My Pilot has an accident, hit on left side badly, but the car still runs goid. I’d like to drive it for another two year. If insurance let my car totled, can I get it back and repaired and drive again? What to do to keep the title valid and registered next year? Thanks for sharing information!stron…

Thanks everyone! I will be going to the insurance pointed Bodyshop to get an estimate next Monday. I will update here then.

You should check your state’s DMV web site to see what the requirements are for title and registration. If it has to pass a safety inspection, you may be out of luck, depending on how much damage there is. Since you are asking this, your insurer probably told you that the Pilot is totaled. I’d take …

Is that the same as Teetotaler-ed ?

The reason I’d like to keep my car is that it run good with new tires in it, and it just passed inspection and annual registration last month. The accident just caused door dents. Can I ask insurance company not to total it and just pay me some money, and keep drive it until next inspection and reg…

You have not told us the year/mileage of your Pilot, which would help us decide if it was likely that “just a couple of door dents” would total it out. If it’s a 1998 Pilot with 300,000 miles, yeah, it’s totaled. If you just bought it new last year, it’s not (unless the airbags deployed. Then all be…

If the vehicle is totaled but you wish to keep it, tell your insurance company you wish to retain salvage of the vehicle. Your insurance company will then deduct about 20% from the agreed totaled value of the vehicle and you keep it. I’ve done this a few times when my vehicle was totaled but still…

May vary by state but here in OK and once in CA I kept a couple of cars which were declared a total. Fixed 2 here and parted the one in CA out; at least what there was to part… If the doors are the only damage and they are not crushed into too badly I would not seeing this as a total. The easiest…

Left passenger door needs to be replaced, driver’s door has small dent. The frame under passenger door dented a bit. Car has 150k miles on it and it’s 2006 year. Thanks!!

KBB’s private value is 5k, it’s trade-in is 2k by KBB. I may consider to get it back from insurance and trade-in to dealer when I buy a new one, if dear can take it for $2k. Thanks.

What if my car is totled?

Maintenance/Repairs

shadowfax June 5, 2020, 5:04pm 11

I’m guessing that’s totaled. If you’re lucky the car’s worth about 3500 bucks (I don’t know where you got 5k, dealer retail is less than that), and it’ll probably take more than that to fix it.

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