Can You Sell A Salvage Title Vehicle And The New Owners Register It In Their Name

Save Vehicles

Tip

Do not buy a vehicle with an orange-colored salvage title. The vehicle must exist rebuilt earlier it is sold to a individual party.

Consumer Tips/After a Crash

A vehicle that has been issued an orange-colored salvage title may not exist registered in Nevada until information technology has been inspected by a Nevada registered garage, Nevada licensed body shop or Nevada licensed rebuilder.(NRS 487.860)

License Plates
License Plates

Remove your license plates from a totaled vehicle. You may:
- Transfer them to another vehicle inside 30 days
- Surrender them to the DMV and employ for a registration fee refund.
  (You must take a re-create of the Salvage Title to apply for a refund.)
- Return them to the Section within 60 days for standard issue plates or within 30 days for special plates. Y'all will receive a credit toward another registration.
See Plate Surrender/Refunds. You must transfer or surrender the plates before yous cancel the liability insurance if yous intend to retain ownership of the vehicle and register information technology in your name.
If y'all have collision/comprehensive insurance coverage

If you have standoff/comprehensive insurance coverage

Your insurance company will determine whether your vehicle meets the definition of a salvage vehicle. They volition help you in completing the Save Title Procedures.

You may transfer ownership to the insurance visitor or to a DMV-licensed salvage pool, automobile auction, rebuilder, car wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer.

Or, you and your insurance company may agree that you can retain the vehicle.
If you exercise not accept collision/comprehensive coverage

If you do not accept standoff/comprehensive coverage

It is your responsibleness to assess whether the vehicle meets the definition of a salvage vehicle.

If there is a loan or charter on a vehicle, you must notify the lienholder within 10 days and the lienholder must utilise for a Salvage Championship within xxx days.

If there is no lienholder, you lot must either employ for a Salvage Title within 30 days or sell the vehicle to a DMV-licensed salvage pool, automobile auction, rebuilder, car wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer. Run across Salvage Title Procedures.

You lot may not sell the vehicle without first obtaining a Save Title. You may non sell the vehicle to a private political party without rebuilding it.
If yous retain a salvage vehicle

If y'all retain a relieve vehicle

Read and follow all of the procedures on this page advisedly. A rebuilt vehicle must be inspected by a licensed garage or torso shop and the DMV before it tin can be sold or registered. Information technology is the possessor's responsibleness to complete these steps and obtain a standard blue Nevada title before the sale.

If you retain the vehicle but choose non to rebuild it, you lot can sell it only to a DMV-licensed salvage pool, automobile auction, rebuilder, automobile wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer.

Improperly selling a save vehicle can be a serious felony crime. Sellers must disclose in writing that the vehicle is a relieve vehicle. See Salve Vehicle Laws and Penalties.

What is a Salvage Vehicle?

"Save vehicle" ways a motor vehicle that at any fourth dimension has been declared a total loss vehicle, alluvion-damaged vehicle, non-repairable vehicle or had "save" or a similar word or designation placed on whatsoever championship issued for the vehicle.

Full Loss - A vehicle that has been damaged to the extent that the estimated price of repair, not including the cost associated with painting whatsoever part of the vehicle, would exceed 65 percent of the off-white market value of the vehicle immediately earlier the impairment was incurred. Vehicles with less than 65 percent damage are non considered salve vehicles.
Inundation Damaged - A vehicle that has been submerged in water to a point that the level of the h2o is higher than the door sill of the vehicle and the water has entered the passenger, trunk or engine compartment of the vehicle and has come into contact with the electrical organization of the vehicle; or a vehicle that is part of a total loss settlement resulting from water impairment.
Non-Repairable - A vehicle, other than an abandoned vehicle, that has value simply as a source of parts and fleck metal, or has been designated by its possessor for dismantling, or has been stripped of all body panels, doors, lights, etc., or has been burned or destroyed beyond a restorable condition.

Salve vehicles in Nevada are issued an orangish-colored Salve Title. A salvage vehicle may not exist registered or operated on whatever public street until it has been rebuilt and inspected. Once a relieve vehicle has been repaired, it becomes a rebuilt vehicle and may be registered and/or sold if the proper procedures beneath take been followed. Non-Repairable vehicles are issued a Certificate and may not exist restored to operating status.

Older Vehicles

Vehicles 10 model years sometime or older are not considered relieve vehicles if the only repairs needed are a limited number of items. Specifically, the hood, the trunk hat, and/or upwards to 2 of the following: doors, grill associates, bumper assembly, headlight assembly and taillight assembly.

If the vehicle requires more repairs than this, the 65 per centum impairment rule applies. For example, the 65 percentage rule would apply if the grill, forepart bumper and one headlight assembly were replaced. If only the hood, the grill and the bumper were replaced, the 65 percent dominion would not utilize and the vehicle would non be considered a salvage vehicle.

Rebuilt Vehicles (Not-Salve)

Vehicles which have had sure repairs must be titled as Rebuilt even if they do not meet the definition of a relieve vehicle. See Non-Salvage Rebuilt Vehicles.

