Do you guys think is totaled? :(
 

Hey guys long time lurker around this forum. Always learning something new about our cars here anyways the day that I thought would never come is upon me I got t-boned by a Dodge Avenger last week ant the damage on my car seems pretty extensive, air bags and everything deployed on the passenger side of the car. The lady that hit me left the scene but luckily not before a Good Samaritan took her plates (I should buy this lady lunch). I guess I'm looking for your opinions what do you Guys think.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...1544502b93.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...88f0e2b3ba.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...836fca44f9.jpg


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Yep! Air bags deployed and damage repair costs beyond the value of the car.
Will be a hell of a bargain for somebody as a salvage vehicle though since it doesn't appear any of the mechanicals were touched.

Wild ass guess from pictures is that it would take over 15k to fix that.

Yeah car only has 17000 miles on it too :( all stock was waiting until 50k for mods



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Well you could buy it back, fix it and mod now with the difference in the insurance money or just wait for the next one to hit 50K and do it.

If it gets totaled I might buy an sti . I loved the Frs I just wished it had a little more room and power


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Yeah, unfortunately with the airbags and damage, it's very likely totaled. Sorry to see it, but hope you're OK. The car can be replaced.

Yeah, thank you. It was my first major accident and it wasn't even my fault she came out flying out of a parking lot and failed to yield to coming traffic. But you are right the car is only material and can be replaced I can't lol


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It'll be close but I don't think it's totalled. Not all the airbags went off and unless there's hidden unibody damage (if there is- all bets are off, it's totalled) it's only 2 body panels and a door (and the door may even be salvageable).

The only thing that makes me think it's totalled is that flat tire. Why would a tire be flat for a collision with a door? There may be damage up in the wheel well we can't see?

Ehh, when the airbags go off it's very likely the car is going to be totaled.

You could get an STI or a new BRZ/86.

Sorry about the accident man, and I'm glad someone was able to get her plates. But if I were you, I'd invest in a dash cam with some of that insurance money ;)

I think because the damage can be seen going all the way up to the wheel well, it's likely the car struck the wheel/tire as well. The rear quarter, door, and fender all show damage, and virtually any car on the road is plenty bigger than ours even in profile, so it wouldn't surprise me if she hit his wheel as well. Hits to the side unfortunately don't often turn out well. When you bend a car that way, especially one built with materials as light as ours is, it's tough to bend them back and have them be the same.

Update: just heard back from the insurance the adjuster came out and said that the car is very repairable that there is no damage to the mechanical part of the car, we are sending it to the dealer to see what they say now. More bad news is that she has a 10k limit for collision so if my car repairs are going to be more than. 10k my dads insurance is going to have to come into play but apperently I was not a listed driver under his insurance so they are making a big deal out of that. I was under the impression that car insurance follows the car not the driver is this correct?


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My insurance covers the driver, not the car.

Insurance is indeed impacted by who is driving if that driver is a regular in that car. It could be a problem for you.
I am still pretty convinced that once the dealer looks closer that it will be a write off. That rocker panel is an expensive repair and the airbags alone could chew up almost half the $10K.

Depends on whether you are an 'occasional' driver or a family member driving the car regularly (particularly if you are under 25).

For example, with my insurance company the insurance rate on the FR-S is based on my age/record even though I have two sons in my household, on my insurance, under the age of 25. That is because they have their own car where they are listed primary driver.

If they were listed as primary driver of the FRS, or did not have their own car, the insurance on the FRS or MomHawk's Mustang would be substantially more.

If they were driving my car (which is covered) but the insurance company determined they were really the primary driver of the FR-S, then the company could deny the claim.

So, yes the insurance coverage follows the car, but the rate charged for the insurance is based on the primary driver.

Not saying that is your situation, but I'm pretty sure if my 19 year old wrecked my FR-S, the insurance company would be within their rights to ask for some sort of verification I had not been committing insurance fraud by playing around with who drives what to avoid higher rates.

Probably got towed over some debris. The whole door mech will be toast and more trouble to fix than it is worth. That is a whole new door there.

There is zero sign of damage on either wheel and the dents in the panels don't even come close to any structure. The bigger concern I have is that crumpled rocker panel since that could very well have snapped some welds up inside.

@Tcoat got a ninja post on the insurance rates in while I was being long-winded...so what he said!

I think your detailed explanation trumps my one line "Ya you may be screwed" post though.

That car looks repairable to me, but I'm no expert. None of the glass broke, which tells me the impact wasn't hard enough to damage anything further in. The flat tired could be caused by the lateral movement breaking the bead. It's happened to me on the track. Tire was fine, just dirty.

