tman6919

my buddy bought a car last summer and we ran it through carfax last week just for ***** and giggles cause a friend had a carfax account. he bought the car from a dealer its a 94 accord lx with a clear Colorado title but carfax says the car is salvaged in kansas, so i just got one question to the HMT title experts, is carfax on crack or is there any way to register a rebuilt from salvage car in another state as a clear title? i already googled the ---- out of this and just cant find an answer

stillnoturbo

I believe that's there some states that if you title a car from another state with a bad title it won't transfer over. That's just a "heard" thing though.

Cray91

Salvage title cars can be given a clean title within the same state. You just have to bring the car in for inspection and pay some fees for the new title and inspection.

I am sure there is some work-arounds like transfering the title from one state to another but there are legit ways for a re-title that are not very difficult.

stillnoturbo

Wouldn't they just get a rebuilt salvage title then?

goldhatch94

cheack all the vin numbers!

Rexula

My Dad owns a car dealership, and he also has a CarFax account........Well, anyways every time he buys a car from a auction he always CarFax's it even if it come up as having a accident he sends it back. It's just easier not to explain to people why the car was in accident, cause in most cases we don't know. But, we've also had cars come in with a clean CarFax and they are fucked up, as in............We recieved a 03' Buick LaSabre, (I'm a body tech, so sometimes I check for damage on cars for him, or big hit accident fix's), well when I put the car up on the lift the front end had been basically totally replaced, this car had a clean CarFax(we still sent it back). When a insurance company has a car it might still have a clean title just have more damage than they're willing to pay for, so they sell it. Then a body shop buy's them usually and fix's them out of they're pocket(which will not show up on a CarFax unless its reported), which a lot of them aren't and get fixed out of pocket and never get reported, thats what sucks about CarFax. I was selling a 04' SRT4 Neon for someone I knew, this car had a clean title in Michigan, but when we ran the CarFax the car had been given a rebuilt title in Indiana and given a clean title in Ohio, then a clean title in Michigan. So he got screwed, cause if he doesn't let the person buying his car that it has a rebuilt title he can be sued for the amount that they payed for his car and still keep his car. This car only had 16,500 miles on it he had a $16,500 on it originally, once he found out about the title he ended up selling it for only $11,500. He is currently sueing the dealership that sold him the car in Ohio, which new that the car was rebuilt. In the end, with all the natural disasters and other ******** selling these cars you just have to check the car you're buying over really well. CarFax it. People will cheat you...........

planewreck

you are 100% right! I was a gm at a car dealership here in SD, Ive seen so many fucked up things. And no one that I know at any california dealership goes by carfucks.

BoosTedZSix

so stealerships have to tell you the car has or had a salvage title? even if you dont ask?

Rexula

I'm sure in some cases, some smaller dealerships don't even check cars on CarFax. So, they might not know.......every used car dealer in my area that my dad knows, he said that they check the CarFax for any car they get from the auction for bad accidents, salvage titles, rebuilt titles, flood titles. The 3 biggest used car dealers in my town even check they're trade-ins for that ---- also. Unless its a $500 beater car then they won't. Since car dealers have most of they're titles on hand they would know if the car is rebuilt/salvage in the state it came from. They're is a couple of other companies that do vehicle checks but I forget the names. But, dealerships like CarFax because everyone knows what it is and has heard of it, gives them a peace of mind.

planewreck

^^^yes they have to by law in cali, and if its been a rental. But if the title says clean title, its a clean title. No matter what carfucks says.