In some cases its better if it is totalled, because now(unless he has a 2nd car) could be without a car for an extended period of time. Most insurance companies only cover x amount for rental reimbursement and if he's waiting on a part that can only be found via junkyards it could be a while ie weeks or months before they can find one.

Hopefully it all works out, good luck.

-Bill

find someone parting a car or a cheap roller

Just a heads up next time you look for an insurance quote: insurance companies don't use KBB, since it overprices most cars by @ least $3,000. www.nada.com is what most if not all insurance companies use to determine if the car is less to repair or write off.

It's also a great site to use when you're searching for a car :) the previous owner of my car wanted 15k, we got her down to 12.5k cuz of NADA ^_^

yeah they mostly use nada and red book. rental usually ends when the check is cut.
hopefully u can find ur part asap so u can get her back together again!! :)

First order of business after you get it fixed, do a 4X4 delete mod with some lowering springs, damn it sits high!

not to be an ass but if you listened to me about how no one makes that fender anymore when i posted on june 21st, probably could have saved you some time

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I really couldn't save any time by looking earlier for a quarter panel because I didn't really know how I was going to go about getting it fixed at that point. It doesn't matter though because my body shop just got a quarter panel in for my car and it goes in for repair first thing on Monday.

About the car rental stuff, my insurance company will only cover $20 a day. Since I'm under 25 they also wanted to charge me some insane fees plus I would be renting a stupid chevy aveo. I'd rather have my mom drop me off at work lol.

Once I get it back it's definitely getting lowering springs asap if I can figure out how to do them myself. That was the next thing to do since I had just bought those wheels for it.