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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Prianista @ Apr 8 2006, 06:49 PM) [snapback]237004[/snapback]</div>

A local PCer had his 04 Prius hit in a nearly identical (as far as I can see visually) way, and the repair shop was able to make it good as new. I was very impressed by the work they did - looks great!

(it did take them a while, but I suppose it's results you want, and not speed - and this was when the 04s were still quite new, so getting parts took a while, which shouldn't be a problem now).

Dave

 

You may want to see what the insurance company is offering and take the money. I think you'll be able to buff that right out with a couple tubes of Grannies Wonder Buff compound. The nick in the back is a little deeper, so you'll have to spend a little more time with it, but overall, I think it'll come right out....



Glad you're alright and it wasn't a harder hit than it was...


It will be interesting to see how many thousand was spent on that 2 seconds of mistaken pedal identification.

 

Few years back some old guy pressed the accelerator instead of the brake and ran down some people at the street market in Santa Monica. If we had any sense at all, there'd be real driving tests, and they'd be repeated every year or three.

 

man sorry to hear about your Prius. ok i admit to knowing nothing about the nissan but its got to be an suv by the looks of the accident since its bumper completely cleared yours. sure it wasnt a suv revenge attack??

but a good thing out of this MIGHT be possible. not having the bumpers line up looks worse but may have saved the frame. body parts are relatively cheap to frame damage which in most cases, cannot be repaired.

all these accidents are making me nervous. up until the 4th, i had no collision coverage on my Prius. but hearing about all these accidents is making me nervous. (april 3rd is when 3 tickets dropped off my record making my rates 70% lower) so i added a $250 deductible package. hopefully, that wont hex me into getting into an accident.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Apr 9 2006, 09:32 AM) [snapback]237122[/snapback]</div>

They've tried that many times here in Florida, but hte friggin AARP is such a large voter population that any such measure gets shot down immediately. Any attempts to get a license away from a 90 year old is unreasonable to them, even though he can't even see the front of his own car!



As far as the car is concerned, you have a right to choose any repair shop you want. Every insurance company has its "preferred" repair shops. All that means is that hte shop gets more business and the insurnace company gets a cut in the prices. You scratch my back...

Don't fall for it. SOme insurance companies are better than others, so feel it out. First get the estimate from their shop, and ask what parts they'll be using, then get estimates from one that the dealer recommends. Better yet, use your dealers shop if they have one.

THe insurance compnay cannot prevent you form using an actual Toyota repair shop.

 

My guess is thats totalled. I certainly would fight for it to be totalled if it were my car.

But everyone else is right, you have the right to go to any shop you want, and they MUST use OEM parts if the vehicle is less than 7 years old.

 

So sorry to hear that the verdict on your still-new baby was "totalled". Hopefully the settlement will help cover, if not entirely cover, the cost of your replacement 2006 Prius.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Prianista @ Apr 20 2006, 03:42 PM) [snapback]242926[/snapback]</div>

If you are willing to share, how did the insurance company come up with a value for you? If your purchase was this year, how was the value of the tax credit taken into account?

 

Sorry about your car being totalled. Hopefully your settlement will cover almost everything for your new Prius.