Deer hit my car

Not sure of the questions but glad you are alright

 

Vince3151,

Well first of all, Glad your Safe! That's most important.

Now for the Car...Insist on only Genuine Toyota Parts as replacement at the Delaership. Use a Toyota Dealership.

If the Venture Shield was in place at time of accident I would insist to the Insurance that it be replaced. Now is the time to look or get a copy of the receipt and when installed. That you may need since it was not part of the original car, but an aftermarket installation.

They should replace your HID with HID, like for like, no substitution.
You can make sure it's specified on the estimate.

Also you will need a rental car so get that in the quote to submit to your insurance. You won't be able to drive your car for 3-5 days while it's be repaired at minimum.

Good Luck!

 

The film may or may not be covered by your insurance policy. Was it listed on a rider? Not all insurance companies consider the film to be "part of the car". If the headlight assembly doesn't come with a bulb they may use your old one. As already mentioned, you have to approve the repairs & the shop. Selecting a good shop is more important than going to a dealer just because they are a dealer. Not all dealers have their own body shops.

 

First thing - Glad you're ok. You can always get another car, but you can't get another You!

Not sure how your insurance works over there so I won't even attempt to answer other than to say hope it all goes well.

 

I went through this a year ago when my Prius was 6 months old.
sure enough they wanted to hand me a check within 2 hours of the incident.
I refused the check as my collision shop had not even seen the car yet.
A claims adjuster came to where I worked!

They also tried to "steer" me to one of their "approved" shops.
When an insurance company approves a shop, it means they will work favorably to save the insurance company money.

They wanted to use an after market fender, and a refurbished headlight assembley.
They were nickle and diming my collision shop.
AS for the headlight assembley, I would have accepted that if they would have given me a written guarantee that it would continue to match the other headlight as long as a new one would.
Not a chance.
I did get it fixed though, from my shop, to my approval.

Years ago, we had a Subaru that was hit by another car, their fault.
Car had the Subie for 2 months, and when I checked on it, there were some things they had no intention of fixing to my satisfaction, straightening the pinshweld below the rocker, and removing the dent in the unibody underneath the car. They never thought I would look!

Good Luck!

 

who hit who??
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. but anyway. glad you are ok. as far as parts replacement. will be Toyota parts. dont think there is any other option. now you might get used or reconditioned parts and as long as they are body parts that should be fine

 

Twice...One was alive and one was dead. The dead one caused more damage.

 

First, congratulations on surviving without personal injuries. As long as you have your life and health, the other things are not so important - its just money.

I think they will cover the shield if it was originally listed. Was it in the original invoice? Did you tell the ins company when you first get insurance.

I had a 4 year old Lexus that went to an approved body shop. Got all new Lexus parts. I used AMICA as my insurance co - highly rated by a consumer magazine. I think it depends on your insurance co. Some companies have good price and others are good with consumer magazines.