QuestionWe were looking at buying a 2005 dodge grand caravan Sxt from a dealer, but it has a salvage title. 56,000 miles. They are asking $6500 for it, or willing to take "reasonable" cash offers (whatever that means).
They did send me the carfax on it, and it does not say it was in an accident, it just goes from a clean title, to a salvage title. And the dealer says they don't know why either.
Is their anything else we should be looking at, or checking? This is much lower than we've been able to find, and as long as it runs, I don't believe we plan to sell it. We tend to run cars until they die in my family...I'm still driving a 96 Chevy Caviler with over 250,000 miles on it. haha
I'm just really worried that the frame will be messed up, or something serious. The exterior and interior look very good, almost new.
Any tips/advice on this matter would be appreciated.
Answervery briefly (been out of town and super pressed for time)
it is possibly branded as a stolen /recovered vehicle alot of which have no issues at all other than the misfortune of being declared a total loss by a paying insurance co. If you plan on keeping this van forever (branded titled vehicles are very difficult to sell and banks will NOT finance them as a rule) then get it thoroughly inspected and low ball the guy the rule of thumb should be to pay no more than 50% of the trade in value on kbb.com thats how dealers would value it ...and not a dollar more. (only after you are able to verify the reason for the brand with DMV) feel free to ask any follow ups you need to ask on this my personal email is roadloans@gmail.com sorry this was a bit late my goal is for you to be completely satisfied with my answers or to keep asking them until you are ...lol follow ups to my private email will get returned almost immediately thx roger
