JeffKeryk

Wow, sorry about the loss of your car. Stuff happens. As others have said, you will likely be better off with another car.

peasodos

iTrader: (1)

I had minor damage on the hood of my car from someone backing into it. I had to bring it back to the body shop 3 times because the paint job had issues. They even ended up fully repainting my fenders because they messed up the blend job. Even after all that paint is only 95%, normal people won't notice but I can point it out.

Your damage is so extensive, not to mention the damage you can't see, even if insurance doesn't total it:

• It will take a long time to repair, supply chain issues on parts may delay
• Your not going to have a clean title anymore, cars value will drop
• Your car will not be 100% of what it was before
• Taking the chance of having other issues down the road related to this accident

The whole process will be another headache/stress in the end you will wish they just totaled the car and you bought another GS that wasn't in an accident. Most likely insurance company will save you the headache and total it.

jgscott

iTrader: (1)

The key would be in the Trunk area. Front sides are easy fix. A side truck wrap can bend the trunk floor and other. That's not something by code you fix. The Fix is to cut the whole back end off and reweld a new whole back end. That usually ends, up making the cost beyond the value percentage. I would not want that done to my car. The other problem is Body shops know the Big Insurance check game. They estimate at min then take apart call the adjuster and get approval to start repair, then the total can equal 2.5 times the estimate.

I would just work on maxing the estimate payout check if totaled. Even if they wrote a below total estimate I would tell the adjuster, now you know that estimate to not total, is going to at least double.

lorenzi323

Peasodos: I completely see your point of view and it makes sense. It’s just difficult letting go after having the car for 7 years and meticulously keeping it clean with low mileage.

AJLex19

@lorenzi323 sorry to see that - hope everyone was ok. It looks like a lot of damage overall and I agree with everyone above mentioning it might be smarter to get the most you can from it money-wise and move forward with another GS. I know prices are inflated right now and it might feel like its better to repair but personally, i'd want to get into another GS after seeing the damage.

CottageChz

I’ll preface this by saying I’m not an expert. But at a quality auto body shop that fixes it the right way, that looks totaled to me. I had less damage than that above my passenger side rear wheel, rear wheel, and rear door a few years ago and it totaled my car that was valued around $20,500 at the time. The law here says damage exceeding 50% of the car’s value = totaled. I wanna say the repair estimate was around $17k.

lorenzi323

@AJLex19 Thanks for the input and I’m looking forward to see what options are presented to me.

lorenzi323

@CottageChz Thanks for your insight and sorry about your car as well. At this point, I’m just waiting to see how it all plays out.

Lfosse

I recently had the rear bumper replaced at Sewell Lexus on my 2017 GS350 Fsport and it was 13k and much 'cleaner' damage than this so thinking this could easily be considered totaled. Mine was hit while parked and essentially tore off the bumper. Sorry this happened to you, I know how you feel.

CMK

Best of luck. It'd be a shame to take it off the streets for good.

lorenzi323

Thanks. The car was just taken in today for inspection so I’ll see what they say.

lorenzi323

Indeed but we’ll see. Waiting for the inspection results.