8K??? You must be looking at different pics. That's totaled. OP, glad your ok. Looks like the car protected you well. Good luck.
I'm surprised that wasn't more than 10k worth of damage. Sorry bout the accident. It always sucks.Don’t mean to highjack your thread but I too had an unfortunate situation with my Civic.
Back on Nov 13 I was trying to get on the highway and the entry to get on the damn thing goes from two lanes down to one. So I’m speeding up but there’s a truck next to me not letting me over. Now on this particular entry point there is an “island” just to the right which splits off as sort of a median between the entry road to get on the interstate and another that leads to a one way street that leads into a neighborhood. This thing is a disgrace because if it wasn’t there I could have had enough time to brake and let the other by since he wasn’t going to stop for me.
Anyway we both were fighting for the same piece of road, I got squeezed out, hit the curb of the island with my right rear, slid over and slammed the left side curb of the on ramp, and jumped back over the right side curb on the on ramp.
Left front of car is a wreck, left side airbags deployed and my rear suspension thrown all out of whack.
I’m due to get my car back possibly late next week. My estimate was already at $14K and I hoped it would be totaled but it wasn’t the case. This is following up my car getting obliterated by $10K in hail damage during the spring (thanks, Oklahoma).
My poor car has had it rough this year
Just to clarify, the estimate for the damage in the pictures above is at $14K.
That looks similar to the damages of my car, except on my car the front passenger side and front wheel took most of the hit. But I'm not sure if the lower body frame of my car took any hit, from the pictures, it only has some few scratches. Don't know if that will be a deciding factor in this case. I just hope it's a total loss. I really don't have time to wait for the repairs and definitely won't feel safe driving around in this car even after the repairs. Considering this car is FWD and the amount of damage on my right wheel, I doubt it'll be the same.
Yeah, seriously...I wonder how many parts you can get away with in such a scenario...How much for those headlights?
If you notify insurance and they see the vehicle, you can discuss that with the insurance company but I wouldn't take a thing off the car if they have seen it. Second, if they haven't seen it and the adjuster shows up to inspect a t-bone and there are no headlights in the car...well, be prepared to file a police report and pray they don't find the lights in your possession.
They are valuing the car by what it sits at now, so removing anything would not be a smart idea without asking about their policy on it.