Salvage Title Procedures

Publications

Salvage Vehicle and Not-Repairable Vehicle Certificate Guide

Wrecker and Tow Car Guide (currently undergoing revision - check back before long)

Obtain a Salvage Title

When a vehicle has been damaged to the extent it becomes a salvage vehicle, an orange-colored Relieve Championship must exist issued. The responsibleness to consummate this process rests with:

The insurance visitor if the company declares the vehicle to exist a total loss.
The lienholder, if whatever, if there is no comprehensive/collision insurance. The registered owner must notify whatsoever lienholder of the damage to the vehicle inside 10 days and the lienholder must apply for a salvage title within thirty days.
The registered owner, if there is no insurance or lienholder and the owner wishes to retain the vehicle. The owner must submit the current title and an Awarding for Salvage Title (VP-213) inside 30 days. The owner has the option to sell the vehicle to a DMV-licensed salvage pool, car sale, rebuilder, automobile wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer. If this occurs, the licensee is responsible for obtaining the Salvage Title.

Meet NRS 487.800 for details. The DMV will issue a Relieve Championship or Not-Repairable Vehicle Certificate to the new owner (the insurance visitor or DMV licensee) or to the electric current owner (if the vehicle is retained) within 2 business days after the department'due south Central Services Division has received the properly completed awarding, current title and other documents.

Important: No other transfer of buying may take place until the DMV has issued a Relieve Title.

Run into Bonded Titles if you do not take proof of vehicle ownership and cannot contact the previous possessor.

Application for Salvage Title or Non-Repairable Vehicle Certificate (VP 213)
Insurance Company Affidavit Without Endorsed Title (VP 236)
Donation Affidavit without Endorsed Title (VP 275)
Unrecovered Vehicle Title Request Class (VP 243)
Application for Private Bidder Identification Carte du jour (OBL 250) | Data (OBL 257)
Private Bidder Sale Report (OBL 258) - Excel Spreadsheet, Legal Size
Individual Bidder Verification - Online Service

Vehicle Restoration

If the vehicle to be restored is five model years old or newer, it must be brought to a DMV Inspection Station for completion of the Authorization for Vehicle Restoration prior to whatever repairs. Vehicles may not be restored, titled or registered unless this has been completed. This is not necessary for vehicles six model years onetime or older.

Authority for Vehicle Restoration (VP 209)

Garages, body shops and rebuilders must repair vehicles to the mutual standards published and practical in the automotive repair manufacture. Air bags and seat belts must be repaired to the standards gear up in federal law. The business must keep records of the repair including whatever identifying data of parts.

When the reconstruction has been completed, the Certificate of Inspection must be completed by a Nevada registered garage, licensed body shop or licensed rebuilder.

The vehicle must then exist brought to a DMV inspection station for completion of the Certificate of Inspection. In one case this is accomplished and all other registration requirements have been met, the vehicle may be registered and titled. The vehicle may be sold once the new title has been issued.

All future titles will exist a normal Nevada Certificate of Title but will exist "branded", which means the title will be labeled with the word "Rebuilt" or other advisable term. The make cannot be removed.

Certificate of Inspection/Affidavit of Construction (VP 064)
Certificate of Inspection/Affidavit of Structure - Motorcycles (VP 064M)
Certificate of Inspection/Affirmation of Structure - Trailers (VP 223)
Nevada Engine Bandy Fact Canvas (EC 054)

Vehicle Title with Rebuilt brand

Salvage Vehicle Laws and Penalties

Whatever person who transfers an interest in a motor vehicle in this state shall, earlier the transfer, disclose in writing to the transferee any information that the transferor knows or reasonably should know concerning whether the vehicle is a salvage, rebuilt or reconstructed vehicle. (NRS 487.830)

A person shall not remove, crusade to be removed or conceal a marking on:
(a) A salvage title or other title which indicates that the vehicle is a salve vehicle; or
(b) A document of title or other championship for a rebuilt vehicle which indicates that the vehicle is a rebuilt vehicle. (NRS 487.840)

Violations are felony criminal offenses if the vehicle is valued at $250 or more. Courts may order jail terms, fines and restitution.

Any purchaser or lessee too may bring a civil accommodate against the offender. If successful, the purchaser will be awarded court costs, attorney'south fees and whichever of the following is greater:

Three times the amount of bodily amercement;
Five 1000 dollars; or
Actual damages and such punitive amercement as may exist allowed past the court.

You may not remove any salvage vehicle from the State of Nevada with the intent to sell it without commencement obtaining a Relieve Title.

Chapter Number and Title	Statutes	Code
Affiliate 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases	NRS	NAC
Chapter 487 - Repair, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles (Body Shop and Garage)	NRS	NAC

Non-Salvage Rebuilt Vehicles

Certificate of Inspection for Rebuilt Vehicles (Non Salvage) - (VP 064A)

Vehicles which have had certain repairs must be titled every bit Rebuilt even if they do not meet the definition of a salvage vehicle. This applies to any vehicle that has had one or more than of the following major components replaced:

Cowl associates;
Rear clip associates;
Roof assembly;
Floor pan assembly;
Conventional frame coupled with one boosted major component
Complete front inner structure for a unibody

These vehicles must exist inspected by a licensed garage or torso shop and the DMV using the Document of Inspection for Rebuilt Vehicles (Non Salve). The existing championship must be surrendered to the DMV, which will issue a championship branded "Rebuilt".

A vehicle for which the only change is the installation of a truck cab associates is not considered a rebuilt or salve vehicle.

Championship Questions

Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles
Central Services and Records Division
Salvage Unit
555 Wright Way
Carson City, NV 89711
(775) 684-4785
(775) 684-4493 fax

Contact DMV

Contact for Dealers, Body Shops and Repair Garages

Contact your local DMV Compliance Enforcement Segmentation function.