Can You Register As A Salvage Online

Salvage Vehicles

Tip

Do not buy a vehicle with an orangish-colored salvage title. The vehicle must exist rebuilt before it is sold to a private party.

Consumer Tips/Afterward a Crash

A vehicle that has been issued an orange-colored salvage title may not be registered in Nevada until it has been inspected by a Nevada registered garage, Nevada licensed trunk shop 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 within 30 days
- Give up 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 Section within 60 days for standard event plates or within xxx days for special plates. You will receive a credit toward another registration.
Run into Plate Surrender/Refunds. Y'all must transfer or surrender the plates earlier you cancel the liability insurance if you intend to retain ownership of the vehicle and register it in your proper noun.
If you have collision/comprehensive insurance coverage

If y'all accept collision/comprehensive insurance coverage

Your insurance company volition determine whether your vehicle meets the definition of a salvage vehicle. They will aid you in completing the Salvage Title Procedures.

You may transfer ownership to the insurance visitor or to a DMV-licensed salvage pool, automobile sale, rebuilder, automobile wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer.

Or, you and your insurance visitor may agree that you can retain the vehicle.
If you do non have collision/comprehensive coverage

If you do not have standoff/comprehensive coverage

It is your responsibleness to assess whether the vehicle meets the definition of a salvage vehicle.

If at that place is a loan or lease on a vehicle, you must notify the lienholder inside 10 days and the lienholder must utilize for a Salvage Title inside xxx days.

If there is no lienholder, you must either utilise for a Salve Championship inside 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. Run into Salvage Title Procedures.

You lot may not sell the vehicle without starting time obtaining a Salvage Title. You may not sell the vehicle to a individual party without rebuilding it.
If yous retain a salve vehicle

If you lot retain a salvage vehicle

Read and follow all of the procedures on this folio carefully. A rebuilt vehicle must be inspected by a licensed garage or trunk shop and the DMV earlier information technology can be sold or registered. It is the owner's responsibleness to complete these steps and obtain a standard blueish Nevada title before the sale.

If y'all retain the vehicle merely choose not to rebuild it, you tin sell information technology only to a DMV-licensed salvage pool, machine auction, rebuilder, automobile wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer.

Improperly selling a salvage vehicle can be a serious felony criminal offence. Sellers must disembalm in writing that the vehicle is a salvage vehicle. Meet Salvage Vehicle Laws and Penalties.

What is a Salvage Vehicle?

"Salvage vehicle" means a motor vehicle that at any time has been declared a total loss vehicle, flood-damaged vehicle, non-repairable vehicle or had "salvage" or a like give-and-take or designation placed on whatever title 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 any part of the vehicle, would exceed 65 percent of the fair market value of the vehicle immediately before the impairment was incurred. Vehicles with less than 65 percentage harm are non considered salvage vehicles.
Overflowing Damaged - A vehicle that has been submerged in water to a point that the level of the water is higher than the door sill of the vehicle and the h2o has entered the passenger, trunk or engine compartment of the vehicle and has come into contact with the electrical system of the vehicle; or a vehicle that is part of a total loss settlement resulting from water damage.
Non-Repairable - A vehicle, other than an abased vehicle, that has value only as a source of parts and scrap metal, or has been designated by its possessor for dismantling, or has been stripped of all torso panels, doors, lights, etc., or has been burned or destroyed beyond a restorable status.

Relieve vehicles in Nevada are issued an orange-colored Salve Championship. A salvage vehicle may not be registered or operated on any public street until it has been rebuilt and inspected. Once a save vehicle has been repaired, information technology 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 exist restored to operating condition.

Older Vehicles

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

If the vehicle requires more than repairs than this, the 65 percent harm rule applies. For example, the 65 pct rule would apply if the grill, front end bumper and one headlight assembly were replaced. If only the hood, the grill and the bumper were replaced, the 65 percent rule would not employ and the vehicle would not be considered a salvage vehicle.

