It's called a salvaged title.

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"

A 'total loss' by any other name still smells like fraud.

;-)

I work in the Independent Automotive Repair Sector crushing cars and there engine like "Cash for clunkers" hurt thousands of Automotive businesses and owners who can not afford payments on the newest model of cars so we use the engines and transmissions to keep there vehicals safe and on the road at a fraction of the cost of what a new or remand unit would cost... now with that said I think some pre planning for hazmat should have been performed such as checking for leaks or areas that may be a spot for leaking...

P.S. the Auctions like this are usualy only too those in Salvage yards or to Tech schools, Scrap recyclers and all of them are Given a Salvage title.. If you fail to read a contract not the sellers problem that becomes your problem for failure to keep situational awareness and attention to detail and research.....

TBarmy97

"P.S. the Auctions like this are usualy only too those in Salvage yards or to Tech schools, Scrap recyclers and all of them are Given a Salvage title.. If you fail to read a contract not the sellers problem that becomes your problem for failure to keep situational awareness and attention to detail and research....."

Well, unfortunately, "usually" is the key word. The unfortunate reality was learned by hundreds of car buyers in the Pacific Northwest after Hurricane Katrina, when flood-totalled cars began showing up all over Oregon, Washington and western Idaho.

The Washington Post did a story shortly after Katrina. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032500098.html Oregonian and Seattle Times newspapers and local TV News stations also ran investigative reports after dozens of those vehicles began showing up in auto-electric service dealers with unexplainable advanced corrosion in their electrical systems, and other accelerated corrosion issues at body welds, ... all of which was finally sorted out when these vehicles were determined to be salvage, totalled by the insurance companies, sold at auction, trucked as much as 2,500 miles away from New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf Coast, cleaned-up in detail shops and then resold to unsuspecting private buyers. Falsified titles were part of the sham (which was why they were sent to other states far from where they were auctioned as salvage). The

The same thing is going to happen with hundreds, thousands of these flood-totalled vehicles from New York and New Jersey. They will end up in the US Midwest and Western States, with falsified titles .... and the insurance companies KNOW it's going to happen. That's the worst part of the fraud. The big insurance companies, with names we all know and send our auto-insurance premiums to each month, will be the ones facilitating the fraud.

Exactly what I would be fearful of - my family bought two used cars from an old established dealership in our hometown and both were lemons. The first ended up being a program car - probably treated very badly and not a true "used car" as we once knew. The second was checked through Car-fax and according to them there had been no accident. What we could not figure out was why the right front passenger door would not open with the key provided. Later, the car rattled and sounded like it was going to fall apart - so I would say you can't trust anyone. From then on - it's new cars for us. We don't trade often and drive them until we need a new car - better, safer and more dependable than lemons. You never know where these dealerships get their used cars - auctions all over the country - can't trust any of them.