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Originally Posted by gily25

In addition to the possibility of not being able to insure or file warranty claims on a salvage you probably will have issues getting bank financed or it will be short term high interest. If you don't have cash you should probably skip this one.

Salvage titles aren't really a discount, they're a gamble on future expenses. If you have cash and pursue a salvage, engine is one thing to worry about (but if the block wasn't touched, meh-), more likely to have possible future alignment issues (if front end) causing, tire wear, brake wear, differential issues, strut towers checking out early. Some of these things you won't know about until they fail.

Or discovering at an awkward moment that the rebuilder "forgot" to replace deployed airbags.