The insurance company or you are going to have to go after her to collect.

All I'm saying is it is possible that the wheel or tire was hit because you can see that the hit went all the way up to the rear of the wheel well on the fender, so the Avenger could have made contact with the tire/wheel. Didn't say it was definite based on any perceived damage to the tire or wheel aside from the tire looking pretty flat. As you said, the rocker panel may have been pretty damaged from the hit, so I guess we just have different ways of saying the car may be bent. These cars don't really strike me as the type to be hit and survive. They're light, and the body panels are light. They'll get hit and protect you as an occupant, but at the cost of themselves. I could be wrong, but I never claimed to know it all or be an expert.

Nailed it! They are indeed self sacrificing little guys. You look at some of the cars that guys walked away from and just know that if that had been something from the 60s or 70s they would have been nothing but a thin paste inside the car.

First off, I hope that you are ok and there were no injuries.

The bad news should be for her in this situation. If the other driver is at fault in this situation they are responsible to cover the damages that they caused whether it is 10k or 100k. What they are liable for has nothing to do with the amount of insurance coverage that they have but the amount of damage that they have caused. This persons insurance will only cover so much, that is true, but you still have the right to go after them personally to cover the repair costs to your car. I don't want to come across as sue happy but I would consider it an option for a valid debt.

Your dad's insurance may not want to pay for an under-insured driver if their customer was not at the wheel but the other driver is still responsible for the damage.

Ever wonder why many home owners carry more insurance than the required minimums? A home is an asset that can be leined in the event they owe a debt.

what is the dashcam going to do exactly when it is pointing forward and he got t-boned? i get the feeling most people that always say get a dashcam have never actually used one and learned of its real world limitations.

he won't be able to get the plate number...at least it will only show his insurance that he wasn't at fault resulting in the car crash but that is about it

Thanks for all the info guys I really appreciate it. I'll keep you updated once the dealer lets me know what's going on. Today when I drove the car to get into the tow truck I felt like it was unbalanced a little shaky like the suspension was Lower on one side it could of just been me idk. We will have to wait and see what they say


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Obviously it wont save him from the crash, but it will EASILY prove that someone HIT him. Also, dash cams are getting pretty good with resolution and picture quality. The one I have shoots in 2560x1440p (i.e almost DOUBLE the amount of pixels in a traditional 1080p). That thing can pick up licence plates from a good 20-30 feet away.

But this is besides the point, dash cams are used to simply prove you're not at fault. They also some in super handy in his situation where someone actually fled the scene, which is a criminal offense in most cases mind you, if he had a dash cam and there were not witnesses, there's a possibility it could have caught the make/model/color of the car. Which is incredibly useful to the police.

And they're like a hundred bucks dude, there's no reason not to have one....unless you hate technology.

*EDIT* if anyone is interested, this is the camera I have. Check out some youtube reviews if you're skeptical of the quality. - https://www.amazon.com/SpyTec-A119-L...ds=spyetc+a119

I remember four years ago when my brother got t-boned in his old BMW in a parking lot by a huge Jeep. When they took it in to the dealership they originally said that it could be easily repaired as it seemed to just be the door that had been damaged, but just two days later they called back and said that the damage was more extensive than they predicted and the car was indeed totaled. Most of the time when mechanics do a first-time damage diagnosis they just eyeball it and rely on their assumptions which are almost always wrong. Never trust a mechanic's judgement when he uses phrases like "it looks like...", or "it seems to me...".

Not saying you should lose hope or anything but they probably haven't even removed the panels yet and looked at the frame.

Same thing happened to me with my old car. Got rear ended at a light, completely plowed. From the outside everything looked pretty OK aside from the bumper cover being scuffed and having pieces of his headlight glass stuck in it. The only slight indicator was that my trunk lid no longer sat perfectly flush. The trunk lid popped open when I opened it later, like it was barely hanging onto the latch, and my trunk mat was floating in space being supported by my spare tire. The spare tire well had gotten punched in by the hit, and there's no way you'd know that from the outside. The adjuster thought the same way, as I just happened to bump into him when I went to the salvage yard it was brought to to get my plates back. He said "it really doesn't seem that bad. Not much damage". Popped open the trunk and lifted the mat for him to see, and got a "Oh...Well, that changes things. Yeah, we're probably going to total it." That cursory outside look definitely doesn't tell all just because the car doesn't have pieces hanging off it.

It gets harder and harder to guess from a quick look what damage will be a write off as the cars depreciate as well. As the cars go down in value the prices of the repairs do not. Many that were repaired 2 years ago would now be written off for the exact same damage since the costs are closer to the value of the car.