Try to Get a Property Damage Estimate Even If Your Vehicle Is a Total Loss

It is important to obtain a property damage estimate on your vehicle after a car accident.  If your car has been damaged, make sure you get a property damage estimate for your vehicle, maybe even two.  Take it to a shop, a dealership, wherever you want to take it and make sure you get a detailed property damage estimate.

Sometimes people say, “Well it was a total loss.”  Well, a total loss doesn’t really mean much except that the value of the car was less than what it cost to fix the car.  So if you have a $1,000.00 vehicle, and you have $1,500.00 worth of damage to that vehicle, which isn’t very difficult to do by the way, you might have a “total loss.”  But that doesn’t really tell the attorney anything about what exactly was damaged in the automobile accident.  A detailed property damage estimate shows exactly what was damaged as a result of the accident.

Your property damage estimate is very helpful because it’ll show whether there was a any frame damage, any damage to the door frame, any damage to the axle of the vehicle, wheel alignment issues, etc., bumper support structures.  Those kinds of things, those kinds of bits of information in a property damage estimate can be very helpful to the attorney when they’re advocating for you.  So even if you’ve been told, “Oh, it’s a total loss,” see if you can get a property damage estimate nevertheless.