Just last week, the owner of a New Jersey car dealership pleaded guilty to selling some of the 230,000 vehicles damaged during Hurricane Sandy. The cars had been listed as “for parts only” on their titles, meaning they cannot legally be sold as functioning vehicles. The Asbury Park Press reported that the dealership owner, Jonathan Olin of Manalapan, bought the cars at auction and obtained doctored titles from a former New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission employee.
Read About Secret Lying Behind Used Car,beware!. North Carolina came in second place on CarFax’s list, with about 74,266 title washed cars. Mississippi was third, with 57,213. A federal database of car titles exists: It’s called the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System, and was created by the Department of Justice in 2009 to protect consumers from title washing. But the data in the federal system is incomplete. Some states don’t supply information on totaled cars to the database, and others don’t make inquiries to the system before providing clean titles to people. The lack of a national, comprehensive titling system creates issues for consumers like Eric Foertsch, a 48-year-old father of three living in Connecticut. Foertsch bought a used car earlier this year from a dealer he’d met on Craigslist. The dealer, Motown Auto Sales in Detroit, Michigan, didn’t tell Foertsch that the car had been totaled in 2011 in California and branded as a “salvage” vehicle.
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