Tens Of Thousands Of Vehicles Damaged By Sandy Turn NY Airport Into Vast Used-Car Purgatory

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9. You have absolutely no way of knowing that unless you are in the business.

And I am, so I am telling you that what you are suggesting is unlikely.

The variation of damage in a situation like this will be large, with only a certain percentage having been flooded or affected by salt water. Many will have been damaged by simply having a branch fall on them, others in wrecks, still others because the owners did something stupid like leaving the windows open.

These days it is much harder for a dealer, "unscrupulous" or not, to simply "snapping them up and reselling to the unsuspecting buyer".

The fact that IAA has them pass through their system will flag the VIN with that fact and that is easy to discover with just a few moments online. IAA handles wrecks and non runners as a matter of course. When they sell a unit, either through an online auction or at a site, the title is noted with that fact as well as whether or not it is a "Salvage" unit.

As I said in my post below, I'll wager that large numbers of them will be bought for sale overseas, where the controls present in North America are not so stringent, not to mention they will be repaired and sold on the cheap.