On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:45:20 +1300 Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> wrote: > The whole idea of "salvage" title strikes me as being pointless. What > does it prove? A salvage title means the car was written off as totalled by its insurance company, at some point. I think the idea is to protect people from unknowingly buying vehicles that have been in serious accidents and then repaired. In some states a car with a salvage title also needs inspection before it can be registered for road use again. This is a different issue from whether the car is actually registered or not. You can let registration lapse on a car with a clean title if you want to. It doesn't create any problems in registering it later, in most states. -- David Brodbeck, N8SRE '82 Diesel Westfalia '94 Honda Civic Si |
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