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Originally Posted by evomike
and this folks is why you do not buy a car with a salvage title for anything but a track car.
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I'll throw this out:
I moved from Seattle, where my credit union would not even loan money on a salvage, to rural KY where everybody - even my banker - has a salvage in their driveway.
I wondered before I moved here, what people in a lower income and cost of living area do regarding items that cost the same no matter where you live. Answer: They buy a LOT of salvage cars. One of my friends owns a shop where he only does (rebuilds and sells) late model GM truck salvages. He drives one himself and they are all great cars. But he's careful about how he gets them. In one case, he got 20 or 30 brand new trucks due to "flood damage". He got them dirt cheap because all of them except one only saw about six inches or less. i.e. there was not a darned thing wrong with them. The one that did get a few feet of water he put in his "parts" yard. BTW, his business has exploded.
When people only make $40k a year and they need A reliable 4x4 truck, a salvage is about the only option they have.