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Originally Posted by tlynch
Well:
The insurance company has been heard from. They consider it a total. I think what they said was they stopped adding when they got to $5600 worth of damage observed while standing next to it. I still don't have a good idea what all went on under the hood, so there could still be some unpleasant surprises. I'll try to post their list later.
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That's got to be a tough one to take. I've been hit twice, and the second time (kid in a Honda Civic running a stop sign at 20-25 MPH) I was afraid the Corolla would be totaled (it wasn't).
A big part of the reason that the price leaps up so fast is the cost of paint matching/new aftermarket parts -- repairing a parking-lot incident (guy backed up into me, never looked) was appraised at over $1300 for the Corolla. We will finish repairing it soon, and the grand total will come out to about $300 or less (my labor, junkyard parts). If you can let the car sit, I would buy the car back from the insurance company, wait for good parts to come around, then throw them on -- either that, or part it out.
You must feel awful. I don't like it when I
get hit -- I can't imagine what I would feel like if actually hit/possibly injured someone else.
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