Totaled or repairable? Acura TL 2004
#41
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Wow... to car...
#42
Well right off the bat I see a new fender, 2 doors, a rear quarter panel, rear & front bumper and 2 or 3 airbags. A quarter panel plus the labor alone to install is alot, airbags are $$thousands. Keep in mind installing new doors takes alot of labor too, everything has to be swapped over from the original doors to the new. I'm sad to say it is a total loss, since its an 04' the car probably has nearly 80,000 miles or more, plus its 13 years old now, not really a high value. Let the insurance company total it out & pay you the value.
#48
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The first pic was my car after I got rear ended by a chevy s-10 at about 20mph. .. His tow hooks punched a hole in the bumper. Bent the trunk lid a bit. Damaged the honeycomb plastic within the bumper. Insurance estimated $2000 to fix it.
The other two was me getting bumped by someone who ran a stop sign in a POS taurus... Insurance estimated $5000. Thats close to 50% of the value of the car.
If it was 75% of the value of the car it would've been written off.
Its really easy to get a car written off. Just as a modest estimate, your car may cost around 25 G's to fix. Including paint. That alone may cost 5 to 6 G's. 10 If you want it to be the original paint. That includes deconstruction of the car to make sure the panels are being painted individually. Keep in mind this would bring it back to an almost original state. Almost...
The other two was me getting bumped by someone who ran a stop sign in a POS taurus... Insurance estimated $5000. Thats close to 50% of the value of the car.
If it was 75% of the value of the car it would've been written off.
Its really easy to get a car written off. Just as a modest estimate, your car may cost around 25 G's to fix. Including paint. That alone may cost 5 to 6 G's. 10 If you want it to be the original paint. That includes deconstruction of the car to make sure the panels are being painted individually. Keep in mind this would bring it back to an almost original state. Almost...
#49
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Well right off the bat I see a new fender, 2 doors, a rear quarter panel, rear & front bumper and 2 or 3 airbags. A quarter panel plus the labor alone to install is alot, airbags are $$thousands. Keep in mind installing new doors takes alot of labor too, everything has to be swapped over from the original doors to the new. I'm sad to say it is a total loss, since its an 04' the car probably has nearly 80,000 miles or more, plus its 13 years old now, not really a high value. Let the insurance company total it out & pay you the value.
#50
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Well right off the bat I see a new fender, 2 doors, a rear quarter panel, rear & front bumper and 2 or 3 airbags. A quarter panel plus the labor alone to install is alot, airbags are $$thousands. Keep in mind installing new doors takes alot of labor too, everything has to be swapped over from the original doors to the new. I'm sad to say it is a total loss, since its an 04' the car probably has nearly 80,000 miles or more, plus its 13 years old now, not really a high value. Let the insurance company total it out & pay you the value.
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#53
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whats the story OP... fess up.
edited: post 8, it was a cow.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2295062
Last edited by HEAVY_RL; 01-12-2013 at 09:32 AM.
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#56
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whats the story OP... fess up.
edited: post 8, it was a cow.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2295062
#58
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its done. look like OP slide side way then hit something like small shrubs and then end up in a ditch.
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