About RALS Auto Sales — used cars in Clovis, CA

RALS Auto Sales is an independent, family-run used car dealership on Barstow Ave in Clovis, California, serving buyers across Clovis, Fresno and the wider Central Valley. We hand-pick every vehicle that comes onto our lot, and we disclose title status — clean, rebuilt or salvage — up front on every listing. No surprises, no fine print.

If you are weighing one up, what a salvage title actually means in California is written out in full, including the cars we would tell you not to buy.

Most of our inventory is priced under $10,000 — dependable pre-owned cars, trucks and SUVs built for everyday Central Valley driving. Financing is available on most vehicles, and we'd rather earn your business with a fair deal than pressure you into one.

RALS Auto Sales is family-run — the same people who choose which cars come onto the lot are the ones who show them to you and who work on them in our own shop afterward. We opened in 2024, so if you are looking for a business with decades of history in Clovis, we are not that. We would rather be upfront about being newer and let how we handle every sale earn the trust that usually comes with time.

Every car on the lot went through the same steps before it got a price tag: we bought it, drove it, and our own shop checked it over and smogged it — only then does it go up for sale. Keeping the lot small is deliberate. There are usually between two and six cars here at any one time, because reconditioning a car properly takes real hours in the bay, and we would rather do that for a handful of cars than rush it to fill a bigger lot.

Six of the thirteen cars we have ever listed carried a salvage or rebuilt title. The cheapest car we have ever listed was $5,499, and we have never had anything under $5,000. Below that in this market you are generally looking at private-party sales, cars with real mileage on them, or something the seller has not mentioned, and we would rather send you looking there honestly than pretend we have something we do not.

Keeping the lot that small is a trade we make on purpose, and it does mean the honest answer to “what have you got?” is sometimes “not the thing you came for”. That is why the other three things happen in this building too. We source cars to order, we run the repair shop, and we buy cars outright — and on most days those are more use to somebody who has just been told their transmission is gone than a forecourt of six cars is. A full list of what we do runs from sourcing a car to order through to buying yours as it sits.

And if the car you are weighing up is on somebody else’s lot or in a private driveway, bring it here before you hand over any money. We will put it on the lift and tell you what we find, whether or not you ever buy anything from us. A pre-purchase inspection in our Clovis shop usually costs a fraction of the repair it turns up. Inspections are billed at $125 per hour. A standard pre-purchase inspection takes about 1 to 1.5 hours.

Every car we list states its title status — clean, salvage or rebuilt — before you ask. Carfax is available on request.

We say it out loud because the alternative — leaving it for you to discover once you are already sitting down to sign — is the practice that gives used car lots a bad name. If you are weighing a salvage or rebuilt title car specifically, our guide above walks through what buyers actually need to know before deciding, including when we would tell you to walk away.