Rebuilt Vehicles (Non-Salvage)

Vehicles which take had certain repairs must be titled as Rebuilt even if they practise not meet the definition of a salvage vehicle. See Non-Salve Rebuilt Vehicles.

Relieve Championship Procedures

Publications

Salvage Vehicle and Non-Repairable Vehicle Certificate Guide

Wrecker and Tow Machine Guide (currently undergoing revision - check back soon)

Obtain a Salve Championship

When a vehicle has been damaged to the extent it becomes a salvage vehicle, an orange-colored Salvage Championship must be issued. The responsibility to consummate this process rests with:

The insurance company if the company declares the vehicle to exist a total loss.
The lienholder, if whatsoever, if there is no comprehensive/standoff insurance. The registered owner must notify any lienholder of the damage to the vehicle inside 10 days and the lienholder must utilize for a save title within 30 days.
The registered owner, if at that place is no insurance or lienholder and the owner wishes to retain the vehicle. The owner must submit the electric current title and an Application for Salvage Title (VP-213) within thirty days. The owner has the option to sell the vehicle to a DMV-licensed save pool, automobile auction, rebuilder, car wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer. If this occurs, the licensee is responsible for obtaining the Salvage Championship.

Run across NRS 487.800 for details. The DMV will issue a Salvage Title or Non-Repairable Vehicle Document to the new owner (the insurance visitor or DMV licensee) or to the current possessor (if the vehicle is retained) within two business days after the section'south Central Services Division has received the properly completed application, current championship and other documents.

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

Encounter Bonded Titles if y'all do not accept proof of vehicle ownership and cannot contact the previous possessor.

Awarding for Salvage Title or Not-Repairable Vehicle Document (VP 213)
Insurance Company Affidavit Without Endorsed Title (VP 236)
Donation Affidavit without Endorsed Title (VP 275)
Unrecovered Vehicle Championship Asking Form (VP 243)
Application for Individual Bidder Identification Carte du jour (OBL 250) | Data (OBL 257)
Private Applicant Sale Study (OBL 258) - Excel Spreadsheet, Legal Size
Private Bidder Verification - Online Service

Vehicle Restoration

If the vehicle to be restored is v model years one-time 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 non 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 be repaired to the standards set in federal constabulary. The business organization must continue records of the repair including any identifying information of parts.

When the reconstruction has been completed, the Certificate of Inspection must exist completed by a Nevada registered garage, licensed trunk shop or licensed rebuilder.

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

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

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

Vehicle Title with Rebuilt make

Relieve Vehicle Laws and Penalties

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

A person shall not remove, cause to exist removed or conceal a marking on:
(a) A salve title or other title which indicates that the vehicle is a salvage vehicle; or
(b) A certificate 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 than. Courts may social club jail terms, fines and restitution.

Whatsoever purchaser or lessee also may bring a civil suit against the offender. If successful, the purchaser volition be awarded court costs, chaser'southward fees and whichever of the post-obit is greater:

Three times the corporeality of actual damages;
5 thousand dollars; or
Bodily amercement and such punitive damages as may be immune past the court.

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

Affiliate 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 (Torso Shop and Garage)	NRS	NAC

Not-Salvage Rebuilt Vehicles

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

Vehicles which accept had certain repairs must exist titled as Rebuilt even if they do not meet the definition of a salvage vehicle. This applies to whatsoever vehicle that has had one or more than of the following major components replaced:

Cowl associates;
Rear prune assembly;
Roof associates;
Floor pan assembly;
Conventional frame coupled with one additional major component
Consummate forepart inner structure 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 Save). The existing championship must exist surrendered to the DMV, which will issue a championship branded "Rebuilt".

A vehicle for which the only change is the installation of a truck cab assembly is non considered a rebuilt or salvage vehicle.

Title Questions

Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles
Central Services and Records Division
Salvage Unit of measurement
555 Wright Manner
Carson Urban center, NV 89711
(775) 684-4785
(775) 684-4493 fax

Contact DMV

Contact for Dealers, Body Shops and Repair Garages

Contact your local DMV Compliance Enforcement Sectionalisation function.