How to fill out Wyoming MV-600

A Wyoming salvage title comes with restricted registration, which is the state's polite way of saying the vehicle is not going back on the road on that paper. This application is how it does: the department issues a rebuilt salvage decal, the owner sticks it on the vehicle, law enforcement inspects the identification number, and the whole file then goes to the county clerk for a title and plates. Four numbered steps on one page - who you are and what the vehicle is, who rebuilt it and what was wrong with it, a sworn affidavit that no stolen parts went into it, and the Cheyenne address it gets posted to. There is no fee for the decal, which makes it the cheapest step in a very expensive process.

Written against MV-600 (9/22), issued under WYDOT Motor Vehicle Services under W.S. 31-2-108; the decal is issued by the department and the title is issued by the county clerk. The sentence in the affidavit about stolen parts is the one to slow down on, because it is sworn to the best of your knowledge and a rebuild is usually somebody else's work. If the vehicle was rebuilt by a yard or a friend, ask for the receipts for the major components before you sign - not because the department demands them here, but because the sentence you are signing is a felony exposure if it is wrong, and the person who put the parts on is not the person signing.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank MV-600 from the dot.state.wy.us copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our MV-600 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Every line, in the order you meet it

1. 1
   You fill this in

   Get the Wyoming salvage title first

   Apply at the county clerk's office for a Wyoming salvage title with restricted registration, in your own name.

   Watch out: The clerk's office hands you this application at the same visit. If somebody has sent you this form without a salvage title in your name, you are a step early.

2. 2
   You fill this in

   Applicant and vehicle

   Your name exactly as it appears on the salvage title, your contact details, then make, year, identification number, model, body style and the Wyoming title number.

   Watch out: Exactly as it appears matters here more than usual - the department is matching this application against a title record that already exists.

3. 3
   You fill this in

   Name the rebuilder in full

   The person or business that rebuilt or repaired the vehicle, with a daytime phone and a physical address.

   Watch out: A shop's trading name and its physical address are both wanted. A mobile number and a first name is the version that comes back.

4. 4
   You fill this in

   Describe the damage properly

   What was wrong with the vehicle before the repair, in the deep box that must be completed in order to process.

   Watch out: Write it as a list of what was damaged and what was replaced. Panels, structure, mechanical, airbags - the department is judging whether this is a repair or a reassembly.

5. 5
   You fill this in

   Post it with the title copy and the photographs

   A copy of the Wyoming certificate of title branded salvage and photographs of the repaired vehicle, to Motor Vehicle Services at the Cheyenne address in step four.

   Watch out: Take the photographs in daylight from all four corners. This is the department's only view of the vehicle and a dark phone picture of one wing does not help you.

6. 6
   You fill this in

   Fit the decal where the form says

   Driver's side door jamb on a car; on a motorcycle, the fork crown, without obscuring the identification number.

   Watch out: Do it as soon as the decal arrives and before you book the inspection. Clean the jamb first - a decal that lifts is a decal that gets queried at the next sale.

7. 7
   Somebody else fills this in

   Get the identification number certified, then go back to the clerk

   Law enforcement inspects the vehicle and signs the certification that comes with the decal, and the whole file then goes to your county clerk for titling and plates.

   Watch out: Book the inspection where the vehicle is, not where you are. A rebuilt truck that is not road legal yet cannot lawfully drive itself to a sheriff's office.

What gets this one rejected

• •Applying before the salvage title exists. The route starts at the county clerk with an application for a Wyoming salvage title in the owner's name, and the clerk's office is what hands you this form.
• •Leaving the damage description thin. The form says it must be completed in order to process, and a line reading repaired front end tells the department nothing it can assess.
• •Naming yourself as the rebuilder without an address. If you did the work, the block still wants a name, a physical address and a telephone number, because somebody may ring to ask about it.
• •Sending it without the attachments. A copy of the Wyoming certificate of title branded salvage and photographs of the repaired vehicle travel with the application; the form says so in capitals above the affidavit.
• •Fitting the decal after the inspection. The instruction is explicit that application of the decal must be completed before the Wyoming law enforcement inspection, and an officer who arrives to find no decal will not certify anything.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

• •Hail and theft are outside it. The form's own note excludes vehicles deemed salvage from hail or theft from the rebuilt decal requirement. In a state with Wyoming's summer storms that exclusion covers a great many branded titles.
• •Out-of-state salvage has to come inside first. A vehicle arriving with an out-of-state salvage title must get a Wyoming salvage title and apply for the decal before it can be registered here. There is no route that skips straight from another state's salvage paper to Wyoming plates.
• •The decal is free and everything around it is not. The department states there is no fee for a rebuilt salvage vehicle decal. The salvage title, the inspection, the new title and the plates are all charged separately at their own counters.
• •Two agencies, three counters. The salvage title and the final title come from the county clerk, the decal comes from the department in Cheyenne, and the identification number certification comes from law enforcement. Nothing in this chain happens twice in the same building.
• •The brand is still there afterwards. A rebuilt salvage decal does not remove the brand from the title - it lets a branded vehicle be registered. When you sell it, the disclosure statement is still due.

Every line here was read off MV-600 (9/22) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Wyoming Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Services 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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