2014 with rebuilt title ?

CobraG

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I found a 2014 GT500, 16K miles for $38K, however, it has a rebuilt title from an accident it was in.
The accident was on the passengers side rear quarter panel. Dealer says car has been fully repaired and looking at the pictures you can’t tell it’s been in an accident.
It’s a five hour one way drive from my house. I’d be trading a 2013 5.0 for it, my car has 29K miles and some mods, it’s paid off.
Any advice on a rebuilt title? Given this info, is this a good deal or should I pass?
That’s a long drive just to find out something’s wrong or I don’t like it.
 

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Find out who or what dealer did the repairs and get a copy of the repair bill to give you an estimate of what damages occurred.

Car could be perfectly fine but have it checked out by someone you know or trust.

You can probably get it for cheaper than $38K but just remember you wont get close to the value if you ever try to resell it.

We have a member on this forum who has brought 2 heavily damaged 13/14 GT500s and repaired himself. It may be a poster Talon???
 

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I was gonna mention 38K is a lot. My 13 with 70k miles but still warrantied is about 32-35K last times I got it trade in valued
 

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This is my salvage title shelby. It got totaled because the previous owner wouldn't take a car that had the airbags deployed in it. Set all 4 bags off in a super light hit. Guy drove the car home from the accident, and I could have when I bought it too. Had about 8k worth of damage if I had some repair shop do it all. Never even needed to change the alignment.

A salvage title car is something to enjoy and drive. It's always going to be tainted to the public. My car is nice enough that no one believes me that it was wrecked, sounds like that ones the same way.

A hit in the quarters of these cars is expensive because the quarters have to be cut off the car, and the new ones welded back on. It's time consuming and the quarters can be expensive if bought new. So a light hit, including rear bumper and trunk lid, and maybe a door, gets expensive quickly. Insurance companies know that this type of car has an owner that will be very picky on how his car is fixed, and will push to total it, to avoid the extra expenses and headaches.

I'd say at 38k it's an ok buy because of the fact it's only got 16k miles. Its probably a mid 40k car with a clean title.

Have the car checked out by a local body shop. A decent shop can do a 5 min walk around and be able to tell you what he thinks. If the body work is straight and of good quality, and the car drives well and takes a 4 wheel alignment with good results, and the damage was truly just a rear quarter, there isnt much else to worry about on the car besides the typical mechanical stuff.

You cant drive a piece of paper, but you can go out and hop in your car and drive it. When my car is doing a second gear burnout on the highway past my buddy's 17ss, I cant say as I remember that it's got a branded title ;-)

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Google the VIN, one can usually find pics from the auction where it was sold out of.
If you plan to mod and keep it, it doesn't really matter. Only if you plan to sell does it become an issue.
 

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Your best bet is going to look it over and driving it to a good body shop to look it over.
IMHO, I wouldn't pay $38K for a salvage GT500. I'd rather spend the extra couple grand and get a clean one. Now if it was $30k, that would be a completely diff story.

Personally, I have seen this with too many cars I have owned. If they have been in an accident, the car was cursed from there. Not ness due to the accident and getting it fixed, just dumb anomolies the rest of the ownership and weird shit would happen.
 

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Your best bet is going to look it over and driving it to a good body shop to look it over.
IMHO, I wouldn't pay $38K for a salvage GT500. I'd rather spend the extra couple grand and get a clean one. Now if it was $30k, that would be a completely diff story.

Personally, I have seen this with too many cars I have owned. If they have been in an accident, the car was cursed from there. Not ness due to the accident and getting it fixed, just dumb anomolies the rest of the ownership and weird shit would happen.
You wont own a nice 16k mile gt500 for 30k. Whoever built it, has way more than that in it.

If it's nice, and repaired correctly, I'd want to have 35k in the car. But if its optioned the way you want, what's another grand in the long run?

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You wont own a nice 16k mile gt500 for 30k. Whoever built it, has way more than that in it.

If it's nice, and repaired correctly, I'd want to have 35k in the car. But if its optioned the way you want, what's another grand in the long run?

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I get what it costs to fix cars, but we all know dumping $20-30k into cars does not make them worth more.
For a tainted title car, I would not be paying within a few grand of what a clean title one goes for. I'd much rather have a higher mileage clean title one. People tend to forget the lower mileage ones tend to be thrashed on more and are usually the ones with incidents on their records.

All Im saying is for any sane person to consider a rebuilt title car, the price would have to be stellar! We all know every single one of us looks through ads and as soon as we see accident or salvage/rebuilt title, we click onto something else unless its a retarded price that makes you rethink all logic. lol. Lets be real here
 

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I googled the Vin, looks like it was in a pretty bad accident. The car was also on ebay at one point for $35K. So that would be my starting point if we decide to take a look at it.
 

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No. After googling the vin.
There's accidents, and than there's totaled the **** out.

My logic: if you drop $35,000 for it, your gonna invest more time, money, and headache exceeding the $45,000 mark.

And at $45,000-$48,000 there are nice units out there, w/ a clean piece of paper.
 

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No. After googling the vin.
There's accidents, and than there's totaled the **** out.

My logic: if you drop $35,000 for it, your gonna invest more time, money, and headache exceeding the $45,000 mark.

And at $45,000-$48,000 there are nice units out there, w/ a clean piece of paper.
Oh, this one was messed up?
 

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No. After googling the vin.
There's accidents, and than there's totaled the **** out.

My logic: if you drop $35,000 for it, your gonna invest more time, money, and headache exceeding the $45,000 mark.

And at $45,000-$48,000 there are nice units out there, w/ a clean piece of paper.
+1. Based on the photos, that car sustained a LOT of damage - definitely not driveable without extensive repair. I'd look for another one.
 
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More red flags than green flags IMO. If it was me, I'd pass for the reasons already stated. If my budget was very tight and I absolutely wanted a 2014 now, I might take a look at it and have someone check it for me. Other than that, to me it wouldn't be worth the potential headaches nor worrying about resale when and if I were to re-sell it.

There's a lot of good advice offered in the above posts that hopefully will not only help the OP now, but help others in a similar situation in the future who land on this thread.
 

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