Salvage class C
So my 2017 Class C was damaged by a tree. It put 2 holes through the roof into the coach, and damaged a few other areas. The awning was damaged, coping, skylight, frig vent, minor water damage inside,...
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vrunner wrote:ron.dittmer wrote:
vrunner,
Years ago when our son was in college, his car got side-swiped and totaled by the driver's insurance company. We got the money for the totaled vehicle, then paid back what they wanted to keep the car. The title never exchanged hands. It remained unchanged. I thought that wasn't right, but that's what happened. In the end, the title was clean, though I don't know what a Carfax report stated.
If it's a great deal and you are very handy and up for the challenge, I would go for it as long as the title is not salvage or rebuilt. Like others state, you will have serious insurance troubles.
That is the main concern. The title will come back to me clean, in other words it’s my responsibility to change it to a salvage title. The paperwork will come to me to make that happen and the state notified at some point the unit was totaled. I am guessing since a salvage vehicle cannot be registered, the state will eventually suspend the registration, but that is an unknown. Add to that all the **** currently going on (NJ DMV is a hot mess) the title and registration issues seem to be a bigger issue then fixing the unit.
In many states, unless you're a licensed rebuilder, you can't do what you're suggesting. Do your due diligence before agreeing to anything with the insurance company.
