In California, if the insurance company declares your vehicle a total loss, you may retain the "salvage" for its value, which is deducted from the settlement. However...the insurance company notifies the DMV and the DMV then issues a salvage title to you and updates their records to reflect a salvage title, which then shows up on Carfax, etc.. In other words, in this state, whenever there is a total (or a theft recovery) the vehicle automatically gets a salvage title whether you like it or not. Geoff Monterey CA ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to iml.webmonster@xxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm