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Clean Title

A title with no salvage, rebuilt, flood, lemon, or other branding.

What it means

A clean title means the vehicle has no recorded insurance total loss, flood damage, lemon-law buyback, or odometer-rollback brand. Clean-title cars generally sell for more at auction, which means a larger tax deduction for the donor. Most everyday vehicles donated to Cars Helping Kids have clean titles.

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