How to fill out Texas ENF-SAL-221

The acknowledgement a buyer signs when they take on a salvage-titled vehicle. It is on this list because it is the seller who has to put it in front of them - and because it is one page that prevents an argument later.

Top of the blank Texas ENF-SAL-221, Disclosure of Salvage Motor Vehicle, as the agency publishes it

Step 1 · the form itself Blank ENF-SAL-221 — Disclosure of Salvage Motor Vehicle PDF at txdmv.gov · new tab View the blank ENF-SAL-221

Top of our filled-in example of Texas ENF-SAL-221, Disclosure of Salvage Motor Vehicle

Step 2 · how to fill it in Our filled-in ENF-SAL-221 guide PDF · 2 pages · 430 KB · new tab See our filled-in example

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank ENF-SAL-221 from the txdmv.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our ENF-SAL-221 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Written against ENF-SAL-221 (Rev 08/16), issued under Texas Transportation Code 501.0925. The sentence that matters is the last one: the buyer may not drive it on a public highway until a rebuilt salvage title and registration have been issued. Somebody driving a salvage car home from your driveway is doing something this form told them not to.

Last updated August 22, 2026.

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual ENF-SAL-221, rendered from the PDF the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles publishes and completed end to end: letterhead, every field, and the blocks at the foot.

Amber — you write it
Grey — not yours to fill
Numbered — explained below

A Texas ENF-SAL-221 salvage motor vehicle disclosure filled in: year 2014, make Chevrolet Silverado 1500, VIN 3GCPCREC8EG178403, the printed name of the purchaser Amado Quintanilla in the acknowledgement sentence, the flood damage box ticked, and the purchaser's signature and the date 13 June 2026 at the foot. — The actual ENF-SAL-221, and the only page in this set where the writing is not yours. The seller fills the three vehicle lines and hands it over; everything from the purchaser's printed name down belongs to the buyer, which is the whole point of it.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
You fill this in
Year and make
Two short lines at the top identifying the vehicle.
Watch out: This is all the vehicle description the form asks for - there is no model, body style or plate. Fill it before the buyer arrives so the conversation is about the car rather than the paperwork.
2
You fill this in
VIN
The vehicle identification number, on its own line.
Watch out: Copy it from the salvage title, then check it against the car. A disclosure attached to the wrong VIN protects nobody.
3
The buyer fills this in
Printed name of purchaser
The buyer writes their own name into the sentence that begins the acknowledgement.
Watch out: The sentence is first person - I acknowledge that at the time of purchase, I am aware that the motor vehicle is titled on a salvage title. It is their statement, so it is their handwriting.
4
You fill this in
The flood damage box
Ticked only where the vehicle is classified as a salvage motor vehicle based solely on flood damage.
Watch out: Solely is doing real work in that sentence. A car that was flooded and then also wrecked is not a flood-only salvage, and ticking the box anyway misdescribes it.
5
The buyer fills this in
Purchaser's signature and date
The buyer signs and dates, acknowledging what they have read above it.
Watch out: What they are signing includes the sentence that matters most to both of you: they may not drive this salvage motor vehicle on a public highway until after a title branded rebuilt salvage and registration have been issued. Somebody driving it away from your kerb is doing what this form told them not to.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Year, make, VIN	Three lines identifying the car. Nothing else about the vehicle appears.
Printed name of purchaser	The buyer, not you. This is their acknowledgement.
What they are acknowledging	Three things, pre-printed: that they know the vehicle is on a salvage title; that if they intend to operate it lawfully they must apply for a title through a Texas county tax assessor-collector's office with forms showing repairs have been made, and pay the fees; and that they may not drive it on a public highway until a title branded rebuilt salvage and a registration have been issued.
The flood box	Ticked only where the vehicle is classified as salvage based solely on flood damage.
Purchaser's signature and date	Theirs.

What gets this one rejected

•Signing it yourself. Every line on it belongs to the buyer.
•Skipping the flood box on a flood car. Flood history is exactly what a buyer later says they were not told.
•Handing over a salvage vehicle without it. The disclosure is the record that they knew.

Every line here was read off ENF-SAL-221 (Rev 08/16) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles pages. This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ, theirs governs.

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How to fill out Texas ENF-SAL-221

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Year and make

VIN

Printed name of purchaser

The flood damage box

Purchaser's signature and date

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Forms that go with this one

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