Unfortunately this past Monday 6/23/08 I was in a terrible car accident but luckily walked away from the scene without even a scratch. The short story involves another car, a curb, a chain linked fence and a shed house. Lets just say each one of the above won and I lost.

Anywhooos, I just wanted to ask everyones opinion on whether they think the car is totaled or not. The auto body guy basically said "you can tell your insurance company its totaled". But as we all know, its not that easy. The adjuster from the insurance company is going to come out and look at it sometime next week.

I have no patience in these issues so I took the auto body guys word for it and put a hold on a 2008 IP G35xS in the meantime. So i'm gonna miss my 07 baby but if everything works out, I should have a new and improved baby in no time. So take a look at the pictures and see what you guys think...

 

Wow, great that you walked away.

Did the airbags go off? It looks like they did and I would assume they did. Those are a ton to replace. Also looks like you might have a bent frame.

I'm no expert at all but I would think if the bags went off and the frame is bent, it's probably gone.

 

Yea I guess I should have mentioned that. The drivers front and side curtain airbags went off. In addition, when I went through the chain linked fence, a metal rod was lodged underneath the car. The tow people had a lot of difficulty getting the car on the truck bed as the metal rod would not budge. They finally had to saw off the metal rod but they sure as hell tried very hard with it still lodged under. So my guess is, there might be considerable damage to the undercarriage also.

 

totalled....sorry

 

Glad to see the G kept you safe.


So I have to ask, what's the long story on this?

 

totaled... well I hope for your sake, would you want that to be repaired for you to drive in again

 

sorry to hear. i'm not an expert, but if that was my car i'd sell it to the scrap yard or ebay it and buy a new one. 2009 model preferably!!! =D

 

I'd guess frame damage, engine/tranny damage, airbags are gone - totaled. Which should be a good thing? Would hate to drive that after it's repaired.

 

wow im sorry to hear that, if i had to guess i would definatly say the car is totaled, but im glad to hear your ok.. good luck with everything!

 

at least you walked away from that! but sry it does look totalled

 

Doesn't the insurance company own it when they pay you?

 

Glad you came out scratch free!

Can you take the stock rims if they are still in good shape? hehe make them your winter rims! if you have snow where you are that is..

 

i think it'll def' be totaled.. sry for the wreck.. but i am sure glad you walked away from it.. makes me feel good about our cars just in case something does happen..

 

Sorry to hear that and i'm glad you safe from that serious accident.
It is totalled.

 

that looks pretty fvcked up to me.

Deff should be totaled.

But to make sure you might wanna take a sledge hammer to it.