I wanted to understand this matter for a while now.
My understanding is that an insurance company will only write a car off if the repair bill is more than what the car costs.
I've been to multiple accidents myself, as an example once some lady reared my leased Prius and the repair was like $5k and the car remained with clean title.
Yet I'm seeing more and more cars being sold with a rebuilt title and their owners claim smth like "no structural damage, only the rear door had to be replaced, but the insurance company issued a rebuilt title". I think it's a total BS, yet I decided to ask one seller how it's possible his car got a rebuilt title with only the rear door replaced. It was for 2011 Camry and he sent me the before pictures which I include here.
He claims that the prev owner accepted a "cash offer" from the insurance company and the car is a write off, and he bought it and just fixed the door and the fender.
Even tho I'm not buying it, I'm really curious if this is possible to issue a rebuilt title because of that or there's some hidden damage no one talks about
My understanding is that an insurance company will only write a car off if the repair bill is more than what the car costs.
I've been to multiple accidents myself, as an example once some lady reared my leased Prius and the repair was like $5k and the car remained with clean title.
Yet I'm seeing more and more cars being sold with a rebuilt title and their owners claim smth like "no structural damage, only the rear door had to be replaced, but the insurance company issued a rebuilt title". I think it's a total BS, yet I decided to ask one seller how it's possible his car got a rebuilt title with only the rear door replaced. It was for 2011 Camry and he sent me the before pictures which I include here.
He claims that the prev owner accepted a "cash offer" from the insurance company and the car is a write off, and he bought it and just fixed the door and the fender.
Even tho I'm not buying it, I'm really curious if this is possible to issue a rebuilt title because of that or there's some hidden damage no one talks about
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