I was lookin at a bike with a salvage title and he added the front end from a 99 to his 97 and said that made it a salvage title.
2007-06-21 14:33:01 · 10 answers · asked by tyler b 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
Salvage means it's been wrecked. He didn't add parts, he replaced them. Big difference.
2007-06-21 15:29:12 · answer #1 · answered by Firecracker . 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A salvage title is usually given to a vehicle that the insurance company has declared totalled. For a motorcycle, this "totalling" can often be from cosmetic damage (plastic cowlings) which is more expensive to replace than the book value of the bike.
This isn't always the case though, so you have to carefully inspect a salvage title bike for things like frame damage, fork damage, and other not-openly-visible defects.
As for replacing a front end: That would not, in itself, cause a motorcycle to have a salvage title. Changing a frame might however, if the replacement frame was from a bike with a salvage title.
2007-06-21 15:31:26 · answer #2 · answered by Wyoming Rider 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Usually a bike is declared "totaled" when the frame is bent beyond usable status and is changed.
To get a new frame, the manufacturer requires that you cut the steering neck off the old frame (the vin #s are on that part of the frame) and mail it to them.
They will then send a new frame with a new title.
You can use a frame from a different bike, but you need the title from that bike to register your bike.
Any damage other than frame damage, can always be repaired (engine, forks, steering stem, plastics, electrical) so any non frame damage would not declare the bike as totaled.
Changing parts from one bike to another, will not require a salvage title.
It's the same as buying new parts to install on your bike.
2007-06-22 03:57:35 · answer #3 · answered by guardrailjim 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it doesn't. The bike was probably totaled out by the insurance company at some point.Changing out the front end would definitely not be reason for a salvage title.There was more damage to the bike than just the front end for it to have a salvage title.The guy is trying to pull a quick one on you.
2007-06-21 15:34:36 · answer #4 · answered by bill b 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No adding parts does not make it a salvage title. The term Salvage (at least in Washington state) means the vehicle has been declared totaled
2007-06-21 14:40:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
it didn,t get salvage title from changing the front end it would have a salvage title from being wrecked which is probably why he had to put on the other front end
2007-06-21 14:51:49 · answer #6 · answered by re2345 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not in California.
A salvage title is given to a vehicle that an insurance company or CHP inspection has declared "totaled." It may also be given to a vehicle that has been stolen, or a vehicle that has been donated to charity.
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