How To Register A Car With A Salvage Title

Salvage Vehicles

Tip

Do non purchase a vehicle with an orange-colored salvage title. The vehicle must be rebuilt before information technology is sold to a private party.

Consumer Tips/After a Crash

A vehicle that has been issued an orangish-colored salvage title may non be registered in Nevada until it has been inspected by a Nevada registered garage, Nevada licensed body store or Nevada licensed rebuilder.(NRS 487.860)

License Plates
License Plates

Remove your license plates from a totaled vehicle. You may:
- Transfer them to another vehicle inside 30 days
- Surrender them to the DMV and apply for a registration fee refund.
  (You must have a copy of the Salvage Title to apply for a refund.)
- Return them to the Department inside 60 days for standard effect plates or inside 30 days for special plates. You will receive a credit toward another registration.
See Plate Give up/Refunds. You must transfer or surrender the plates before you cancel the liability insurance if you intend to retain buying of the vehicle and annals it in your proper noun.
If you lot accept standoff/comprehensive insurance coverage

If you have collision/comprehensive insurance coverage

Your insurance visitor will determine whether your vehicle meets the definition of a relieve vehicle. They will assistance you in completing the Salvage Title Procedures.

You may transfer buying to the insurance company or to a DMV-licensed salvage pool, machine auction, rebuilder, automobile wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer.

Or, yous and your insurance company may agree that you can retain the vehicle.
If you do not have collision/comprehensive coverage

If you practice non take collision/comprehensive coverage

It is your responsibleness to appraise whether the vehicle meets the definition of a salve vehicle.

If there is a loan or lease on a vehicle, yous must notify the lienholder within x days and the lienholder must utilize for a Salvage Championship within xxx days.

If in that location is no lienholder, you lot must either apply for a Salvage Championship within 30 days or sell the vehicle to a DMV-licensed salvage pool, automobile auction, rebuilder, automobile wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer. See Relieve Championship Procedures.

You may not sell the vehicle without showtime obtaining a Salvage Title. Yous may non sell the vehicle to a private political party without rebuilding it.
If you retain a salve vehicle

If you lot retain a salvage vehicle

Read and follow all of the procedures on this page carefully. A rebuilt vehicle must be inspected by a licensed garage or body shop and the DMV before it can be sold or registered. It is the owner's responsibility to consummate these steps and obtain a standard blue Nevada title before the sale.

If yous retain the vehicle but cull not to rebuild information technology, you can sell it merely to a DMV-licensed salvage pool, car auction, rebuilder, motorcar wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer.

Improperly selling a salvage vehicle can be a serious felony offense. Sellers must disembalm in writing that the vehicle is a save vehicle. See Salvage Vehicle Laws and Penalties.

What is a Relieve Vehicle?

"Salvage vehicle" means a motor vehicle that at whatsoever time has been declared a total loss vehicle, flood-damaged vehicle, non-repairable vehicle or had "relieve" or a like word or designation placed on any championship issued for the vehicle.

Total Loss - A vehicle that has been damaged to the extent that the estimated cost of repair, not including the cost associated with painting whatever part of the vehicle, would exceed 65 percent of the off-white market value of the vehicle immediately before the damage was incurred. Vehicles with less than 65 percent harm are not considered salvage vehicles.
Flood Damaged - A vehicle that has been submerged in water to a betoken that the level of the water is higher than the door sill of the vehicle and the h2o has entered the passenger, torso or engine compartment of the vehicle and has come up into contact with the electrical system of the vehicle; or a vehicle that is role of a total loss settlement resulting from water impairment.
Non-Repairable - A vehicle, other than an car wreck, that has value but as a source of parts and fleck metal, or has been designated by its owner for dismantling, or has been stripped of all trunk panels, doors, lights, etc., or has been burned or destroyed across a restorable condition.

Relieve vehicles in Nevada are issued an orangish-colored Salvage Title. A salvage vehicle may not exist registered or operated on any public street until it has been rebuilt and inspected. One time a relieve vehicle has been repaired, it becomes a rebuilt vehicle and may be registered and/or sold if the proper procedures below have been followed. Non-Repairable vehicles are issued a Certificate and may non be restored to operating condition.

Older Vehicles

Vehicles x model years old or older are not considered salvage vehicles if the only repairs needed are a limited number of items. Specifically, the hood, the torso lid, and/or up to two of the following: doors, grill assembly, bumper assembly, headlight assembly and taillight assembly.

If the vehicle requires more repairs than this, the 65 percent damage rule applies. For example, the 65 percent rule would apply if the grill, front bumper and one headlight assembly were replaced. If only the hood, the grill and the bumper were replaced, the 65 percent dominion would not apply and the vehicle would non be considered a relieve vehicle.

Rebuilt Vehicles (Non-Salvage)

Vehicles which have had certain repairs must be titled equally Rebuilt even if they do not meet the definition of a salvage vehicle. Meet Non-Salvage Rebuilt Vehicles.

