My whiteout got backed into Saturday and I'm just starting to deal with the insurance company and I will definitely be going for diminished value. There are not a lot of our cars out there and it will always be on car fax that the car was wrecked. My body shop gave me a person to call to help figure a value.

Should talk to your CPA as well. My understanding is that any unpaid DV is tax deductible as long as the estimate is performed by a licensed appraiser, but I am not a CPA.