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Originally Posted by Face_Plant
What about it makes you think it's totaled? The accident really wasn't as bad as the car makes it look. I was the only person injured, and all I got was a bruise on my neck/shoulder from the seatbelt. Cars nowadays seem to just disintegrate at the slightest impact...
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They're designed to crumble to absorb crash energy and save the people inside... watch crash test videos of cars from the 70's vs modern ones.
As for the damage, the rear 1/4 panel is one piece that includes the outer a pillar and goes all the way forward to the fender on the bottom. That alone is a really expensive repair to remove the old panel and put the new one on. Add in all the other damaged panels, and what the cars are actually worth, and it doesn't take much to write it off.
Having one damaged fender replaced, with blending to adjacent panels, is about $1600 Canadian. The bare fender alone is like $450 Canadian for the unpainted panel. That's a single bolt on panel with zero other damage.
You need a fender, front bumper, rear bumper, trunk, tail light, the whole 1/4 panel, lower rad support, maybe a subframe, etc, then basically painting the whole car.