Salvage / Rebuilt title

[3MAX]

Question on a Blazer with a Salvage title in its history. The truck has been through a complete frame-off build, with a “new” frame being used. No rust and it’s in good shape. It’s got about 45k miles on it since the rebuild. Looking at the title history, it was Salvaged in 1997, but somehow now has a “clean” title, not a rebuilt title. How much does the salvage effect the value, if any? This probably a $25-$30k truck otherwise.

 

[imiceman44]

Question on a Blazer with a Salvage title in its history. The truck has been through a complete frame-off build, with a “new” frame being used. No rust and it’s in good shape. It’s got about 45k miles on it since the rebuild. Looking at the title history, it was Salvaged in 1997, but somehow now has a “clean” title, not a rebuilt title. How much does the salvage effect the value, if any? This probably a $25-$30k truck otherwise.

In some states once it's salvage it can't be cleared like here in CA
It affects newer cars more than older ones because the old ones have their value higher in spite of age and condition

 

[HankScorpio]

A salvage brand on a title affects insurance. Some companies wont even cover one. If you have one that miraculously now is a clean title then some real shenanigans have occurred. Don't buy it, that's some real scammer stuff there.

There is a guy in UT right now up on 15 felony charges for trying to get duplicate titles on a bunch of salvage hail damage cars he bought out of WY through copart. He was trying to clean up the titles, there was a bogus notary and some forgery involved too. You don't just end up with clean titles, salvage brands are irrevocable.