salvage title

[IALuder]

There's an S2000 in my neighborhood for sale. It's priced around $13,000, but it's a salvage title. It currently has 40 k and is a 2003 model. If the car was in a fender bender and it was reported to the insurance company would that immediately make the car a salvage title? What should I be looking for when buying used? I know it's risky, but the price is making me want to at least take a look.

[pdiggitydogg]

no, like rear 1/4s or serious frontal damage (ie you) has be done for a salvage title (or flood)

See if you can even get insurance for it, then off to someone for a once over

[IALuder]

yea i was thinking that. i mean mine lude got totoaled so it had to have the same thing.

im going to car fax it if the guy doesnt tell me.

[nonovurbizniz]

If it got stolen and damaged/Raped enough then it can get a salvage title too...

Basically salvage means that someone somewhere declared it as a total loss to their insurance.

Then someone else bought it from the insurance company and rebuilt it...

Having worked for a company that does that to THOUSANDS of cars...

Don't go NEAR that thing.

Only rebuilt car you can trust is one you've done yourself... and even that is no guarantee.

[IALuder]

yea i learned even my handie skillz were no match for 7mph bumper tap.

[nonovurbizniz]

Come on you should be able to fix that thing no problem...

It didn't crack the engine did it?

[AzCivic]

i've heard that if the airbags deploy, than in conjunction with somewhat minor body damage might make for a totalled car. thats just what i've heard though.

[sicones]

when a car gets totaled, Im pretty sure it just means that the damage is more or close to the total value of the car

[VR4_Craver]

Last I knew that for a car to be "totaled" in insurance eyes the damage has to be at least 1/2 of the cars current resale value.

[Mischief]

Totalled car = $ in damage to car > % of car's value (% can be different for each insurance company)

[KwikR6]

When i worked in an auto body shop.....air bags did not have anything to do with the car being totalled off sometimes. We fixed man cars who's airbags were deployed.

[IALuder]

air bags cost 1500 bucks. it does and can effect the title.

[KwikR6]

Yeah but it's not the only contributing factor in the fucking car being written off.

[ebpda9]

my integra was written off and it got stolen, the i bought it back and junk hunted the parts and put it back toghether for $300. no body damage tho, just interior plastic crap got stolen.

[IALuder]

but in order for air bag to be deployed they had to have hit something rather hard...

[AzCivic]

Originally posted by KwikR6
Yeah but it's not the only contributing factor in the fucking car being written off.

uhh duh!! its the major cost involved with fixing them, obviously.

[Mischief]

Originally posted by IALuder
but in order for air bag to be deployed they had to have hit something rather hard... not necessarily, airbags can go off pretty easily, especially if you hit where the sensor is

[VR4_Craver]

^^ I saw a video where this guy had just bought a brand new car and took it home and was having a video made of him driving around he hit a pt hold and the bags blew out. It was hilarious. And in the manual for your car it says if you hit a pot hole of just bump something you can set them off

[KwikR6]

Originally posted by IALuder
but in order for air bag to be deployed they had to have hit something rather hard...
wrong.....air bags can be deployed quite easily. I could go to an accident scene...and the car could be fucked...and the airbags not go off....after the extrication..go and kick the bumper a bit...deploy the airbags...
or when working in a car....after an accident...even the movements and extrication can deploy the air bags...
Now i'm not saying in all cases airbags deploy easy. But they do.
Originally posted by AzCivic
uhh duh!! its the major cost involved with fixing them, obviously.
Ummmmmm suspension damage, frame damage, pillars can be quite expensive also. Right up there with air bags. We would write vehicles off sometimes just because the suspension and all the control arms and everything would be ripped off. Too much money to fix it.