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- Start hereAnnouncements, the forum rules, and your first post.3 channels
- Auctions & biddingCopart, IAA and the other sources — bidding, fees and lots.5 channels
- Shipping & logisticsInland transport, ocean freight, customs and forwarder experiences.5 channels
- EU conversion & homologationLighting, speedometer, paperwork and technical inspection in each country.5 channels
- Parts & sourcingWhere to find parts, OEM versus aftermarket, dismantlers and tools.5 channels
- Repair & rebuildRebuild logs, bodywork, EV and hybrid, airbags and coding.5 channels
- Business & marketPrices, starting an import business, taxes and scam alerts.4 channels
- SalvageAlertProduct help, feature requests, bug reports and the API.4 channels
- The loungeEverything that does not fit anywhere else.1 channel
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Four in five flood lots are recorded as driving. That is the least useful fact about them, and it is the one people buy on.
Texas, California and Florida are a quarter of the catalogue. And 86,714 lots carry no title brand at all — which is the number worth understanding.
Tesla is half of it, the average EV carries more than twice the value of an average lot, and the drive-status rate is 13 points lower. The numbers, from the catalogue.
This channel only works if people post outcomes. Here is the shape that makes one useful.
Five things in the first post turn a week of back-and-forth into one reply.
The number stamped on your broken part is the key to every catalogue in Europe. What TecDoc is, and where cross-referencing goes wrong on a US car.
The platforms are marketplaces, not shops — you are buying from a dismantler you cannot see. Five checks, one of which is written into law.
One search across recycler inventories in the US, Canada and Mexico — and the number that tells you which other cars your part also came from.
There is no EU-wide ban on fitting a used airbag to a car on the road — yet. The list everyone quotes is about building new cars. That changes in 2028.
The tools a first salvage rebuild stops for, in the order it stops for them.
Auction fees as a share of the bid, from $500 to $20,000, computed from the published schedules.
The interval you set, the interval the poller enforces, and the rule that changes one into the other.
Front end is more than half the catalogue, the repair estimate averages ~90% of the car's value, and the drive-status numbers are not what people assume.
18% of Copart US lots we hold have run more than once, most of them back in the lane inside a week. What that does to your bidding.
72 hours, a certified copy plus two complete copies, an ITN, and the three lot types that cannot be exported at all.
Salvage, rebuilt, junk, flood, lemon and Not Actual Mileage — where the definitions come from and why they differ by state.
Warum es die Einzelgenehmigung nach § 13 EG-FGV nicht ist, was die Vollabnahme kostet — an Umbauten — und welche Zahlen seit dem 1. Juli 2026 anders sind.
Akcyza, VAT, badanie techniczne przed pierwszą rejestracją i dokumenty, których naprawdę zażąda urząd. Z podstawą prawną przy każdej liczbie.
What to include so somebody can answer in one reply instead of three.
Everything the editor supports, including the parts nobody finds by accident.
The rules, what the software does on its own, and what it deliberately does not do.
The report queue, what staff can and cannot do, and why nothing here is hidden silently.
What this forum is for, who it is for, and what is already here.
Type 2 and CCS2 are what EU public chargers must have. What that means for a J1772 or NACS car, and where the real cost sits.
Amber rear indicators, a rear fog lamp, side repeaters and an asymmetric beam. Not, on the harmonised route, daytime running lamps — and existing lamps do not need an E mark.
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