http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/title-washing-a-wreck.html personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:22:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/title-washing-a-wreck.html/comment-page-1#comment-65621 Mark Dobson Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:46:00 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=225#comment-65621 This is absolutely true. Every time there's a hurricane or a flood individuals and dealers are desperate to unload flood cars. They'll ship these cars as far away as possible so that car buyers won't suspect that their new ride was underwater six months ago. You really have to do your homework before you purchase a car these days. Here's another good article about <a href="http://www.fraudguides.com/auto-title-washing.asp" rel="nofollow">title washing</a> that goes into even more detail. You have to look for more than just water damage. People will try to pawn these crap cars off on if they were wrecked. I knew a guy that bought a car that was 2 separate vehicles at one time. They had been welded together! How safe is that? This is absolutely true. Every time there’s a hurricane or a flood individuals and dealers are desperate to unload flood cars. They’ll ship these cars as far away as possible so that car buyers won’t suspect that their new ride was underwater six months ago. You really have to do your homework before you purchase a car these days. Here’s another good article about title washing that goes into even more detail. You have to look for more than just water damage. People will try to pawn these crap cars off on if they were wrecked. I knew a guy that bought a car that was 2 separate vehicles at one time. They had been welded together! How safe is that?

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