1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I get that and I'm glad other dealers are starting to embrace technology that has been available for decades. It's long overdue.

 

2003 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off Road http://www.ksl.com/auto/listing/4649706

This is suspicious

 

My daughter is going to NAU Med School. 2 outta 5 semesters down. Almost there.

 

Rebuilt title

 

So?

 

That’s why it’s so cheap

didn’t see that. I figured it was the frame or somethings

 

So do you just spend all your free time looking at toyota trucks for sale? Lol

 

You don’t want a car with a rebuilt title. No bueno.

 

Why? We all are driving

Why?

We all are driving 20 year old trucks. Does it really matter that it's not a clear title?

For that matter, all my Toyota trucks were salvege title trucks.

The only issue is Banks don't like to loan money to by salvege titled vehicles.

 

Yeah salvage, clean, rebuilt, doesn't matter anymore.

 

Insurance may be higher on a salvage/rebuilt title too, but I think that depends on your location more than anything.

 

I have a lot of free time when I’m not working and have no money to go anywhere.

Salvage titles could be like a ticking time bomb.

What if the truck was flooded?
What if the truck has a bent frame?
What if there’s nothing wrong with the truck and the insurance just totaled it out for no reason?

It’s a gamble.

 

If you are on this thread, you already are considered " 1 percenter". You know more about these trucks then 99 percent of the rest of people that buy these trucks.

You most likely know what to look for.

 

Who knows what happened to them that caused it to be salvaged. Could have been flooded, crashed, rolled, etc etc - the list goes on. I've seen lots of shady repairs that defeat a lot of safety features in order for the car to get rolling again. For example, repair shops like to replace airbags with resistors to trick the computer into thinking the airbag is functional, when in reality the SRS system is dead. Not only are Salvage title vehicles harder to insure, they loose a lot value.

Yes, they are 20 year old trucks. But the point being is that the title status doesn't matter, it's the repairs and/or integrity of the vehicle that matters. Like @JKO1998 said, it's a gamble. A gamble I'm not willing to take unless I explicitly know the damage, or know what repairs have been made firsthand. Safety first.

 

I’d be more tempted to take the gamble too if it are like 1k or so. 7k’s a lot of money to risk.

That’s a pretty big accusation, I don’t know shit

 

None of you cat's on this thread should be afraid to buy a wrecked or salvaged tocoma.

 

This is coming froma guy who built a no tirle 5lug that look like it came off the bottom of a mine

 

For $7k, the hell I am!

Maybe if it was $1-$2k sure, but $7k is clean title reliable vehicle pricing.

 

U know how to take pictures and you know how to ask questions. You are still ahead of the game.

 

For like 900 bucks though.