Yes, salvage or rebuilt titles lower a vehicles sale value. It depends on the vehicle though and how unique of a specimen it is or whom is purchasing it. For example, if you buy a woods truck with a rebuilt title, you really don't care. Or if you found a vehicle that has every single option with a rebuilt title, but that's the one you're looking for, versus one that doesn't have all of those factory options, with a clear title.. And you just want to use it to cruise on the weekends, or have in your collection...
Perhaps it is the only one you can find that has all of those factory options available, that reminds you of your long lost Platinum White 2000 Sport Premium that had all the factory options you looked for and the exact same interior as yours, that by now, you're never likely to see one just like it. For reasons like this, you may pick the one that has the rebuilt title. There are
many factors to consider!
A friend may wish to inform you that perhaps that was not the point of a statment that friend may or may not have made, that you may or may not be referring to, and in fact, the point has skyrocketed over your head. But that's for another topic of discussion. Let's all stay on topic, naturally.
Anecdotally, I have a friend who is nearing 70. Veteran, retired air force. Anyway, he collects ****ty old Fords. Actually just the ****tiest. You would not believe what this guy pays for his Fords that needed beyond belief work. Some of them he buys from friends, so he doesn't mind spending the extra cash, some of them he doesn't buy from friends. Some he does buy pristine and "wise, objective" investments. Turns out there's lots of collectors like these. He has a 70's Mustang that needed only the most extensive work, but since it had some core features that he couldn't find somewhere else, he chose that one. He had one just like it when he was young, so that was the one he picked out. This guy's even engine swapping his Taurus SHO to a rare body color SHO because he used to own one. Rebuilt title. Imagine that... What a loon... Guess he's getting something out of it. Must be sentimental value or something, beats the absolute hell out of me. I only think in dollar signs and in objective black and white terms.
Funnily enough, it turns out, not all collectors are like the ones you see on YouTube. Some of them just have 5-30 cars in their back yard, or tractors, or trucks mixed in. Some collectors just buy stuff cuz it felt good when they saw something that was what they had once, or what their dead friend had, or.. You get the idea. Not all collectors buy to make a profit off of proposed investment. Lots of collectors collect what is
objectively junk, AKA what most of us spend lots of time and money on, our Explorers lol. It is however totally
subjective, to, and per, collector, what they are interested in.
