So I wanted to get y’all’s opinion here.
A little background: I bought a fully restored ‘78 FJ from a dealership here in South Carolina in cash about 2 months ago for about $30K.
The dealership called because they’ve been trying to transfer the clean SC title over to me over the last 2 months. Yes, we confirmed it’s clean - they sent me a copy from the previous owner when it was traded in.
Now the SCDMV is saying there were actually multiple NC titles and an SC title on the FJ and they want to put a mark (salvage or rebuilt) on the title since they don’t know what the real history of the vehicle is. The dealership mentioned they’re going to keep trying to work on the DMV to get me a clean title but if that doesn’t work, the dealership offered a couple options:
1. Offer me some cash back for the FJ.
2. Buy the vehicle back (essentially a refund).
What would you do? Any other advice here to get a clean title? Obviously love this FJ and would prefer to keep it but in the chance that they can’t get one, what are y’all’s thoughts on getting money back? Everything I’ve read is a marked title is worth 20-40% less on the resale. Picture below for reference
Thanks y’all
A little background: I bought a fully restored ‘78 FJ from a dealership here in South Carolina in cash about 2 months ago for about $30K.
The dealership called because they’ve been trying to transfer the clean SC title over to me over the last 2 months. Yes, we confirmed it’s clean - they sent me a copy from the previous owner when it was traded in.
Now the SCDMV is saying there were actually multiple NC titles and an SC title on the FJ and they want to put a mark (salvage or rebuilt) on the title since they don’t know what the real history of the vehicle is. The dealership mentioned they’re going to keep trying to work on the DMV to get me a clean title but if that doesn’t work, the dealership offered a couple options:
1. Offer me some cash back for the FJ.
2. Buy the vehicle back (essentially a refund).
What would you do? Any other advice here to get a clean title? Obviously love this FJ and would prefer to keep it but in the chance that they can’t get one, what are y’all’s thoughts on getting money back? Everything I’ve read is a marked title is worth 20-40% less on the resale. Picture below for reference
Thanks y’all