Car insurance vehicle buy back question

I read on here a few days they are letting people just keep their flooded cars

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In Louisiana, if a car is totaled by an insurance company due to flood, the insurance company is required to notify the OMV of this and apply for a title carrying a certificate of destruction. The certificate allows the car to be sold for salvage, parts, scrap, etc., but from that point the car can never be registered for road use or insured in the State of Louisiana again.

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False. I have a salvage due to flood Porsche in my garage right now that was purchased back from the insurance company here in Baton Rouge. The car is titled, registered, and fully insured for an agreed upon amount.

Edit- The more I think about it the more I don't think the salvage title says anything about how the car was salvaged.

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False. I have a salvage due to flood Porsche in my garage right now that was purchased back from the insurance company here in Baton Rouge. The car is titled and registered.

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True. If it was registered after 2005 (lots of wet cars coming out of NOLA that year, for some reason), someone broke the law and it's illegally registered. What's your address so I can notify the OMV so they can put the certificate of destruction on the title so you don't sell your flooded car to someone else?

You have to get a certificate of destruction for a flooded car

EDIT: Of course, this is if the car was registered in Louisiana when it flooded. If it was registered in another state when flooded, there may be a way around it.

False.

My family had a TJ that took salt water over the dash in Katrina. Insurance totaled it and it was bought back for $2200. After few cans of WD40, silicon spray, and a complete fluid change ($400), it's still going strong today. It's titled, registered, and insured.

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False.

My family had a TJ that took salt water over the dash in Katrina. Insurance totaled it and it was bought back for $2200. After few cans of WD40, silicon spray, and a complete fluid change ($400), it's still going strong today. It's titled, registered, and insured.

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You can say false all you want. Was it titled after Dec. 6 2005 on a flood buyback? It's illegal. Just because you have an illegally titled car doesn't mean that the law making it illegal doesn't exist. Read the citation I linked to.

Also, we're talking about TOTALED cars, so if the cars you guys have weren't totaled, then all bets are off and I shall refrain from notifying the OMV. The law I cited applies only to cars that were bought by an insurance company and totaled due to water damage, which is defined elsewhere. Something like 75% of the total value of the car in damage to engine, powertrain, computer, etc., due to water.

But, the OP was asking about buying back flood totaled cars from the insurance company.

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You can say false all you want. Was it titled after Dec. 6 2005 on a flood buyback? It's illegal. Just because you have an illegally titled car doesn't mean that the law making it illegal doesn't exist. Read the citation I linked to.

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You're wrong.

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That is all.

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Don't get too excited, it's a non turbo.

It's a salvage title, you get to make it whatever you want.

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And you clearly have not read the LAW I cited. I didn't just make that up. I didn't link it from someone's blog. That link goes to the online copy of the Louisiana Revised Statutes. You can refuse to read the law or believe what the law says, but it doesn't make your car any less illegally titled.

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I'm not sure you understand the law you cited.