So if the vehicle is worth $10,000 as a regular title, a salvaged vehicle will be worth about $6,000. I believe SafeCo might be a source for insurance. Car Cash Loans in Los Angeles (www.CarCashAuto.com) will lend against salvaged titles, according to their representatives.
If your already salvaged car is in another accident that is the other persons fault does his insurance company pay anything?
Why are you driving a salvaged car. If the car has any value they may pay something. If they damaged something that wasn't already damaged, they might pay something. You may end up having some fault for driving an unsafe vehicle as well if it was salvaged vehicle that was not repaired.
What will your insurance company cover on your salvage title car if in an accident?
in most states, even if a salvaged vehicle has been repaired it is still a 'branded' title...and thus worth less.......in the states i work in a fully repaired salvaged title vehicle is worth anywhere from 30-50% less on a total loss, (reduces the actual cash value)........now, if salvaged vehicle say is worth 4k and damages are 1k, then they will repair the damaged portion......
How do you find who or what insurance Co salvaged a specific car?
To determine who put the salvaged vehicle back on the road you will need to do a title history search. Insurance Companies never salvage a totaled out vehicle. They may sometimes retain salvage rights but this is for the auction of usable salvage parts from a vehicle and it's scrap metal value for auction. Once the vehicle is auctioned for it's parts and scrap value the insurance company has no control over what the buyer will do with it. Often unscrupolous buyers will purchase several vehicles of the same type and use 2 or 3 of them to make major repairs that can never bring the vehicle back to specs and resell the resulting vehicle. This is how grey market vehicles wind up back on the road. Insurance companies consider salvaged vehicles as unsafe and a danger to the motoring public. This is why most insurers will not offer coverge for salvaged or "Grey Market" vehicles. although some insurers will offer liability only.
If a vehicle is wrecked then totaled and it has a lost title will this affect the insurance claim?
Totaled vehicles which have been rebuilt generally have a "salvaged vehicle" title, or whatever it's called in your state. Vehicles with a salvaged vehicle title are by definition, not as valuable as the same vehicle with a clean title. If the vehicle is subsequently in another collision, the insurance company will not pay as much since the loss was not as great. Insurance companies only need to pay you for the actual value of the vehicle.
What is The value of rebuilt salvaged vehicles?
whatever you can for it.
How do you rollback your odometer?
That is illegal. Do not doit!Actually you often have to do it when you are replacing an instrument cluster with a salvaged one. Otherwise you'd have the salvaged vehicle's odometer.
How to sell a salvaged vehicle to a junk yard?
The best way is to go online and look whether anyone is interested in buying salvaged vehicles. You can checkout http://junkyard.recycleinme.com/ which is one of the largest online junkyard. You can check in there if anyone is interested in buying salvaged vehicles. You can also post a sell offer for the salvaged vehicle there so anyone interested can contact you.
Can you buy extended warranty on a salvaged vehicle?
Penn warranty company.
Is it a felony to sell a salvaged vehicle?
No, but I believe it IS a crime to misrepresent the title if it is a salvage,
How do you find a salvaged car?
local options
