A clean car title is one that is free of outstanding loans from previous owners and free of a salvage or accident history. Clean car titles significantly increase a used car's value.
Features
A clean car title includes the name of the current owner and vital information about the vehicle, like the vehicle identification number, and the auto's make and model.
Identification
A clean car title can be identified quickly by looking at it. A clean title is printed on thick stock and in some states is multicolored. It should be free of indications such as "Salvage," and it should be free of lien holders listed on the front.
Misconceptions
Even if a vehicle has a clean title, it does not indicate the automobile has an accident-free history. If an accident was minor or was not reported to the authorities, the title is still clean.
Types
A clean title is one of three types of titles. The others are salvage titles--titles used for vehicles repaired after major accidents--and rebuilt titles, issued for vehicles built by combining the frames of two vehicles.
Warning
If a used car's title is not clean, the car's value will be much lower than if the title were clean. There are no pricing guides for salvage and rebuilt vehicles, so determining a fair price to pay is difficult.
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