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New Mexico: total loss threshold and rebuilt title rules
What New Mexico’s own pages print, word for word. Kind of rule, by our sorting: Wording, no sum to do.
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When is a vehicle salvage or a total loss in New Mexico, in the state’s words?
“to the extent that the owner, leasing company, financial institution or the insurance company that insured or is responsible for repair of the vehicle considers it uneconomical to repair the vehicle and that is subsequently not repaired by or for the person who owned the vehicle at the time of the event resulting in damage”
“By rule, the declaration by an insurance company that a vehicle is a salvage or nonrepairable vehicle makes the vehicle a salvage vehicle or nonrepairable vehicle regardless of the relative amounts of repair costs versus fair market value.”
Citation as the page prints it: meets the definition of a salvage vehicle as defined in Subsection C of Section 66-1-4.16 NMSA 1978 of the Motor Vehicle Code.
(New Mexico Administrative Code 18.19.3 (State Records Center and Archives), read November 11, 2026)
The definition is quoted from the Motor Vehicle Division’s procedures manual. The statute site returned no text to a plain request.
We found no inspection fee on a page we could read.
Nothing to compute. We do not compute a money comparison from this quotation; the quoted words are what the state prints. States whose sentences can be computed are on the rule types page.
How do you get a rebuilt title in New Mexico, in the state’s words?
“Converting a Salvage Certificate to a Salvage Title requires a safety inspection from a certified safety inspection station and a VIN (vehicle identification number) verification from an authorized VIN verification agency.”
“NM has no certified safety inspection station programs.”
What fee does New Mexico print?
We did not find a fee sentence on an official page a plain request could read. That is our search coming up empty on November 11, 2026, not a statement that there is no fee.
Where are New Mexico’s official pages?
- New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division, Vehicle Procedures Manual chapter 9: Reconstructed, Rebuilt, Salvage and Nonrepairable Vehicles
- New Mexico Administrative Code 18.19.3 (State Records Center and Archives)
Official pages we asked for and could not read:
- New Mexico Statutes chapter 66 on NMOneSource: on November 11, 2026 it sent back a page with no statute text in it.
Every quote above was matched word for word against its page on November 11, 2026. If one has changed, tell us.