This last thursday I was in a car accident. A rough quoted estimate from the repair shop said costs would be about $7,500 for front end damage.

I do have insurance and a adjuster is coming tomorrow to look at the car. The mechanic said that he believes it is "fixable" but I'll be up a creek if insurance deams it to be totalled.

Has anyone had similiar experiences?

I can't afford for my insurance to deam it totalled; what do you think my options are?

 

You need to tell us year, model, miles, special equipment, etc., and post pictures befoe we can make any meaningful comment.

 

Sorry, first time poster. heh...

it's a 2006 mini hardtop. 48k miles.

I do have adaptive equipment for a left footed gas pedal...I'll try and link pictures in a few.

 

Hard to comment, have no idea what you're driving or what's it's worth.
Insurance will total a car if repairs exceed 70-75 %. Possible hidden damage, not seen until a teardown at the shop.

 

let me know if my link doesn't work

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds...N06&lang=en-us

 

Any Pictures of Damage?

 

link doesn't work

 

Link works for me.

But, as mentioned, pictures of the damage would really help.

 

added pics to the RSS feed. so if you refresh, they should be there.

Damage is mostly just on drivers side. Passanger side mostly is untouches but with minor scratches

 

all i'm seeing is the underlying code, might be my browser.

 

Here you go:

 

Oh thats $7k+ damage right there. I had a small fender bender and it cost $3.5k to get it fixed.
Just an idea of what my damage looked like. And I doubt it will be totaled. It has to cost more to fix it then it is worth or there is some serious unseen body damage. But not to get you down if that happens see if you can part some of it out. Just saying. Hope everything works out.

 

thats going to be close..do a kbb.com on your car and see what retail is for it..that will give you a rough idea..my buddy that works at a shop here in the KCMO area thinks its going to be close to 10k in damage...Was it leaking any fluids?

 

I don't think so

 

I've a friend whose daughter's car was totalled. He took the settlement, bought the car at salvage price, and fixed it.

Dunno if that works in your neck of the woods.

Cheers,

Charlie

 

Any word yet on what's going to happen?