January 2025 Chat -- Happy New Year!!!
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You CA guys using wildfires to heat up your state is pretty ingenious..Don't go get your bathing suit but it's a tad warmer.
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Sure beats having to cut, split, and carry all that firewood into the house just to stay warm.
Think I'll bring it up over here in Ohio. WV has plenty of trees, and they all burn coal over there, so...
Delt me a 5 this morning..
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Half the stuff I own is like that... But I repair it myself so I know what's been done to it.
Yes. But obviously inspected well and test drove before hand
My first truck was totaled. Purchased it as a salvage and repaired it myself. Then I purchased a salvage title TDI. Gave the TDI back to VW when California wouldn't let me renew the registration for the emissions scandal. So I bought another TDI not on the list and it was a salvage title too. Require some work but it's bow my daily driver and I don't question it's reliability or ability to get me anywhere regardless of the miles
So thee vehicle so far that where written off by insurance that I ended up owning
I used to work in the collision industry when I was younger. I have had a few trucks over the years, Mostly GMT800's. My current 1500 GMC is a salvage title from Auction. Took me 4 hours in parking lot to swap all the parts out and get it roadworthy again to drive to the body shop for paint. My LLY is a clean title. I bought it used from a local dealership I get parts through. For what's out there, It was low miles fairly good shape with service history and priced fairly compared to everything else. An LBZ commanded another 10K for the same truck at the time. Anything Diesel was hacked or beat when it came to the salvage title vehicles being sold. I also couldn't finance buying a wrecked one and repairing it myself at the time. No Financial institution will finance on a salvage title vehicle either. The also wouldn't take another salvage title vehicle as collateral.
If it’s been repaired right i would not hesitate. I’ve done many (couple hundred till now) a Duramax salvage rebuild. In fact buying my own salvage vehicle and repairing is all I’ll ever do (as long I’m physically able) probably. For my personal vehicle that is as i am a full time auto tech now instead of rebuilder.
I bought my 04 F250 Harley truck just that way back in 09. Was on eBay freshly repaired, and everyone must have been worried about that previous salvage status. Never brought an opening bid, and I bought it directly from the seller the week after ebay auction ended for few dollars above that price.
Short story, seller out of AZ who installs/repos shop equipment, had a B-line frame machine at his house, and rebuilds a couple salvage truck a year. Did good work, and I never noted any alignment issues over 8yrs driving said truck. He was just a really bad photographer of his finished work, which scared off buyers. But when I ask, he showed me the before repair photos, making it much easier to realize it was just a frame corner bent which caused the write off..
My son has purchased a few more rebuilds than I. He follows same rule. Show me what it looked like before you started hacking on it, and then make the call..
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Would you buy it if it looked like this before starting???
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I turned down a rolled 4 year old LMM once that wasn't half that bad. Because I knew it's history.. lol
That must have been really low miles.
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The problem with buying a rebuilt-from-salvage vehicle is that there are so many hack body shops out there these days that will piece one together with half-ass body work and questionable parts/skill to make it look decent enough that the average person doesn't even realize how bad it is. If I knew who did the rebuild and trusted their work, I wouldn't have a problem buying a salvage title vehicle.
So gas doesn't sux so much anymoretraded my 07 CC LBZ for this very clean 04 5.3 gasser. The LBZ had a glow plug stuck in the head and prob needed 5k in other parts. I'm looking for '23 GMC AT4X take offs for it, the rest will stay stock
Well said.
There is a guy on Youtube called Vechor. His name is Scott. He shows some of this on his channel. Auctions cars that were purchased and doctored up to look not nearly as bad, then attempt to resale. Fortunately in the digital age and with his Auction accounts you can see the previous auctions and what it looked like before.
I have seen and worked on some Unsafe stuff in the past.