Maybe I’ve been watching too many Tavarish videos but would you ever take the risk and buy a salvage Porsche? I love Targas and found a sweet looking one on copart with very little cosmetic damage. Buy it now price is $72k so it seems more than worth it in the right circumstances.
Have owned at least half a dozen prior salvage vehicles that I purchased myself from auction. Absolutely nothing wrong with it if you know what you’re doing when selecting and repairing. There is zero quality difference between professionally manufactured and professionally remanufactured. Ignore all these comments talking out of their a**. If you have no personal experience with it, how do you know enough to throw out all these negative things? A few basic rules I follow. No water damage. No mechanical damage. No frame damage. Run and drive verified vehicles only. Oh yeah, the whole insurance thing is bs too. Once the vehicle has passed a highway patrol inspection and a safety inspection, you are then issued a prior salvage title, and in the eyes of any insurance company it is no different than any other vehicle.
Yea this is absolutely correct, there’s a lot of garbage about salvage cars that gets repeated especially in the Porsche world by guys who think they’re Ayrton Senna and that the car “won’t feel the same” after it’s had a minor head-on repaired. They don’t realise that literally every Carrera Cup or Porsche Supercup 911 has literally been rebuild over and over but gets dialed back in perfectly each time. My current car is the first non-salvage car I’ve ever owned, and I’d happily enjoy the discount they come with again in the future. The only way to tell the current condition and state of a car is to put it on a lift and carefully inspect it, making guesses based on how clean or dirty the title is leads you to make poor guesses.
Don’t you feel that you have a lot of ‘if’ statements to be so dismissive of the alternate opinion?
I’m not being rude, but your thesis is that basically you agree salvages are just like a regular car, or we are just dumb and don’t know anything.
But to arrive at that conclusion, you have to (per your writing) have a set list of things to look for (presupposing you can get that perfectly right every time or even that you won’t be scammed).
You have to deal with a professional remanufacturer (I used one for my rs7 that one of the largest rs dealers in the country subs work to. They painted it the wrong color, dear lord, what else do these pros get wrong?).
And then there’s your insurance statement. I was actually curious, because every brain cell I have says that there’s zero chance what you wrote is true. So I researched it. So either you’re wrong, or every insurance company’s page on salvage is lying.
I’m not being rude, maybe you’ve had great luck and that’s awesome. But you’re making definitive statements that are broad, then having a basically best-case-scenario outcome that isn’t backed up by any evidence.