Title reads "Reconstructed". Do I have to go through inspection?
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Re: Title reads "Reconstructed". Do I have to go through inspection? (feeling_sinister)
I just read a big article in Consumer Reports about salvaged and reconstructed Autos. The gist of what I can remember is that your car has already been salvaged and rebuilt. The denotation "Reconstructed" means the car was once a total loss wreck where the cost to repair the car exceeded 75% of it value. It has since been reconstructed and is up to par to be driveable. No inspection should be needed, but since I have never owned a reconstructed car, I cannot give you a 100% on that.
You will probably has a lot of problems with the car if it was poorly reconstructed. If you bought it really, really cheap, then watch out! Sometimes, these total losses are reconstructed for cheap using sub-standard practices. But there are those places that really know how to rebuild a wreck well. Hopefully, they rebuilt your GTI.
I just read a big article in Consumer Reports about salvaged and reconstructed Autos. The gist of what I can remember is that your car has already been salvaged and rebuilt. The denotation "Reconstructed" means the car was once a total loss wreck where the cost to repair the car exceeded 75% of it value. It has since been reconstructed and is up to par to be driveable. No inspection should be needed, but since I have never owned a reconstructed car, I cannot give you a 100% on that.
You will probably has a lot of problems with the car if it was poorly reconstructed. If you bought it really, really cheap, then watch out! Sometimes, these total losses are reconstructed for cheap using sub-standard practices. But there are those places that really know how to rebuild a wreck well. Hopefully, they rebuilt your GTI.
Re: Title reads "Reconstructed". Do I have to go through inspection? (feeling_sinister)
in CA it can get difficult from what I have read on CarFax. I almost bought a GTI that had a salvage title but it had no airbags. I was lead to believe that in order to pass CA inspection on salvaged cars, full documentation of where the car was purchased (at auction I presume), proof that all replacement parts meet O.E. spec, and who performed the work, etc. THe guy I was dealing with was shady, lied to me (vs. CarFax at least), and no one would finance or insure the car so I walked away.
in CA it can get difficult from what I have read on CarFax. I almost bought a GTI that had a salvage title but it had no airbags. I was lead to believe that in order to pass CA inspection on salvaged cars, full documentation of where the car was purchased (at auction I presume), proof that all replacement parts meet O.E. spec, and who performed the work, etc. THe guy I was dealing with was shady, lied to me (vs. CarFax at least), and no one would finance or insure the car so I walked away.
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