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Originally Posted by mopar34

I'm not saying stuff like that doesn't happen in PA, (they have gotten very strick on titling lately, especially street rods and reconstructed vehicles), but I would want to have the car really gone over well. By a mechanic (preferrably someone who knows Honda's) and a good body man or frame shop.

The price sounds good, but you don't want to be holding on to the steering wheel when the car is traveling in a different direction than what you are steering.

A couple of years ago my car was totaled by a deer. My insurer told me to give it, with the title, to a salvage yard. A year later some latino dude from Texas call me and said he had the car and needed my title. I told him I had given the title to the salvage company. The car was too messed up for them to fix it for me, but they sold it to someone else to drive??? Someone is always trying to make a fast buck.

This seems to happen the world over.Too many dangerous repairs have been carried out here,and for other reasons,like a stolen/recovery situation when a car is totalled in NZ,the vehicle is deregistered,and costs a considerable amount of money and inspection/paperwork to put it back on the road,so it doesnt happen very often now.

John, if that car was totalled out with only 7000 miles on it, that thing must have really been hit hard. Typically an insurance company will only total a car if the repairs exceed 80 percent of the value of the car. When I worked at the body shop we had cars towed in that we swore were going to be totalled out but the insurance company had them repaired instead. One was a Toyota pickup where we literally replaced the entire frame, bed, and front suspension with brand new components. We had to transfer every nut and bolt off of the old truck onto the new frame. The tab was huge, but they fixed it.

I would be very wary of this one, even though it is a good deal pricewise. There could be handling or mechanical issues that you might not know about, and you will always have a car that has a title that is suspect for any potential buyer down the road.

Don