Car Titles

Do all lien sale cars have a salvage title?

Looking to purchase a lien sale car. I want to know if it will have a salvage title.

Public Comments

1. Some do have a salvage title
2. No, A salvage car means the car has been totaled and you are buying it. A lien sale car means you are accepting a car that someone has a lien on. It will have a lien on it until that person pays off their debt to the lien.
3. always check the carfax for any car....because not all are salvaged. it will show every history recoreded of the vehicle.
4. It will either have a full title or a salvage title. A salvage title is normaly done for a car that was "totaled" by an insurance company while a Lein vehicle is one that was repossed due to lack of payments. As a lein vehicle you should receive a full title.
5. Salvage titles happen when a car is totalled out by an insurance company after an accident and are then bought, fixed up and sold. You should be able to find out if it is a salvage title by running a carfax. You can run carfaxes at carfax.com, all you need is the vehicle ID number.
6. A salvage title means the vehicle at some point has been totaled by someone and it can only be sold as salvage in that state. A common practice is to move said vehicle to another state to get a clean title. A lien just means that somebody other than the owner has a legal interest in the vehicle, usually the people who finance it get a lien.