Hey Veeky Forums, so this guy has a pretty nice car but it has a salvag e title...

Hey Veeky Forums, so this guy has a pretty nice car but it has a salvag e title, he claims that it is from the vehicle being involved in insurance fraud and there is zero wrong with the vehicle mechanically or otherwise, what kind of paperwork would I need or what else do I need to prove he is telling the truth and there is nothing else wrong with the car?

Check the vehicle out and look for repairs that shouldn't be there.
Regardless of how or why it has a salvage title, it does lower the value of the car.

Buy a car without a questionable past. I doubt it's that rare.

Don’t buy it. It’s going to be a fucking headache. The laws vary from state to state as do the insurance companies willingness to even accommodate such vehicles. I can promise you the ordeal will be a fucking headache from start to finish.

Do

Not

Buy

Salvage

You can get some incredible deals on salvage vehicles

someone explain salvage titles to me and why they're so frowned upon or not wanted.

t. aussie

You can get an incredible deal on a gun and some cheap ammo and kill yourself with it

Because people are shit and don't fix things right, shops are shit and don't fix things right and take your money and usually you're buying someones disguised headachey shit and it's usually going to cost more than just buying a clean title one would have costed anyway

Salvage title shows that the insurance company wrote the vehicle off as a total loss at some point this could be because of small damage large damage or legal damage and does not necessarily know that the vehicle is really bad though that may be the case a lot of the time