[soundman98]

And don't forget, all dealers are franchises, NOT corporate run stores. It makes for varying policies and workplace ethics at every dealer.

I highly recommend putting the car back together and trying a different dealer.

I had a mitsubishi eclipse that i was doing some stereo work on, had the entire interior gutted to pull wire and install gear. I accidently blew the radio fuse, that on the eclipse is in a little yellow accessory block in the underhood fuse block. That yellow block allowed them to disconnect all the vehicle accessories while shipping the car, so shorting the radio killed everything from power mirrors, to interior lights, to the windows that i had rolled down.

Not knowing what this block was, i spent close to 4 hours looking for a fuse everywhere and not finding it. I finally gave up and brought it to a mitsu dealer in that state so they could fix it. They almost didn't due to the majority of the interior missing. But agreed to take a look at it begrudgingly. Important to note it was a 12year old car by this time, so there was no warranty involvement.

They found the bad fuse, and i learned an important lesson on fuses for $380(after all the required diagnosis time).

As an electrician, I've had a couple of jobs that are also like this, where the customer knows 'something about electrical' because their distant relative was an electrician(apparently it's genetic in some races), they butcher something up and then give up and call is in to look at it as a last ditch effort.

My boss always makes it clear in those situations that it's an hourly rate plus materials for whatever we find, and that while there's a guarantee on what we fix, and that expires if they start tinkering with the same devices--had a few customers where we would fix their crap work, they would tinker with it, screw it up, and expect us to fix it again for free.

Point here is that no one wants to walk into someone elses half-finished job being expected to warranty it. And no one wants to try warrantying a half-finished job because the liability for getting blamed for something else going wrong is huge. While you say you asked toyota corporate about the salvage title issue, you don't say if you asked them if the car needs to be complete. Which is really the issue at hand here.

So my suggestion is to give them a completely functional car if you want the warranty work.