Two Saturday's ago the left CV joint broke, two days later - Monday I got T boned. I was driving at 35mph and a guy pulled out of a driveway and T boned my xB passenger side.
The car was perfect, 104k, new tires, AC works well, I loved it. Friday, the insurance company said it's totaled, find out this week what I'll get and if I want to keep the car what that costs.
Pillar between the doors is twisted, passenger doors and rear qtr panel need replaced, no roof buckle, it's straight and the rest of the panel alignment looks even across the undamaged part of the car.
Any idea what a fair price to fix this would be in Las Vegas or nearby? I love the car but if it's going to be a constant problem after the repair, whistling windows, doors that don't fit right, headaches... I don't want to do it.
Has anyone had a similar repair? How did it turn out? Does a repair like this make it a salvage title?

 

ouch....

 

Insurance replied if repair is greater than 65% of car value it's totaled, they said I can keep it for 2k and it would have a salvage title. It was FUN while it lasted!

 

If you have the time and space, you can make your money back very easily by parting it out.

 

good idea, I wish I had the time and the space and I would do that.

 

I recently, had my hot lava totaled out by my NJ car insurance. My insurance car value with 50K miles $9500.00. Salvage value was about $2400. They quoted $6400. car damage. Car was very repairable with another driver hitting me on the driver side at 5 mph. Dents in front wheel panel + doors, Front bumper rip on side, blew my front tire + someone dented the rear quarter panel to make it complete LOL. My body guy repaired + plus painted my whole car with a 2 tone paint job for 5G's cash. After all said + done, I walked away with $2G's in my pocket. And due to NJ MV laws no salvage title cause the car just met the requirement of being 8 yrs old. What a great NJ loop hole

 

Nicely played!