Salvage Championship Procedures

Publications

Salvage Vehicle and Non-Repairable Vehicle Document Guide

Wrecker and Tow Car Guide (currently undergoing revision - check back presently)

Obtain a Salve Championship

When a vehicle has been damaged to the extent information technology becomes a salvage vehicle, an orange-colored Save Title must exist issued. The responsibleness to consummate this procedure rests with:

The insurance company if the company declares the vehicle to be a full loss.
The lienholder, if any, if at that place is no comprehensive/standoff insurance. The registered owner must notify whatsoever lienholder of the impairment to the vehicle within 10 days and the lienholder must apply for a salvage championship within 30 days.
The registered owner, if there is no insurance or lienholder and the possessor wishes to retain the vehicle. The owner must submit the current title and an Application for Relieve Title (VP-213) within 30 days. The possessor has the selection to sell the vehicle to a DMV-licensed save puddle, automobile auction, rebuilder, machine wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer. If this occurs, the licensee is responsible for obtaining the Salve Championship.

Meet NRS 487.800 for details. The DMV will issue a Salvage Title or Non-Repairable Vehicle Document to the new possessor (the insurance company or DMV licensee) or to the electric current possessor (if the vehicle is retained) inside two business days after the department'south Key Services Division has received the properly completed application, current title and other documents.

Important: No other transfer of ownership may take place until the DMV has issued a Salvage Championship.

Run across Bonded Titles if you do not have proof of vehicle ownership and cannot contact the previous possessor.

Application for Salvage Championship or Non-Repairable Vehicle Certificate (VP 213)
Insurance Company Affidavit Without Endorsed Title (VP 236)
Donation Affirmation without Endorsed Title (VP 275)
Unrecovered Vehicle Title Request Grade (VP 243)
Awarding for Individual Bidder Identification Card (OBL 250) | Data (OBL 257)
Private Bidder Sale Report (OBL 258) - Excel Spreadsheet, Legal Size
Private Bidder Verification - Online Service

Vehicle Restoration

If the vehicle to be restored is five model years old or newer, it must be brought to a DMV Inspection Station for completion of the Authorization for Vehicle Restoration prior to any repairs. Vehicles may not be restored, titled or registered unless this has been completed. This is not necessary for vehicles six model years old or older.

Authorization for Vehicle Restoration (VP 209)

Garages, body shops and rebuilders must repair vehicles to the common standards published and applied in the automotive repair industry. Air bags and seat belts must exist repaired to the standards set in federal law. The business must keep records of the repair including any identifying information of parts.

When the reconstruction has been completed, the Certificate of Inspection must exist completed past a Nevada registered garage, licensed body store or licensed rebuilder.

The vehicle must so exist brought to a DMV inspection station for completion of the Certificate of Inspection. Once this is accomplished and all other registration requirements have been met, the vehicle may be registered and titled. The vehicle may be sold once the new title has been issued.

All future titles will be a normal Nevada Certificate of Title but will be "branded", which ways the title will be labeled with the discussion "Rebuilt" or other appropriate term. The brand cannot be removed.

Document of Inspection/Affirmation of Construction (VP 064)
Document of Inspection/Affidavit of Construction - Motorcycles (VP 064M)
Certificate of Inspection/Affidavit of Construction - Trailers (VP 223)
Nevada Engine Swap Fact Sheet (EC 054)

Vehicle Championship with Rebuilt brand

Relieve Vehicle Laws and Penalties

Any person who transfers an interest in a motor vehicle in this land shall, before the transfer, disembalm in writing to the transferee any information that the transferor knows or reasonably should know concerning whether the vehicle is a relieve, rebuilt or reconstructed vehicle. (NRS 487.830)

A person shall not remove, cause to be removed or conceal a mark on:
(a) A salvage championship or other championship which indicates that the vehicle is a relieve vehicle; or
(b) A document of title or other title for a rebuilt vehicle which indicates that the vehicle is a rebuilt vehicle. (NRS 487.840)

Violations are felony criminal offenses if the vehicle is valued at $250 or more. Courts may order jail terms, fines and restitution.

Any purchaser or lessee also may bring a civil conform against the offender. If successful, the purchaser will be awarded court costs, chaser'south fees and whichever of the post-obit is greater:

Three times the amount of actual damages;
Five thousand dollars; or
Actual amercement and such punitive damages as may exist immune past the court.

You lot may not remove whatever relieve vehicle from the Land of Nevada with the intent to sell it without first obtaining a Salvage Title.

Chapter Number and Title	Statutes	Code
Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases	NRS	NAC
Affiliate 487 - Repair, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles (Body Store and Garage)	NRS	NAC

Non-Salvage Rebuilt Vehicles

Certificate of Inspection for Rebuilt Vehicles (Non Salve) - (VP 064A)

Vehicles which have had sure repairs must be titled as Rebuilt even if they do not meet the definition of a salve vehicle. This applies to any vehicle that has had ane or more of the following major components replaced:

Cowl associates;
Rear clip assembly;
Roof associates;
Floor pan associates;
Conventional frame coupled with 1 boosted major component
Complete front end inner construction for a unibody

These vehicles must exist inspected past a licensed garage or body store and the DMV using the Certificate of Inspection for Rebuilt Vehicles (Not Salvage). The existing title must be surrendered to the DMV, which will upshot a championship branded "Rebuilt".

A vehicle for which the only change is the installation of a truck cab assembly is not considered a rebuilt or salvage vehicle.

Title Questions

Nevada Section of Motor Vehicles
Central Services and Records Division
Save Unit
555 Wright Fashion
Carson City, NV 89711
(775) 684-4785
(775) 684-4493 fax

Contact DMV

Contact for Dealers, Trunk Shops and Repair Garages

Contact your local DMV Compliance Enforcement Partition office.