Katrina Salvage Titan

[rico387]

Many of us were wondering when the Katrina vehicles would start showing up. I just saw this one on eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Nissan-Titan-TIT...QQcmdZViewItem

[Vegas04]

i'd buy that in a heartbeat if I were shopping for a new one. that guys gonna' make some serious money.

[buzzkillwill]

That almost makes me sick to see that, for a few reasons...

First, it's a Titan...

Second, who knows how many salvaged vehicles will be sold to unsuspecting people over the next 6 months to a year. Look at that truck, it looks brand new! Maybe it didn't get flooded, or maybe it did, who knows....??

[rcantu]

I wonder how much "thousands less" he's selling for. he must have gotten it in auction at a deal too

[4x4creature]

Okay it has a $36,500 window sticker , for a 2wd Titan, if you take what Ford has discounted brand new F-150's for, some where around 8000 off list just as max discount figure, which if Nissan did the same on a blow out sale, would make it 28,500 . Now take a salvage value of at least 50% current market value 14 250....if you bought it at 12 to 15 grand that would be one hell of a deal even if you had to put 2 or 3 grand in it.....

[kman]

since it is salvage i can't imagine there would be any factory warranty come with it.

[TexasTitanXE]

Hurricane Katrina ruined maybe a half-million vehicles. To help stop flood cars from becoming fraud cars, Carfax is making all its flood info. available to consumers and dealers free of charge on a special page at

www.carfax.com/flood

At the Web site, potential buyers or interested parties can enter the VIN of a car and search Carfax's records for any evidence of Katrina damage. Carfax has also tagged all vehicles whose last registration was in the ZIP Code of an area affected by the disaster and attached a special consumer advisory suggesting the car be checked by a mechanic b/c of the possibility that it was damaged in the disaster.

In addition, the National Insurance Crime Bureau has set up a special search engine at its Web site

www.nicb.org

where anyone can enter a VIN number and determine whether that number matches any of the hundreds of thousands of VINs collected from cars in the disaster zone.

The above info. is courtesy of Car and Driver January 2006 issue.

[Bayou Titan]

Out of all those pictures I would like to see one of them that shows the high level water mark before it was cleaned up.

[Bayou Titan]

Originally Posted by wdavidsharp

Hurricane Katrina ruined maybe a half-million vehicles. To help stop flood cars from becoming fraud cars, Carfax is making all its flood info. available to consumers and dealers free of charge on a special page at

www.carfax.com/flood

At the Web site, potential buyers or interested parties can enter the VIN of a car and search Carfax's records for any evidence of Katrina damage. Carfax has also tagged all vehicles whose last registration was in the ZIP Code of an area affected by the disaster and attached a special consumer advisory suggesting the car be checked by a mechanic b/c of the possibility that it was damaged in the disaster.

In addition, the National Insurance Crime Bureau has set up a special search engine at its Web site

www.nicb.org

where anyone can enter a VIN number and determine whether that number matches any of the hundreds of thousands of VINs collected from cars in the disaster zone.

The above info. is courtesy of Car and Driver January 2006 issue.

Ok, I entered the VIN number (1N6BA07A66N5072100) of the Titan listed in the eBay add above in Carfax's free search of flooded vehicles. What did I find? "No Flood Damage Records Found"

[QShip]

Huh! Go figure!

[Bayou Titan]

The National Insurance Crime Bureau search got it right!

[Bassomatic]

Rico--I like the description of your truck....any pictures??

[pi3yeargrad]

Originally Posted by Bayou Titan

Ok, I entered the VIN number (1N6BA07A66N5072100) of the Titan listed in the eBay add above in Carfax's free search of flooded vehicles. What did I find? "No Flood Damage Records Found"

urs says 06 titan and his says 05...

[DryHeat]

Originally Posted by pi3yeargrad

urs says 06 titan and his says 05...

The label on the fuel door says it's an '06.

[BLKingTitan]

That is definately an '06. The tenth digit of the VIN is the model year identifier.