What do you Think!!!!!!!

[mike96]

Total or Salvage.


So here is the story. I had lent my car to a guy I work with because we have his 91 talon in my garage and to be honest it was a pain to go 20 miles and pick to bring him over to work on his car. So to do him a favor I let him drive my car. So here we are about a week later we finally get a call from the machine shop telling us that his engine is ready for pick up. He loaded up the car last night and this morning starts to head over to my place to start putting his car together. Coming up on the intersection of Jones and the 215 everyone is slowing down for a red light. Light turns green so the Mercedes at the front of the pack starts to go through the intersection then mashes on the gas pedal. My buddy sees this ambulance with lights only on (no siren) hits the intersection and blows trough his red light. He slams on the brakes and comes on to a complete stop only to get reamed by a ford excursion. Both drivers admitted to be doing about 55 at the time, the witness that gave a statement said my buddy came to a complete stop before the white line before getting shoved about 70 feet into the intersection. The best part is that the driver that hit my car admitted to being on the cell phone at the time. O-yea and neither airbag deployed.....by the way if you are curious i am 99.9% sure the car is toast....

 

[asrdave]

Go wild with your $2000 total-loss payout.

aint that the truth these insurance companies just want to get these cars off the road its too old for them to give you money and the value is too low for it to be fixed get a new shell keep everything else or part it out

 

[ToughTalon]

with the right tools and resources its fixable, i mean come on its metal.

That would take an expert auto-body tech to fix correctly. I didnt read the whole thread but I would guess if you got an estimate at a body shop, they would quote 150+ hours of labor time.

Scrap the car and move on with your life. The cost to fix that would triple the cost to buy a new car.

 

[e85_4g63]

To be honest man, the insurance company is going to total it. They really only care about paying the least amount possible. Sucks because we, myself included, love our dsm and the insurance company just wants to total them and send them to the scrap yard whether then fix them. It's hard to tell exactly from those pictures, but I'd say you have a very slight chance of them paying to have your car fixed. Very very unlikely though....

 

[Rob10_99]

I got $5k for my 95 awd for a total =)

 

[ttsrq]

I think it will be written off, I have seen alot less damage and a car is still wrecked. There might be alot of hidden damage that you cant see with out removing the bumper ex. bent frame etc. Good luck!

 

[leepen]

It will be totaled, but atleast no one was hurt. Its sorta hard to find anything DSM out here. Heck even picka part only had 6 total and of those 2 where 1st gen.

 

[mike96]

O-yea i know it. like i said i am certain it will be a total out. if they tell me anything else someone had better call an ambulance because I'll pass out from shock.

now the fun part getting the insurance people out to look at the car, coming up on two days and haven't herd a damn thing from them...dealing with insurance companies =