Burned Cars?

[Niko303]

Say a car is blown up beyond recognition. What happens to it? What happens to the title? Is there anyway to purchase the car as rebuildable?


Secondly, say "everything" is stolen off a car so much that the owner must file an insurance claim. The insurance company realizes that so much of this car is missing it would be cheaper to salvage it. Would that work? Meaning the car would be for sale, as rebuildable somewhere?

Thanks!

[Township Rebellion]

If it's burned in such away that it's unrebuildable (realistically), then whoever owns the title to it can essentially do whatever with it - apart from actually rebuilding it as a servicable car; theortically if there's enough left of it that the fire didn't burn I suppose one could use those parts elsewhere. Legally, it can't really be sold on as legitimate transportation - I suppose if the owner decided to keep the remains for whatever reason, and you wanted what's left for whatever it is you'd want to do with it, I don't think there's a law against selling it off, but honestly, any vehicle that gets "blown up" to the point that it's unrecognizable is simply not going to be rebuildable. The chassis will most likely have taken far too much damage to cope with being used as a car anymore.

The most logical and obvious explanation is that the wreck goes to the junk yard and gets scrapped. OP, if you're planning on looking for burnt-out wreck to potentially rebuild as a car, unless you have millions of dollars and a something of an intact frame to work with, it's pretty much a worthless endeavour. You'll probably have to go to a scrap-yard; alternatively, you might be able to score a deal at places like Pick-a-Part, who knows?

As for the second part, your post is sounding more and more like Bad Ideas material. But something tells me that no thief could concievably steal that much from one single car to the point that it would be "salvagable". Do you mean stealing a car and taking it to a chop shop? Well, then the car, if found, would probably go back to the owner, or at least would be up to the owner as to whether they want to rebuild it, which an insurance company probably wouldn't cover so you'd spend your own money to do so; otherwise it would go to the scrapyard... eventually. No, it wouldn't be for sale, again that's up to the owner, but if the car is a shell and all it's parts have long since gone elsewhere then most likely be crushed.

[Rainycity]

i is smarty pants

[Kwinnie Bogan]

1. The car will never be cheaper to salvage. Ever. Say a new car is $25,000. If you bought all the parts individually and prepper them then assembled them it would run you 5 times that.

2. A completely burned out car is absolutely worthless. Hardly even worth anything to a scrap yard.

[happy_one_hit]

1. The car will never be cheaper to salvage. Ever. Say a new car is $25,000. If you bought all the parts individually and prepper them then assembled them it would run you 5 times that.

2. A completely burned out car is absolutely worthless. Hardly even worth anything to a scrap yard.

Yes, and yes. A completely burned car is only good for scrap metal, but but a stolen/recovery car has a re-buildable title, and are the types you want to look for, to an extent. If the car it striped to the frame, its not worth it, you always have to look at it in a practical way. Its it worth fixing, or will it cost me money?...the only question you should ask when looking at totals.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

Yes, and yes. A completely burned car is only good for scrap metal, but but a stolen/recovery car has a re-buildable title, and are the types you want to look for, to an extent. If the car it striped to the frame, its not worth it, you always have to look at it in a practical way. Its it worth fixing, or will it cost me money?...the only question you should ask when looking at totals.

and it's only worth getting to that stage of consideration if the vehicle is something particularly desirable and hard to get (though this means prohibitively expensive to rebuild usually), or has a lot of sentimental value.

Vehicles like Katrina cars aren't worth buying unless they're a Super Bee or something. Stolen or confiscated cars on a recovery title is a different game altogether. Can get good deals that way.

[happy_one_hit]

and it's only worth getting to that stage of consideration if the vehicle is something particularly desirable and hard to get (though this means prohibitively expensive to rebuild usually), or has a lot of sentimental value.

Vehicles like Katrina cars aren't worth buying unless they're a Super Bee or something. Stolen or confiscated cars on a recovery title is a different game altogether. Can get good deals that way.

All Katrina cars should have been scraped...they were sitting in that salt water for way too long. The shame is, we have a bunch riding around. Where are you from?

I am waiting for someone to wreck/steal a WRX STI! I need something new. I almost got a nice 350z the motor flooded, but not the interior. Missed it by about $300. :(

[Kwinnie Bogan]

Delaware.

[happy_one_hit]

Delaware.

Oh, I thought you were down here for a second. I'm from New Orleans.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

Anywhere near a little old Casino called the House of the Rising sun? That song is fucking badass.
I'm not actually from Delaware. I just said that because I've never, ever, heard anyone claim they were from Delaware.
I live pretty damn far south myself.

[happy_one_hit]

Anywhere near a little old Casino called the House of the Rising sun? That song is fucking badass.
I'm not actually from Delaware. I just said that because I've never, ever, heard anyone claim they were from Delaware.
I live pretty damn far south myself.

....uhhh..

*smokes more weed to understand*

*NOW PLAYING* Rush -Tom Sawyer
:headbang:

..oh yeah Delaware? Strange place...huh?

....aside from the non-sense I am out of "New Orleans" city limits, but its easier to just say N.O.

[Struwwelpeter]

Actually you can grind the car down and sell it as crushed black pepper for at least 10,000 dollars.

[yawanur]

One town over from me there's an 'auto auction' that apparently auctions off cars impounded from criminals, people who don't claim a car after it's towed, etc. My friends dad drives a tow truck and apparently, because he's knowledgeable with cars, low balls them and calls them out on what the car is worth, then gets it cheap. The only number I heard was they asked $2k, he paid $600.

Oh his current vehicle line up-
-Big ass tow truck
-Big ass flat bed
-'98 grand cherokee, AWD
-'68 [?] ford galaxie, bright orange/chrome
-~00' eclipse
-70s dodge dart 4 dr 200 somethin block [did I say it right? :p]
-80s 3 series, standard, but it's nasty moldy on the inside
-50s/60s merc sedan, white, rusty, but seems to be in good condition

[Township Rebellion]

Anywhere near a little old Casino called the House of the Rising sun? That song is fucking badass.
I'm not actually from Delaware. I just said that because I've never, ever, heard anyone claim they were from Delaware.
I live pretty damn far south myself.

And how far down would that be?

[bornkiller]

Say a car is blown up beyond recognition. What happens to it? What happens to the title? Is there anyway to purchase the car as rebuildable?


Secondly, say "everything" is stolen off a car so much that the owner must file an insurance claim. The insurance company realizes that so much of this car is missing it would be cheaper to salvage it. Would that work? Meaning the car would be for sale, as rebuildable somewhere?

Thanks!
Here if an insurance company classifies it as a right off...its fucked (off the system)
Don't know how it works where you are though.:confused:

[maskedwolfpup]

a shipping port in dallas texas got flooded in 2000 or so and brand new volkswagens got covered under water, supposedly these are going around now like katrina cars. Also affected was VW wiring harnesses in crates, sold as scrap to the insurance company but may be on the black market

[6464]

i is smarty pants

I dislike you and your shit spelling. I can only hope you get banned.