Xavier Chance

My Driver side Tire hit the Driver side tire of a parked car. Bounced my wheel hub into my fender well


2004 TL ASPEC
18inch wheels
Manual 6speed

Hey trying to get an " any and all possible scenarios" deal before i pick her up from impound. Like whats the best case and whats the worse case

thoiboi

Body shop will tell you best and worst case



can't help you much with that grainy of a pic.. likely totalled though

horseshoez

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I'm thinking it is worser than better. Sorry, nice car.

thoiboi

not anymore

subinf

I would be very surprised if it was not totaled.

01acls

Best case scenario... Totalled

Worse case scenario... Rebuilted

Jackass

Sorry....but she done. In a car of this age, the bags firing is probably the nail in the coffin. Add on top of that the front end damage, fender, door, skirt, wheels, suspension, and who knows what else....she done. The value of these cars isn't up there these days so it won't take much to be declared a loss. Only the body shop and insurance company will know for sure what the final say is.

BillMFD3

Best case no one got hurt

agree the car is toast

nfnsquared

Sorry, buh-bye.

But in for the story on how you managed to drive into a parked car...

horseshoez

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"...Whiskey bottles and brand new cars Oak tree, you're in my way..."

I'm thinking the parked car jumped out in front of the OP's TL; this is the same scenario which happened to me back in 1998 when my house jumped out in front of a new S-Class Mercedes driven by the owner's 17 year old son (who'd gotten his Driver's License the day before). Fortunately, while the S500 was toast, none of the five teenagers in the car were hurt; my house was saved because the car, having lost most of the right front suspension after hitting one of my pine trees, managed to dig up the piping for the sprinkler system which kind of served as an arresting wire like on an aircraft carrier, and as such, stopped about five feet from my house.

twokexlv6coupe

Talk about downplaying the situation. I was only expecting OP to have ran over a parking curb @ like 20mph pushing the wheel back in the wheel well.


Not the ENTIRE FRONT END DESTROYED.

Yea.... she's gone.

thoiboi

Abe_Froman

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Totaled without a question. Airbag deployment guarantees it on a car this old.

TVL65

Airbag went off, that alone is $3000. Factor in the suspension damage and body she's easily totaled.

gatrhumpy

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Bye bye birdie.

csmeance

Totalled....
New dash, airbags, bumper, headlamps. core support, subframe, trans mounts + any cracked components like axle, endlinks, tie rods, etc.

Looking at a few thousand in labor alone + parts....

Your car is worth 3K in clean condition AT THE MOST.

You can buy it back, part it out and get some money back vs just getting a check cut (if you have full coverage). Or buy parts from junk yards and parts recyclers and hope you can fix it at home and find a shop that's willing to do the necessary work. Most places wouldn't touch a car like that unless you pay cash upfront.... it's 15yrs old and not worth much if you don't pay the bill.