These are the same state police that believed Roberts Oxygen had the legal right
to break into my truck and steal property that I lawfully purchased at an
abandon equipment auction.
The same state police that believed trailer fender requirements were that my
fender extend downward 90 degrees to the front, and 45 degrees to the rear.
In both cases, of course, the state police were wrong. Instead, if you really
want to learn the facts of the law, read the law itself. There, you will
discover that Maryland does not have a salvage title. Regardless of what some
cop told you.
And as a PS, the maryland state police will not do vehicle inspections.
As a secondary PS, totalled is an arbetrary term, having no precise legal
definition. The lose definition is when a vehicle is damaged to the point where
repairing it to originial condition exceeds the value of the vehicle. This does
not mean that repairing the vehicle to operating condition will exceed the value
of the vehicle. This does not even mean that repairing the vehicle to original
condition will exceed the value of the vehicle. Simply that the insurance
company doesn't want to pay the money to repair it. Nothing more.
Maryland is one of the loser states when it comes to vehicle titles. To obtain
a new VIN for a stolen vehicle simply requires three photographs and a single
page form. Wait about 10 minutes, and you'll have a shiny new VIN plate for you
vehicle. It's easy to do.
But, just because I used to buy and sell salvaged vehicles in the state of
Maryland, what would I know. :-)
Oh, about CARFAX, they only list repairs done by a dealer, and only if the
dealer reports the repairs to them. If you bring your car in to me for repairs,
CARFAX will of course have no record of it.
Fred Thomas wrote:
> O/K here goes as I just hung up the phone with the Maryland State Police for
> car inspections of DMV, "ONLY" licensed dealers may buy at Brandywine for
> the salvage car auctions, you must be registered with the state of MD, the
> winning bidder will be give a "Salvage Certificate" stating this car had
> damage beyond it's assessed value, after the car has been repaired the title
> and "Salvage Certificate" can be taken to the State Police for inspection of
> "VIN" numbers as listed on the title and "Salvage Certificate, the State
> Police will then issue another ceritfication that the car has been
> inspected, the owner will then go to DMV and a title will be issued in his
> name, 2 lines below his name the declaration will be printed on the new
> title "Salvage beyond value", thus this title is now called a "Branded
> Title' for no matter how many times the title may be reassigned, this stops
> any law suits that some might say, "You never told me this car was wrecked",
> this is also the exact same procedure your insurance is "Supposed" to go by
> if they total your car and then it back to your, they issue a "Salvage
> Certificate", you notice I said "Supposed" to. Maryland has many different
> types of car linncenses including, new cars, used cars, salvage, and
> recycle/junk yard and the answer is also no a junkyard cannot sell you a
> complete car, this is for stopping a stolen car from having the "Vin
> Numbers" switched, he can part the out only, and a junk yard must have a
> "Salvage Certificate" on hand for "Every" car on his lot or if the car was
> bought from a private person a "Certificate of Title". Thjis is the law, and
> like most laws some people find ways to get around it or in some way sneak a
> totled car by DMV, but it is still against the law if you are caught, a good
> place to trace a used car out is "CARFAX", they now even have when the car
> was state inspected or emission tested, we've come a long way and still have
> a long way to go. "FT"
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