vagrant

If you buy your bike back directly from insurance (after its been written off), are you required have it pass a roadworthiness inspection at DOT/elsewhere? Im pretty sure you didnt have to in TX.

Thanks in advance.

FastCat

Yes. The WSP will issue a tag to be affixed to the frame and it will be forever a title branded with "salvage".

Daves929

Actually, it will have a "rebuilt" title after it's been inspected. A salvage title implies not being roadworthy. Rebuilt is after it has been inspected by WSP, and thus issued a "rebuilt" title. No different, you just can't sell your bike for as much, and insurance will only cover a percentage of the similar value of a clean title machine if you were to get in another accident.

vagrant

soooo... to answer my question:

If you want to put it back on the street - yes.
If you dont - no.

you guys are saying WSP - Washington State Police. Surely this would be done by WSDOT right?

Next question, for those that have done it. Is it tough to get through inspection here? I need to know how much effort it could be to get aftermarket lighting passed. Ive seem some pretty dodgy setups getting around town, but they could have been done in a situation not requiring an inspection - ie not totalled through insurance.

wordsareforplay

WSP has to do the inspection.

Linked for her pleasure. Eewwwwwwwwwww

vagrant

ta. still interested in hearing from people who have been through it.

ninjaofdoom

Mine was inspected years ago, they never changed the title from salvage to rebuilt.... /shrug

james1300

You buy the salvage back, make it road worthy and take ALL the paper work (reciepts) to WSP inspection (Get an Appointment). After you get it inspected Pay $68.00 inspection fee. You can then get a new title and plate.

ninjaofdoom

yepper, i did all that. meh, i can ride it now kinda....

vagrant

I don't see why receipts are necessary. What if, say, you were to buy secondhand parts from others' parted out bikes to rebuild it - you're not likely to get official receipts from those purchases. So long as its roadworthy, it shouldnt be a problem. Just sounds a little retarded wrt receipts.

Also, if the receipts are to prove repairs have been done - how are they to know the extent of the original damage? Is there some record of the estimate filed somewhere? (doubt it). I could see there being issues if you rocked up with a single receipt - for plastics - and them calling bullshit on you, even though that may have been all that was necessary to get it back to roadworthy condition.

shelbyguy

just try and get some parts on ebay, and get recipts from pay pal,
they want them as proof you didnt get the parts off a stolen bike.
they wont know the extent of the damage, they will know what you tell them.

Ive bought cars back from ins totals and all in all it was pretty simple just try and make sure everything works.
worked for me

vagrant

Thanks mate. Im an idiot - I didnt think about the whole "stolen parts" aspect. duurrrrrrrr!

FastCat

Yeah - the whole thing is pretty tedious for someone who is just trying to put a ride together on a budget - but if people with crashed bikes didn't buy stolen parts, bikes wouldn't get stolen so often.

odin544

And if the people selling stolen parts were honest enough to tell you they were stolen, the people crashing their bikes wouldnt buy so many stolen parts

gixxerjeff

the zed 10 will live on!

vagrant

maybe. If nothing else, as a trackwhore. Really there is nothing mechanically wrong with it. Insurance is draggin their collective lard-arse.

vagrant

Bumping this thread for anyone that ends up in my position:

You do not have to get an inspection if you keep your bike
(the requirements have recently been changed)

Mine cost me 5 minutes at a local DOL and $19 to get changed from "salvage" to "rebuilt". If you sell it as salvage, the new owner is required to get an inspection done to transistion to a street-legal rebuilt title.