Jump to content

Is Your Title Washed?

unit731

By unit731
in Future GM News & Rumors

Recommended Posts

unit731 Senior Enthusiast

unit731

Posted
Posted

Arlena Sawyers

Automotive News

September 8, 2008 - 12:01 am ET

 

 

Nearly 15 percent of the 1.3 million vehicles that were severely damaged by collisions, bad weather or fire in the first half of 2008 now have clean titles that do not identify that damage, a new study concludes.

 

More than 185,000 cars and trucks that were issued titles indicating their damage had those brands removed when the vehicles were retitled in another state, says Experian Automotive.

 

Edie Hirenstein, senior product manager of Experian's AutoCheck vehicle history service, said the number of title-washed vehicles in the first six months of this year was about the same as in the year-ago period.

 

As the country enters the peak hurricane season, she says, the industry must redouble its vigilance about rebuilt flood cars and other wrecks.

 

Experian has compiled information on 600 million cars and trucks from departments of motor vehicles in all 50 states and Washington. The study examined what happened to title-branded vehicles when they got new titles in other states, Hirenstein said. The study did not include vehicles that were at least 10 years old.

unit731 Senior Enthusiast

unit731

Posted
  • Author
Posted

The salesperson told me that the used truck was only driven on Sundays by a retired minister.

sillyazz Enthusiast

sillyazz

Posted
Posted
My truck was only driven by a porno star... She only drove it when she was hammered and it came with a matress in the back... Not sure why tho :P

And you were wondering what those nasty stains were on the inside ? :rolleyes:

GMAnimal Enthusiast

GMAnimal

Posted
Posted

Insurance companies are greedy whores. They will sell their vehicles wherever the best money is and to whoever will pay it. They don't give a care about who gets stuck with them in the next life.

merlin5577 Senior Enthusiast

merlin5577

Posted
Posted
Insurance companies are greedy. They will sell their vehicles wherever the best money is and to whoever will pay it. They don't give a care about who gets stuck with them in the next life.

 

Sad........but true. :rolleyes:

Zembonez Senior Enthusiast

Zembonez

Posted
Posted
Insurance companies are greedy whores. They will sell their vehicles wherever the best money is and to whoever will pay it. They don't give a care about who gets stuck with them in the next life.

I see tons of "salvage" title vehicles at auction and most are bought by Mexican or Oriental "builders" to be fixed and sold to retail customers. I'm sure the fixes are anything BUT done right. Insurance companies ARE whores.

 

I've seen Suburbans that were burnt into an unrecognizable pile go for 5,000 bucks. They are buying the VIN and a title so they can convert a stolen Suburban into that one and sell it. You think the insurance companies don't "know" what the hell is going on when they get that much money for a pile of burnt metal?

 

INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE WHORES.

certifiedcustom Enthusiast

certifiedcustom

Posted
Posted
Insurance companies are greedy whores. They will sell their vehicles wherever the best money is and to whoever will pay it. They don't give a care about who gets stuck with them in the next life.

I see tons of "salvage" title vehicles at auction and most are bought by Mexican or Oriental "builders" to be fixed and sold to retail customers. I'm sure the fixes are anything BUT done right. Insurance companies ARE whores.

 

I've seen Suburbans that were burnt into an unrecognizable pile go for 5,000 bucks. They are buying the VIN and a title so they can convert a stolen Suburban into that one and sell it. You think the insurance companies don't "know" what the hell is going on when they get that much money for a pile of burnt metal?

 

INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE WHORES.

 

 

And now our friends have a bunch of water cars to work on/with...Yikes!

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Latest Articles

  • Posts

    • ryan35205
      Lets Talk Z60 Suspension

      By ryan35205 · Posted

      Did the KYBs keep it the same height in the front? I was concerned that pre-assembled assembly would raise it up an inch to standard non-z60 height.. I guess which it would make the rake 1 inch instead of 2 inches.
    • Grumpy Bear
      OCI, not when but why?

      By Grumpy Bear · Posted

      Thank you for keeping the train on the tracks and for a thoughtful engagement. I enjoyed the reflection on a previous stance to refine and improve your position. I like that inquisitive flexibility about you Atlas.    No the process isn't sterile. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles of piping, vessels, pumps. Chevron, the people I worked for, were keenly aware that there is a market for what is known as their "ISOCLEAN" line of lubricants. These are lubricants that are the same as those sold bulk that are further processed by filtration to a level your particular application demands. They will filter and package and provide lab documentation as required. Do not kid yourself. Every gallon of oil that goes into a Chevron Turbine, reciprocating compressor, generator is prefiltered and tested before being charged. Lest wise it was when I was there in the plants I worked in.    There are requirements set by manufactures for the cleanliness of the oils used in their equipment. OTR such as CUMMINS has standards shared with customers on this. Commercial interest selling to Ma and Pa do, but don't share that information. Not even upon request but internally, they do exist.    The GM study sited, (Graph from Machinery Lubrication in previous post) only shows "relative" importance.  I find that fascinating. By constructing the graph like this they admit there are dozens of factors in engine life and via scientific method determined the effect of 'relative cleanliness' on engine life not in miles but in 'FACTORS'. This allows a certain amount of reverse engineering does it not?   They even provided some touchstones. Beta 75 as a reference point. Wonderful stuff!!   Smaller blenders CAN and some DO take the time and effort to do better than a refinery or large bulk blender, like Warren Oil, in improving the "in the can" cleanliness. No I don't have a list but testing could generate that information.    Again, but one of several levers we can pull to improve engine life. The simplest is keeping a clean work station while doing your own oil changes.     
    • Mykel544
      New Guy from Oklahoma

      By Mykel544 · Posted

      Thank you. I'll give it a try 
    • Grumpy Bear
      OCI, not when but why?

      By Grumpy Bear · Posted

      I just spent the last 45K miles doing samples every oil change over more than a full year to get the data for seasons and break-in to broke in.    I found the same thing to be true. Something was always teetering on done or had stepped off the cliff long before the OLM was DOA. In fact, I found about a thousand mile difference between summer and winter. That is during the winter half the OLM was STILL too long. Even the severe schedule was to long in the winter.   Now having done the work I can say I was NOT DISAPOINTED. I saw nothing I didn't already know. Nothing my father hadn't already demonstrated in his 2K OCI's pushing dated iron on dated oils and weak filters to mileages well beyond 300K.   Building on his work through use of Lab testing it wasn't hard to find the correlation between 'sight/feel/odor, the things dad relied on, and test results. Use of current viscosity stable chemistries & filters has pushed that marker for my motors out to 3K summer, 4K winter.    So the early lies were 3K on conventional oil and the lie upon the lie was 7K+. turns out to be off by a factor of two.    So... it is true that modern chemistry has doubled the useful oil life. But the base milage that came from was off by double. It's how good lies work. Partly true, sometimes mostly true so that your meter isn't set off. It also means that non-shear-stable shelf oils are only now as good as the old oils were in their best case scenario.    So the question now is how do we improve on that? Thus the question into cleanliness among the other items listed in the post quoted below.    If this bores you, feel free not to participate.       
    • newdude
      2027 Chevrolet Silverado: Official Discussion

      By newdude · Posted

      Is it though?  Like LTZ, not a high take rate.  Current Sierra has AT4, Denali and Elevation as its main bread winners.  Each trim accounting for 25-35% of sales for Sierra.  SLT makes up about 10-15% at best.        Like others have predicted here for GMC, it will be:   - Pro (equal to WT Chevy)   - Elevation (replaces SLE and SLT)   - AT4 (and X)   - Denali (and Ultimate).  

  • GM-Trucks.com Clubs

  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...