I got into an accident with my '05 TSX a couple of days ago...

Got off after a long shift at work...fell asleep at the wheel and ended up rear ending a parked Mercury Mountaineer on my street... That car ended up having 4,900 in damages.

They are going to do estimates on my vehicle today...do you guys think its totalled?

here are the pics.

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holy crap. hope you're ok.

 

if the frame shifted... its basically done...

 

It looks like it may have damaged the engine...? The engine is at a funny angle.

I hope you're alright. The car does not look good.

 

Car looks totalled to me. I am assuming that you are ok since you were able to start this thread. Either way, I am sorry about your loss, and I hope that you can be in another TSX soon

 

Yep, I think you toast it. Glad you are Ok. Get out the wallet though, your insurance company is gonna come callin on renewal.

 

I'm glad your ok (assuming since you posted this) but as for damages, it takes a lot of damage to total a TSX due to value of the car. As for frame damage, these cars are unibodies, so there is no such thing a frame damage, they just take the piece off the car and put on a new one however, it will say frame damage in a car fax. This is what i was told by the shop who fixed my car. It could bend your chasis, which is doesn't look like it did but good luck!

 

Ouch! Just a stab in the dark, but I'd say it's pretty much totalled.

Your hood looks like a tent. How fast were you going??

 

Thanks for all the comments guys...

I managed to get out with a bruised hip and a possibly fractured thumb...other than that...doing good.

I was doing about 30 mph before i fell asleep...im not sure if i sped up once i dozed off but not any faster than about 35 MPH...

 

Damn.....glad you're well enough to post...

 

+1

 

yeah is toast man... sorry to hear about that hope everything works out

 

damn.. does not look good.. sorry dude

 

dayum~~~

 

That'll buff out


All jokes aside, glad you are ok. Car = FAIL

 

it doesnt actually take that much to total a car....if the bags alone deploy....that an easy 4 grand right there.....assuming that you did damage to the motor also, wow....glad to hear you didnt get seriously hurt.....the estimate is gonna be high....remember, alot of shop now dont fix, just replace....saves time and money for them....

 

She's a goner but thankfully, you arent.

 

I think I read somewhere that the airbags don't depoly at less than 30mph so you were traveling at least that fast. Glad you came out of it relatively unscathed, and that no one else was hurt.

 

glad you're okay. can't say the same about the car though. isn't it usually that if the airbags deploy the car is considered totaled? or something along those lines

 

total loss is when the cost of repairs is more than the value of the vehicle.

 

sorry to say it but yes that is most likely going to be totalled.. you hit the passenger side = all the pulleys etc.... + both ur airbags deployed... =/
you can look around and see my wreck was the other side.. and not totaled but quoted at 8,600 to fix... get an 06+ this time! =) glad to hear your ok.

 

most insurance companies roll with the 70% rule, if the damages are more then 70% of the value of the vehicle the car is totaled


I learned this after a long process when my 99 Civic Si was totaled after a guy in a Madza truck ran a red light and the Civic ended underneath the truck


and to the OP, hope your OK, you can always get a new car, a new life isn't that easy and this is why we pay insurance for.

 

I am glad your Ok... Remmeber its the best time to buy a brand new 07 TSX.

 

Glad you are okay!

 

yea man just glad to hear you good, 4900 is nothing when it comes to you not hurt...


shows all of us what can happens when we fall asleep at the wheel

 

wow looks bad.....definitely looks totaled.

 

glad that you came out.

 

i assume you had a pssenger since the passenger air bags deployed??

 

Pull the fuck over next time if you are that tired.

 

glad you're ok and all but you could've kill someone

 

bye bye tsx... good thing you are okay. next time if you feel tired and your drive just pull over and give someone a call and tell them to come pick you up.

 

sorry about your accident but glad to know you are o.k. did you have a passenger since that airbag went off. if that is the damage to your car when you were going less that 35 MPH I would hate to see what the car would look like if you were going faster. My daughter's 04 hyundai accent had way less damage when she hit another car that made an illegal left turn in front of her when she was driving to work. she was going 50-55 MPH. the front of her car was damaged but it was not totaled. i hope you learned a hard lesson-tired-do not drive-sleep in the parking lot if you have to-next time you might not be so lucky

 

I did not have a passenger at the time...should the airbag not have gone off?

as far as pulling over...i was about 35 seconds away from my driveway...bad mistake i know, but i honestly thought i was going to make it....

I guess its true what they say about majority of all accidents occuring only miles from your home...in my case it was about 100 yards

 

^ I was told the passenger side air bag is always on, unless you install a module to turn it on only when a passenger is there.

 

maybe the cars in canada but the ones here the passenger air bag is off unless there is a passenger. there is a notification of whether it is on or not on the front dash above the hazard button.

 

Sorry about your accident......... I think the car's totaled, but I'm not an expert or anything. Just looks pretty severe in the front.

 

The car is doing its job. The front and rear is suppose to crumple in an accident to save the people inside. I think the car is totaled and would never drive the same again.

 

i personally dont think its totalled... im an insurance ajduster, and i write estimates all day. a total is dependant on many things... model year. mileage, condition of the car, i.e paint, exterior and interior trim. as well as the overall condition of the body and a few others to start... but anyway, most well equipped body shops have frame machines which can pull a bent frame rail to within a hundreth of a millimeter to stock (this is also dependant if they have the workers competant enough to do so) . so if there is frame damage that does not necessarily connotate a total loss. the same goes for airbags. granted they are expensive but if they are deployed it does not automatically mean the car is totalled. generally speaking a total loss for a car 7 years old or newer means that the damage has to meet or exceed 75% of the cars actual cash value. but dont go by the KBB, its wrong. the closest thing would be the NADA book but we as adjusters get that number from a lot of factors that are combined and calculated. with that said, other aspects include what insurance company you have and what labor rates they pay. using the program that i use to write estimates for my job and writing a VERY LIBERAL estimate i came around the 12 thousand mark which according my program is about 52% of the cars actual cash value. so on my end if i wrote the car it would not be a total. here in NY the damage would have to exceed, according to my program and labor rates, $17,074.50. however things are different everywhere and the adjuster who writes your car could come up with something different, DO NOT USE MY NUMBERS AS AN ACTUAL ESTIMATE !! i simply wrote what i could see in pictures. but all in all i hope i could be of some help and if you have any questions ill do what i can to be of assistance... also and i know this wears off quickly but its good that noone got seriously hurt and things could have been a lot worse. but keep us posted and best of luck

 

Its totalled!.. I had a Matrix XRS and got into an accident and they totalled it. I had frame damage in the rear that totalled $12,000+ and the car was worth $18,000+ with 11,000miles fully loaded. I heard with foreign cars, the metal tends to bend back after frame work?.. So you might have problems in the long run.. plus the resale value will be almost nothing! You should hope they total it.

 

Hey Guys,

Finally got all my estimates done...Total Loss.

The car had over $15,000 in damages. Insurance just issued me a check for $25,600. Which is what they thought the value of a 2005 tsx was....I guess TSX's really hold their value!