Salvage Car Questions

If it was sold through Copart or IAA it would be easy to look up. Many times if you google the VIN you can find the auction pictures. Smaller auctions or AAA aren’t as easy to find. Ask the dealer if they have NMVTIS access, many do and it would show the correct title status.

 

Hang on, so you pulled the Carfax, is it actually marked salvage?

 

I almost bought a brand new VW back in 2003 that had body damage that they didn't disclose. The car was damaged at port and was repaired before it was on the lot. If my buddy wasn't a mechanic at the dealership I never would of known. I have never trusted buying a new car since even though I have multiple times since. Dealers can be just as shady.

 

That dealer doesn't want to deal with you. They want someone to pay full price for a car with a washed title

 

If it has been declared a total loss it must be branded salvage and is uninsurable... Period. If it's subsequently rebuilt it can go back on the road but will still have a branded title

 

How does a car switch hands at least twice with the title still in the original owner's name? How the hell can that dealer possibly apply for a transfer at this point? His name is in no way attached to the vehicle.

 

New titles are never issued on dealer transfers....

Very possible for it to move from two to three dealers and never be registered to a individual.

 

Same way all these race bikes do

 

Through Ray Hymer?

 

Simple as this. While they very well may be operating unethically, calling out their practices is unlikely to get you the discount you’re looking for. Unless there’s some attachment to this car, I’d move on. As for going forward with getting them in trouble, please just be absolutely positive that you can legally defend your accusations. As it sounds like they’re just operating in the shady but legal realm of used car sales.

 

Look, this is pretty simple. The car is worth whatever somebody is willing to pay. You are not willing to pay what the dealer wants, because you know the history of the car. The dealer is waiting for somebody else to pay more than you will. That is not the car you are going to get for what you want to pay. Let it go.

 

No, it's fraud. It's misrepresenting your product. And I don't give a damn if anyone else is doing it, it's just as wrong.